Tori Freeman’s Reviews > Showing: What Pregnancy Tells Us about Being Human > Status Update

“During gestation mother and fetus each transfer cells to the body of the other [to be retained for up to decades after the child is born]…Microchimerism is not thought to be limited to just the bi-directional exchange of mother and fetal cells: cells from older siblings and even maternal grandmother cells might also be transferred to the fetus.”

“To believe that God gives every person a soul, directly and individually, is to believe that each pregnant woman is a host to a kind of visitation from God, is honored as audience and collaborator, a watcher at a holy place, attending God doing something new.”