The 19th century "doctrine of maternal impression" held that a woman's thoughts and experiences could physically mark her child. Someone born with a strawberry shaped birthmark must have had a mother ...

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Wanjala was not having it after scans showed her mother had been living with only one kidney. She made the discovery after ...