Hi Jonathan
Thank you for sharing this information with us. It is amazing (and
completely logical) that on a cellular level we see the same patterns as on
a larger scale, e.g in constellations and in family systems: every pregnancy
has a life long effect on the mother, the father and the child. It also
makes me wonder if we could use these insights to help parents who divorce
to handle it in a more gentle way: the mother will always stay connected
with the father, if she rejects him, she rejects a part of her own
(immunesystem??) cells. I can imagine how much pain and illness could come
from that fact alone.
Something that surprises me a lot lately is that clients often/always speak
about my child instead of our child. When I notice that, I have the
other parent in my hart immediately. (= my systemic deformation!) These
articles about the fathers information in the cells of the mother give a
beautiful colour to the image. And it is medically spoken so logical that it
is surprising that we havent used this information sooner. Makes me also
think about the subject that I wrote about last year, about the epigenetics
from prof. Pembrey.
Greetings
Margreet Mossel
www.opstellingen.com <http://www.opstellingen.com/>
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[mailto:ConstellationTalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Namens Jonathan Hooton
Verzonden: donderdag 18 januari 2007 1:50
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Onderwerp: [ConstellationTalk] Fetal cells in mother
I have only been part of the Constellation Talk community for about 6
months or less so the following information may have already been
discussed. I was intrigued when a colleague mentioned, after being
at a scientific conference, that fetal cells colonize the mother. So
I immediately `Googled' FETAL CELLS IN MOTHER which returned many
links, 2 of which I cite here for anyone to follow up:
http://www.gentlebi
<http://www.gentlebirth.org/archives/stemCellsToMother.html>
rth.org/archives/stemCellsToMother.html
http://humupd. ;<http://humupd.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/10/6/497>
oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/10/6/497
The second link will take you to a review paper published in 2004 in
Human Reproduction Update, a scientific journal.
It seems that fetal cells colonize the mother and viable fetal cells
have been demonstrated in the mother for at least 30 years. This
happens whether there is a miscarriage, abortion or there is a live
birth. I find there are some interesting corollaries to this: the
mother has cells of her child which contain half the mother's genes
and also half the father's genes. How's that for another form of
bonding with both the child and the father? There are some
indications that these fetal cells have healing properties in the
mother.
Here's a abstract from a paper by Khosrotehrani K. and Bianchi D.W.
titled "Multi-lineage potential of fetal cells in maternal tissue: a
legacy in reverse" published in the Journal of Cell Science volume
118, pages 1559-63, 2005 (Diana Bianchi is one of the leading
researchers in this field):
"Fetal cells circulate in pregnant women and persist in blood and
tissue for decades post-partum. The mother thus becomes chimeric.
Factors that may influence such fetal cell microchimerism include
histocompatibility, fetal or placental abnormalities, or a
reproductive history that includes miscarriage or elective
termination. Fetal cell microchimerism is associated with some
maternal autoimmune diseases, such as systemic sclerosis. Moreover, a
novel population of fetal cells, the pregnancy-associated progenitor
cells (PAPCs), appears to differentiate in diseased or injured
maternal tissue. The cellular origin of these cells is at present
unknown but could be a hematopoietic stem cell, a mesenchymal stem
cell, or a novel cell type. Pregnancy therefore results in the
acquisition of cells with stem-cell-like properties that may
influence maternal health post-partum. Rather than triggering
disease, these cells may instead combat it."
Jonathan Hooton
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