And vice versa. I think this is why I dreamed of my biological Mother dying on July 28,1987 and believed she had died despite never meeting her or knowing her. I was deeply sad and felt it in my heart. Found out this week, she died on Aug 2,1987. The female body is a miracle.
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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@GuGi263 Let's see the artwork!! Great post! They are so cute! Hippos are how I got my first job in LA on the Paramount lot. The movie Congo was filming a hippo scene and I stopped to watch the hippos. Frank Marshall was there, talked to him, ended up doubling Laura Linney.
@ArmandDAngour All I ever wanted to do was race cars and play football. My adopted parents were Engineers. Turns out, my bio parents were a race car driver and an NFL Quarterback. I am a girl., btw.
@MrAndyNgo Mass surveillance, social media, smartphones killed the 70s serial killer version of these guys ability to kill us and wear our skin. Trans seial killers are misogynistic power hungry men who are either pedos or latent killers. Mass murderers, pedophiles...cosplaying as women.
@harsh_words1234@LauraLoomer We can start w four years of conversations when I worked at the UN w Ambassador Munir Akham on the subject and the Ambassador from India as well. I am done w you, you are beneath my level. You are just clearly a misogynist.