Benefits of pregnancy and childbirth

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Benefits of Pregnancy

Physical benefits

• Reduced risk of breast cancer

• fetomaternal microchimerism

Fetomaternal microchimerism is the process of incorporating fetal stem cells into the mother's own body and "may be considered a naturally occuring stem cell therapy." (Seppanen 2013) For example, a 2015 study published in the journal Circulation Research showed that fetal stem cells were activated to repair damaged cardiac cells in the mother's heart and that the process involved fully integrating the fetal cells into the mother’s heart.