Moms, you shaped your children, but the reverse is true - down to your very cells
By The Washington Post
By Abigail Tucker
Washington - If you were to look deep inside my body, beneath the dark circles and stretch marks, you would find the cells of my four children, a legacy from pregnancy living on within me for the rest of my life.
I imagine the kids behaving badly in there, much as they did at this year s Easter egg hunt, swooping about like Valkyries on a jelly bean high, throwing elbows and acquiring grass stains. In reality, though, by now these rowdy foetal cells - which cross the placenta and enter the maternal blood stream - have probably settled down and embedded in various body parts, permanently integrating with my kidneys, say, or my heart.
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