Re: LOST: Pregnant Women Dying

On Mar 7, 8:38 am, Fred Ellis <fkel...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Darren Delgado wrote:
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> > On Mar 6, 11:37 pm, "yng...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
" <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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> > >
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> > > > On Mar 6, 10:09?pm, "yng...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
" <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
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> > 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.
>
> It is not the third trimester.  Let me repeat, it is not the third
> trimester.  Juliet said is it was the SECOND trimester when the mothers
> immune system starts to attack the fetus.  If you don't believe me,
> rewatch that scene again.

Sorry.  I was just assuming that the person I was replying to was
right since I didn't remember that myself.  But, it really doesn't
change the substance of my post, maybe the second trimester is when
the heightened immune system is alerted to the fetus as a threat.