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[Holly Blake @hollycurates]

Jacques Sicard for Weller Pottery

[쥐 @g06157n]

이거 정말 예뻤어요..

[david @davidefinitely]

me trying to impress fruit ninja trade

[j @rosecoloredboy]

Favorite sentence of the week

[Enigma @enigmacuration]

A selection of works by Laura Rivoiro

[dez @315dez]

Nothing to lose because nothing is mine

[vini @viniciusbapt_]

morro com o cachorro chegando pro lado pra fugir das crianças

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Researchers at Fred Hutchinson examined the brains of 59 women after death. In 63 percent of them they found male DNA, almost certainly left behind by a son. The oldest of those women was 94, and the cells were still sitting there.

Around week four or five of pregnancy, before most women have told anyone, a handful of the baby's cells cross into the mother's bloodstream. Some of them never leave. Scientists call it microchimerism, meaning you are carrying a few of another person's cells inside you. Doctors at Leiden University in the Netherlands checked organs from women who had recently been pregnant and found the baby's cells in every single one. Liver, lungs, thyroid, kidneys, bone marrow, skin, heart.

They do not sit idle. When researchers in Ireland biopsied cesarean scars from 70 women, they found the baby's cells living in the skin as ordinary skin cells, making collagen and repair proteins right at the cut. The child helped close the wound its own birth made.

At Mount Sinai, scientists tagged fetal cells with a glowing marker in pregnant mice, then damaged the mothers' hearts. The fetal cells went to the injury. They became heart muscle and the lining of blood vessels. Nobody has proven the human version yet, but doctors have noticed for years that women who develop heart failure around childbirth recover better than almost any other kind of heart failure patient.

In a study of 177 women, fetal cells appeared in the blood of 85 percent of the healthy participants and only 64 percent of the women who had a very early, non-invasive breast cancer. Nobody has worked out yet whether the cells are doing the protecting. The same cells also turn up in Hashimoto's, an immune condition that attacks the thyroid, so this is a gift with complications.

A French team looked at umbilical cord blood in 2021 and found cells belonging to the baby's grandmother in 5 of 28 samples. Cells that crossed one placenta decades earlier had crossed a second one. Three generations of women, alive in a single bloodstream.

Which means the pull a mother feels toward her child has a physical form. It sits in her liver, her heart, and often her brain, and it stays there for the rest of her life.

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[the heart @Fredward3948576]

This morning's dream took everything from me… I’ll spare you the details. I’ve actually forgotten the details. I’m not sure what occurred and what was lost but I grieve for something. Well, I feel okay. Whole, even. Quite frankly, things have never been better

[reesewitherblunt @tyinghe]

kelela shot by me on 35mm film

[Gatorade Should Be Thicker. @WinslowDumaine]

Dad sent me a card.

I feel like I'm dying.

[Julian Guba (FreakRaider) @realfreakraider]

i cant

[Pons Notification @alfonseaux]

Being in a transitional period of your life

[ari @Slingness]

Applied to the same job position for the 6th time

[Holly Blake @hollycurates]

hope you guys made it to the annual reports side of twitter this week, because this post sent me down the best rabbit hole possible!!

[LucaPonsato.eth/tez @LucaPonsatoArt]

nothing on my end.

[. @dust0fmete0rs]

i was being fr

[the heart @Fredward3948576]

Meeting new people