Hi Jonathon,
That's really interesting - especially in terms of the potential for
auto-immune disease developing postpartam - postpartum thyroiditis
being the one that I'm most familiar with. The auto immune
expression is usually seen as a rejection of the self - this
information seems to suggest that the rejection is around the issue
of life being passed on - so perhaps dis-ease around the joining of
the maternal and paternal genetic material - maybe an inability to
take the other partner fully? or an expression of the sort of
entanglement that pulls us backward instead of allowing life to flow
through us?
Certainly brings more weight to "Yes, at it's cost to me, and at
it's cost to you"
Thanks for sharing this, it is very rich for me,
Gail.
--- In ConstellationTalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Jonathan Hooton"
<jonathan@...> wrote:
about 6
I have only been part of the Constellation Talk community for
months or less so the following information may have already beenbeing
discussed. I was intrigued when a colleague mentioned, after
at a scientific conference, that fetal cells colonize the mother.So
I immediately `Googled' FETAL CELLS IN MOTHER which returned manyin
links, 2 of which I cite here for anyone to follow up:
http://www.gentlebirth.org/archives/stemCellsToMother.html
http://humupd.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/10/6/497
The second link will take you to a review paper published in 2004
Human Reproduction Update, a scientific journal.cells
It seems that fetal cells colonize the mother and viable fetal
have been demonstrated in the mother for at least 30 years. Thislive
happens whether there is a miscarriage, abortion or there is a
birth. I find there are some interesting corollaries to this:the
mother has cells of her child which contain half the mother'sgenes
and also half the father's genes. How's that for another form ofD.W.
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
titled "Multi-lineage potential of fetal cells in maternal tissue:a
legacy in reverse" published in the Journal of Cell Science volumeMoreover, a
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.
novel population of fetal cells, the pregnancy-associatedprogenitor
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
