Hot News on Pregnancy: The Womb is often Infected with Bacteria and NOT Sterile.
The placenta is an organ in uterus from where your baby gets oxygen and food as baby grows during pregnancy. For long time, doctor assumed the placenta to be sterile. But in 2014 researcher analyzed placental tissues from 320 women to find that it is commonly infected with bacteria [1]. More accurately, they found bacterial DNA in placental tissue to infer that there are bacteria present in the placenta. The research finding was very popular during that time, but some experts are still very skeptical about this conclusion.
Credit: Edgard Garrido/Reuters and image published in Nature news.
The presence of bacteria is a sign of infection and infection is what usually causes the premature birth. Surprisingly, researchers found that these microbes were also present in the placentas of women who had healthy pregnancies. This leads to the hypothesis that maybe the bacteria present in the placenta are after all good or friendly bacteria like the one present in our mouth. There is still a need of more research work to know the real significance of the womb being not sterile.
Find full news and more referenced papers on Nature news by Cassandra Willyard.
Here is a nice animation showing the development and function of placenta.
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A big f***ing lie, this is the seed they want to seed amoug people and promote artificial and controled birth of human kind! For close to 8000 years we could give birth to the children as natural as it could be and all of a suden we can't because of they stupid lies!
this is more of a discovery than a real implication to pregnancy. We do not need to worry about the bacteria present in the womb if it is a natural process.