Re: LOST: pregnant women dying

On Mar 6, 11:37 pm, "yng...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Mar 6, 9:54 pm, "JK" <jksinrod*SP...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > "tdciago" <tdci...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > On Mar 6, 10:09?pm, "yng...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > Juliet said in the third trimester the immune system attacks the
> > > fetus.
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> > In a previous episode, she put it this way:
> > "The mother's body turns on the pregnancy, treats it as a foreign
> > invader."
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> > So the question is: Why does the mother's body consider the fetus a
> > foreign invader?
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> >    Because it's from another time.
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> Actually, it's long been a subject of debate why in a normal pregnancy
> the woman's body doesn't reject the embryo as foreign. And in some
> cases, that does happen and the woman miscarries. The mystery with the
> island pregnancies seems to be more a case of why does the pregnancy
> proceed normally until the third trimester, and then something goes
> wrong with the interaction between the mother's immune system and the
> fetus. Because even if this happened in reality, it wouldn't be likely
> to kill the mother, just the fetus.
> -yngver

Possibly, the Island's healing properties heighten the immune system.
This is good for curing cancer and paralysis, but it's bad for a fetus
because the immune system is suddenly too good at weeding out an
"infection".  Maybe the third trimester is when the fetus is big
enough to be considered by the body to be a threat as it starts
drawing off more and more nutrients from the mother.