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"The woman’s case wasn’t a one-off. Just about every time an embryo implants and begins to grow, it dispatches bits of itself into the body housing it. The depositions begin at least as early as four or five weeks into gestation. And they settle into just about every sliver of our anatomy where scientists have checked—the heart, the lungs, the breast, the colon, the kidney, the liver, the brain."
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2024/01/fetal-maternal-cells-microchimerism/676996/
@cyrilpedia 3..2..1 till https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegony_(inheritance) shithead fans get wild. Yes there are still way more of them than I'd find comfortable.
@cyrilpedia @AnnaAnthro This reminds me of the fact that, as a woman, I’ve physically inside my maternal grandmother’s womb. At birth, female babies’ ovaries contain all the eggs she’ll ovulate in her lifetime, so while my grandmother was carrying my mom, my mom carried the egg that would one day be me.
It messed me up a bit when I learned that!