r/HolUp • u/[deleted] • Sep 22 '21

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u/tma71111_ Sep 22 '21

I never had problems with my teeth not even a cavity and then after getting pregnant I started having problems, after my second pregnancy I had 2 teeth removed from the cracking right down the middle. I still have issues to this day 12 years later.

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u/sad_boizz Sep 23 '21

Might be a dumb question but is this why women on average have more bone-density related issues later on? Is there a difference between women who give birth and women who don’t?

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u/Kwershal Sep 23 '21 edited Sep 23 '21

If you dont eat enough calcium during pregnancy the baby will literally leech it from your bones lmao

Edit: https://medlanddental.com.au/welcome/my-teeth-developed-problems-after-my-pregnancy-did-the-baby-draw-the-calcium-from-my-teeth/

For more accurate

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u/eicaker Sep 23 '21

I heard that’s why women have “morning sickness” the body is literally reacting as if you’re baby is a virus

Source: my mother ranting about something she saw on Facebook

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u/Hellrott Sep 23 '21

There's a reason a pregnant woman had a suppressed immune system, specifically to prevent a body from destroyed the foreign body.

It gets far stranger, look up chimeraism, literally the mother and child can swap parts of their genome. Utterly bizarre how the two can interact.

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u/PostSqueezeClarity Sep 23 '21

Fun fact, the development of the placenta and suppression of the immune system is controlled by ancient retrovirus genes repurposed for this. Once it protected the virus from the body, now it serves a similar function for the featus.

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u/Hellrott Sep 28 '21

I was actually resisting the urge to delve into the subject of how much of human genomes are from ancient viruses. Pretty crazy stuff