Microchimerism

My friend sends me a few pages from a book. The book is about pregnancy and discusses the term microchimerism. Microchimerism is a scientific concept that explains how the cells of a baby live inside of the mother and the baby as life goes on. So my mother is walking around with pieces of me and my Grandma is walking around with pieces of my father and I’m even walking around with pieces of my dead babies. I’ll have those pieces in me for years. The cells won’t go away like the fetus, the sac, and the heartbeat.

I become obsessed with the word. I listen to it on YouTube more than once a day. I read the…