If a pregnant women receives communion

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Wouldn’t that mean that the baby would also receive the Eucharist through the umbilical cord? But the baby hasn’t even be baptized yet so how is this okay?
 
Truthfully, I believe that you are overthinking this.

How about John the Baptist, whose feast we celebrated yesterday? He was sanctified in the womb, being born without original sin.

Look up fetal micro-chimerism. Living cells from her children live on in the body of each woman who has been pregnant - delivered successfully or not. Thus, Mary had Jesus’ DNA in her body, as she still does. We can mention this to born-againers the next time they want to talk about a “personal relationship with Jesus”

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Ask Father, or someone here will have a far better explanation than I.
 
The very first person to receive the Eucharist was a pregnant woman, i.e. the Holy Mother of God. Moreover, she had a perpetual, 24-hour-per-day, nine-month Holy Communion with the Incarnate Word of God during her pregnancy.
 
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The Eucharist ceases to be Christ when consumed and is no longer under the appearance of bread and wine.

One could never defecate Christ or pass on Christ to their child in utero for example
 
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And, as Fr. Benedict Groeschel† states in his Rosary, “She lived her life in the presence of the Holy Spirit.”
 
@SacredHeartBassist has it right. Once the Eucharist loses the appearance of bread or wine, it is no longer the Eucharist.
 
This same question was asked on here a couple of years ago. A priest responded:
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The mother’s Holy Communion was between the Lord and her. While the child was near the Blesses Sacrament in the mother’s body, the child was not receiving Holy communion into its own body. (Even in the womb, the child lives its’ own separate life with its’ own blood system and type.) Further, the child was not receiving sanctifying grace from the Eucharist because it was not yet Baptized. It is the sanctifying grace of the sacrament of Baptism that makes it possible for us to receive all the other sacraments by incorporating us into the life of Christ.

Fr. Vincent Serpa, O.P.
 
Well then don’t believe it!

From the Catholic Encyclopedia:
Now during the sixth month, the Annunciation had taken place, and, as Mary had heard from the angel the fact of her cousin’s conceiving, she went “with haste” to congratulate her. “And it came to pass, that when Elizabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the infant” — filled, like the mother, with the Holy Ghost — “leaped for joy in her womb”, as if to acknowledge the presence of his Lord. Then was accomplished the prophetic utterance of the angel that the child should “be filled with the Holy Ghost even from his mother’s womb”. Now as the presence of any sin whatever is incompatible with the indwelling of the Holy Ghost in the soul, it follows that at this moment John was cleansed from the stain of original sin.
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I am not opining here - only passing on what I have learned from such as Fr. Mitch Pacwa.
 
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Yes, I was just thinking what a miracle your birthday is, after all you are going through and have suffered! May God bless you with peace and joy this year!
 
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Yes, I was just thinking what a miracle your birthday is, after all you are going through and have suffered! May God bless you with peace and joy this year!
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I consider myself to be “in between cancers” as odd as that sounds. I have an almost completely different take on cancer, suffering and death than most - thanks to God’s grace.

I reflect on my favorite OT scripture verse, Tobit 12:13 (Vulgate/KInox/Douay-Rheims)
KNOX: Then, because thou hadst won his favour, needs must that trials should come, and test thy worth.

D-R: And because thou wast acceptable to God, it was necessary that temptation should prove thee.
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Tested, in the manner of Job and Tobit, because we have been found acceptable to God. What greater comfort can there be?
 
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johnz123:
Wouldn’t that mean that the baby would also receive the Eucharist through the umbilical cord?
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po18guy said:
it follows that at this moment John was cleansed from the stain of original sin
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So he had original sin, but then when filled with the HS he was cleansed, thus born without original sin.
He was, however conceived in original sin. We just don’t want to confuse folks with Mary and Christ, conceived and born without original sin. Does this make sense? Thanks.
 
AFAIK, it is generally considered to be the presence of Christ - the mystical meeting in their mothers’ wombs which freed John the Baptist from original sin. The leaping in the womb “may” be the actual sign of cleansing, but he had to be in a state of sanctifying grace before the Holy Spirit found a true home in him.
 
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