Today is my youngest child’s birthday. As my mother used to tell me, we always carry our children in our hearts. I know this is true emotionally. Apparently it’s also true on the physical level.
Fetal cells remain to heal a mother throughout her life. shortgreenpigg.deviantart.com
Sometimes science is filled with transcendent meaning more beautiful than any poem. To me, this new research shows the poetry packed in the people all around us.
It’s now known that cells from a developing fetus cross the placenta, allowing the baby’s DNA to become part of the mother’s body. These fetal cells persist in a woman’s body into her old age. (If she has been pregnant with a male child it’s likely she’ll have some Y-chromosomes drifting around for a few decades too).This is true even if the baby she carried didn’t live to be born. The cells of that child stay with her, resonating in ways that mothers have known intuitively throughout time.
Fetal cells you contributed to your own mother may be found in her blood, bone marrow, skin, kidney, and liver. These fetal cells appear to “treat” her when she is ill or injured. Researchers have noticed the presence of these cells in women diagnosed with illnesses such as thyroid disease and hepatitis C. In one case, a woman stopped treatment against medical advice. A liver biopsy showed “thousands of male cells” determined to be from a pregnancy terminated nearly 20 years earlier. These cells helped her body recover just as fetal cells you gave your mother rush to help repair her from within when she’s unwell.
Fetal cells may influence a woman’s autoimmunity, although it’s not yet known if they are always beneficial. According to fascinating accounts in Do Chocolate Lovers Have Sweeter Babies?: The Surprising Science of Pregnancy
, the more fetal cells there are in a woman’s body, the less likely she is to have conditions such as multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis. That’s not always the case. It’s thought that sometimes a mother’s body may instead battle those cells, thus provoking autoimmune disorders. (Apparently family dynamics are complicated even at the cellular level.) There’s evidence that fetal cells provide some protection against certain cancers. For example, they’re much more prevalent in the breast tissue of healthy women than in those with breast cancer. Fetalcells are less common in women who developed Alzheimer’s disease, suggesting they provide late-life protection. Fetal cells can contribute stem cells, generate new neurons in the mother’s brain, even help to heal her heart. Her heart!Look around at your family. Any woman who has ever been pregnant, even if she miscarried so early she never knew she was with child, is likely to be a microchimera (a person who carries the cells of another person). Fetal cells have the imprint of her child’s father and his ancestry. Fetal cells can be shared from one pregnancy to another, meaning the cells of older siblings may float within younger siblings. These cells are another reminder of the ways we are connected in a holographic universe.
Overall, the presence of fetal cells in a woman’s body is associated with substantially improved longevity, with an overall mortality rate 60 percent lower than women whose bodies don’t contain such cells.
I’d like to think that my fetal cells helped my mother battle the congestive heart failure that eventually took her life. I like to consider that I carry within me my older sister’s fierce intelligence and that my talented younger brother benefits in some way from the cells of both his sisters. Knowing that I carry the cells of my four living children as well as babies I lost makes my heart ever more full on this special day.
We heal our mothers and our children heal us. Again poetry takes a back seat to nature’s awesome secrets.
This piece was originally posted on LauraGraceWeldon.com on June 12th, 2012.
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Laura Grace Weldon is an author, farm wench and relentless optimist. Read her articles, essays, and poetry at lauragraceweldon.com
Thank you. This is beautiful.
Beautiful article. I believe the science wholeheartedly explains many healings. This information is especially poinient to me at this time because I am studying to be a doula, helping mother’s to grow and care for their child.
I would also suggest that this same phenomenon is evident in that we are children of God with His DNA in each of us, in our cells.
Thank you for your study and presentat ion of this truth.
It is very interesting information . The mother will never be separated from her child as the child from the mother, Let make the best of this union.
Wow! Poetry at the cellular level – yes! Thanks, Laura for a spiritual journey. The video at the end was quite a Mother’s Day gift. Your gift to your son, as well! I see this was written almost four years ago, but the cells live on!
I have been told that I also carry some of the father’s cells for life, which is poignant when I realize how long ago we divorced and have no contact.
Do we carry some of the Father’s Cells if we lost the baby. I would like to know this since he passed away?
If this is true, then show the proves, the scientist proves, the articles, papers, references, links, etc.
You should have a scientist basament to certify this article.
Thanks.
Darkest Lord
Note from the author: “You can follow the hyperlinks included in the post sir, there are quite a few. Most are linked right to journal articles, except for the information gleaned from the book “Do Chocolate Lovers Have Sweeter Babies.”
Here are a few, directly from the links:
Cell Adhesion and Migration Cell Adh Migr. 2007 Jan-Mar; 1(1): 19-27. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2633676/
Proceeding of the National Academy of Science Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA
Vol. 93, pp. 705-708, January 1996http://www.pnas.org/content/93/2/705.full.pdf
Journal of Cell Science April 15, 2005 J Cell Sci 118, 1559-1563.http://jcs.biologists.org/content/118/8/1559.full
Oct. 1, 2007 issue of Cancer Researchhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/10/071001081654.htm
Journal reference: Circulation Research, DOI: 10.1161/circresaha.111.249037http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21185-fetus-donates-stem-cells-to-heal-mothers-heart.html#.Ud6lSvnVBtg” – Laura Grace Weldon
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