There is a very special bond between a maternal grandmother and her grandchildren. The grandmother on the mother's side is a very important figure in children's lives for several reasons and not only from an emotional point of view.
Some people don't spend much time with grandparents, they do not live with them and may even know them poorly. Nevertheless, the bond between grandparents and grandchildren is lifelong.
Grandmothers on my mother's side have in the family a unique role: they are often considered to have more direct responsibility for their grandchildren than the other grandmother, i.e. the paternal grandmother. Its influence is also very important from a genetic point of view.
How does science explain the role and importance of the maternal grandmother?
No matter how much we are related to our grandmother on our mother's side or how many childhood memories we have of her, we linked through genes. Apparently, the genes that are passed down through the mother are directly from the grandmother. Of all the grandparents, she is the one who is most involved in our genetic makeup. Genes are not always passed on to the next generation, sometimes they are skipped. And that's supposed to be the reason they are some children look so much like their great-aunts or uncles or great-grandparents.
Sometimes there is no physical resemblance. The genetic imprint is easily visible even after signs, eyes or the way children walk. There are also internal similarities, for example bone structures, muscles or maybe even some genetic diseases.
Science explains it like this: the grandchildren were in the grandmother's womb. Namely, when the embryo is formed in the womb, it gets a larger amount of biological material than the mother. Although both parents contribute 50 percent of the embryo's genetic material, the embryo must receive nutrients from the mother in order to develop. In short: when the father is no longer involved, mom still participates.
Chilean essayist Alejandro Jodorowsky believes that physical characteristics are not inherited, but can be they also inherit the grandmother's emotional experiences on the mother's side. The egg from which the child is born carries the genes of the grandmother. According to the essayist, the feelings that the grandmother is felt during pregnancy with my mother, passed on to the daughter and thus possibly also to all future generations.
We may not know exactly what we inherited from our grandmothers on our mother's side, but their presence is or was precious, no matter how much we resemble it.
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