Thank you for this. It reminded me of an article I just read and it is a MUST READ article from the Smithsonian "The Makings of a Mom." Early on I became fascinated with the discovery of Stem cells. How a certain cell form can morph into any other cell form was amazing. It is said a lot of women, when giving birth have a heart attack. However, the large number of stem cells in the fetus go to the mothers heart and literally create a new one. Some of the discoveries about childbirth are actually mind blowing.
"Every year, thousands of pregnant women and just-delivered mothers land in emergency rooms with a life-threatening type of heart failure. Symptoms include swollen neck veins and shortness of breath. Their hearts have a harder time pumping. The underlying cause of this “peripartum cardiomyopathy” is unclear, but it’s the kind of health disaster that, for other people, can end in a heart transplant, or oblivion."

"Yet fate has a different design for fledgling mothers. About 50 percent spontaneously get better, the highest rate of recovery from heart failure for any group. Some maternal hearts are practically as good as new in as little as two weeks. Adult heart tissue doesn’t rally easily, but new mothers may somehow be able to regrow heart cells the way salamanders sprout new tails."
[smithsonianmag.com]

So sweet.

Good thing the glad was there to separate them.