[HPforGrownups] pregnant animagi

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 4312

Jinx wrote:

> In most cases, I wouldn't have thought Apparating does let you take other
> people with you.  But then, a child in utero is physically attached to it's
> mother and shares a bloodstream with her.

No, the child's blood and the mother's never mix. Or they're not supposed to;
tiny bits leak over during the birth process sometimes (which are the source of
the antibody problem with the Rh factor, among other things), but there's no
regular interchange or mixing. The complex and disgusting-looking placenta is
where teeny little blood vessels come very, very close to pass nutrients,
oxygen, carbon diaoxide, and occasionally other stuff like medications and
alcohol, but a baby in utero most definitely is distinct and has all its own
systems.

Sorry, just wanted to clarify. Biology class over.

--Amanda