Children will forever be in the heart and minds of their mothers.
And, as research shows, in her liver, lungs, skin, blood vessels, thyroid gland, lymph nodes, and spinal cord!
During the pregnancy process, mom and baby are not just connected by an umbilical cord, but they literally become part of each other. Cells from baby (particularly stem cells, which are undifferentiated until they get a cue from the body to become a liver cell, a heart cell, etc.) pass through the placenta and take up residency within the mothers body.
One great things about this discovery; the baby’s stem cells have the fathers DNA, and mom’s body recognizes them as foreign. Why is this a good thing? Mom’s body stimulates and strengthens her immune system. Her body will be ‘on guard’ for defending against things such as cancer cells.
This is significant, because research shows that women who have given birth have less significance of breast cancer. Part of this may be due to the protective nature of fetal stem cells making their home in mom’s breast tissue. One study in particular found that fewer fetal cells show up in the breast tissue of women who have breast cancer than those that do not (see the research article here http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/71/1/8.full)
In an article in the winter 2011 issue of Pathways Magazine, Bruce Lipton makes reference to research studying liver regeneration. In one case, liver cells identified as male were found in a biopsy of a woman who had given birth to a boy years earlier. Her liver had regenerated itself using the stem cells that were living in her body from her son!
Baby stem cells can also take up residency in mom’s brain, and may in part explain why mothers always seems to intuitively know what is going on with their children even when they have grown and moved away.
Studies involving mice revealed stem cells from fetuses cross the blood-brain barrier and take up shop in the mother mouse brain and generate new neurons. These fetal stem cells differentiate into neurons within the mothers brain, yet still contain the DNA of the babies. Her babies cells literally become part of her own nervous system!
As you can deduce, this phenomenon must also happen in humans, and therefore we can assume that moms have their children hardwired in their brains for life. Mom and baby literally are one in the same.
The primal bond between mother and child is undeniably strong, spiritually, emotionally and as we now know, physiologically!
So the next time your mom calls just to make sure you are ok, because she ‘just felt like something was going on’ give her the benefit of the doubt! You will forever be part of her.
