[HPforGrownups] pregnant animagi

[Jinx]

No: HPFGUIDX 4687


----- Original Message -----
From: Amanda Lewanski <editor at texas.net>
To: <HPforGrownups at egroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2000 6:55 PM
Subject: Re: [HPforGrownups] pregnant animagi


> 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

Ah, right.  Sorry.  I never was any good at the sciences.  Well, it's still
physically attached though, so it's obviously not the same situation as
someone apparating while holding not someone else.

Jinx