A maternal grandmother is an extremely important figure in a child's life for many reasons, and not just from an emotional point of view.
If you were lucky enough to grow up with a grandmother, then your childhood memories are probably fulfilled with wonderful, emotional associations of safety and enjoyment.
Grandmothers on my mother's side have in the family a unique role: they often have more direct responsibility for their grandchildren than the other grandmother, i.e. the paternal grandmother. Their 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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