Microchimeric sharing means that, even if the mother loses a child, she'll have a small memento of him or her secreted away inside her. Similarly, a bit of our mothers live on in all of us no matter how long ago Mom died.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age.
We know that young babies, as they become capable of moving voluntarily, will share. They will share food, for instance, with their siblings and with kids that are around. They will sooth. If they see somebody else in pain, even the youngest of toddlers will try to reach out and pat the person.
It's a little known fact that one in three family pets gets lost during its lifetime, and approximately 9 million pets enter shelters each year. That's why it's a wonderful thing to get your pet microchipped and registered with your contact information because then they can be located and the owners can track where their pets are.
My mother and father and many of my relatives had been sharecroppers.
Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.
There's nothing that symbolizes loss or grief more than a mother losing a child.
Too many mothers have lost their children, for thousands of different reasons.
Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the generations to follow.
Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.
We inherit every one of our genes, but we leave the womb without a single microbe. As we pass through our mother's birth canal, we begin to attract entire colonies of bacteria. By the time a child can crawl, he has been blanketed by an enormous, unseen cloud of microorganisms - a hundred trillion or more.