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the only condition where growing a skeleton inside you counts as good news.

means The state of carrying a developing offspring inside the body, from conception until birth.

from From Latin praegnans, meaning "with child" — built from prae- ("before") and a root possibly related to gnasci, "to be born." So the word literally carries the sense of being "before birth," a body in the waiting room of new life. It entered English in the 16th century, with "pregnancy" arriving as the noun for the condition the older adjective described.

organ shift
Internal organs literally rearrange to make room
shared cells
Baby's cells stay in mother's body for decades
extra blood
Volume rises by nearly fifty percent
heart grows
The heart enlarges to pump for two
length quirk
Officially counts from before conception even happens
for instance

kate middleton pregnancy — princess of wales pregnant with prince george in 2012, creating global media frenzy

angelina jolie pregnancy — adopted 6 children, then had biological children shiloh and knox/vivienne with brad pitt 2005-2008

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