article_snippet.sent: Expectant mums really do bloom - for being pregnant has a 'rejuvenating effect' on women, according to new scientific research.
article_snippet.sent: And for older women it could help older women feel young again, almost literally, as pregnancy helps regenerate tissue and slow down the ageing process, it added.
article_snippet.sent: Appearing to bloom is not just a cosmetic side effect of carrying a child, said medical experts for the journal Fertility and Sterility but an actual physical process.
article_snippet.sent: Pregnancy is a unique condition for the human body, said the researchers, and as a result it has to cope with two people's systems at the same time.
article_snippet.sent: For the older of the two bodies, it is as if it has been injected with a youth serum from the baby it is carrying, hence the rejuvenating process affecting the mother, it suggests.
article_snippet.sent: Because pregnancy is a unique biological model of a partially shared blood system, we have speculated that pregnancy would have a rejuvenating effect on the mother.'