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Scientists have made the remarkable discovery that cells from a baby can hide out in a mother's body, after birth. Cells from the mom also cross the placenta and enter the foetal body.  That means you've got your mom's cells inside you.  Since your mom had cells in her body from all her other pregnancies and her mom, that means you likely have cells from your older siblings, and from your grandmother, and maybe even your great-grandmother.

 

So far, scientists haven't actually seen these "grandma cells" in anyone's body. But if they exist, then it means we are all walking around with a whole family tree inside of us!

 

I do believe I like that idea.

 

(Information from https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/)

 

“...for it was You who created my inward parts;

You knit me together in my mother's womb.

 I will praise You

because I have been fearfully and wonderfully made”. (Psalm 139:13,14)