SMILING FROM THE WOMB

Happy fetus

Pioneering scanning techniques have produced astonishing images from inside the womb which show babies apparently smiling and crying.

Experts believe the breakthrough could lead to advances in baby health for a whole range of conditions, including Down's Syndrome.

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The pictures offer a new insight into foetal behaviour.

The ultra-sound scanning techniques capture images which show the foetuses yawn, blink, suck their fingers and seem to cry and smile.

Up to now, doctors did not think infants made such expressions until after birth and believed they learned to smile by copying their mother.

The procedure has been pioneered by London obstetrician Professor Stuart Campbell at the Create Health Centre for Reproduction and Advanced Technology.

His pictures reveal foetuses moving their limbs at just eight weeks.

The new techniques, known as 3D and 4D scanning, allow for far more detailed examination of the foetus.

"There are many questions that can now be investigated," said Prof Campbell.

"Do babies with genetic problems such as Downs Syndrome have the same pattern of activity as normal babies?

"Does the foetus smile because it is happy, or cry because it has been disturbed by some event in the womb?

"Why does a foetus blink when we assume it's dark inside the uterus?"





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fascinating.....

...and in 20 years they'll discover that this "scanning" technique causes cancer...

I swear, the more "progress" we make the farther behind we fall.

Cool info though, it must be fun in there.

cool!

Now we can have 'abortion tv' combining the latest scientific technology with the worlds obsession with reality tv

miss it and youre making a fetal mistake!

quote:Originally posted by ATypiCalStuDenT:

cool!

Now we can have 'abortion tv' combining the latest scientific technology with the worlds obsession with reality tv

miss it and youre making a fetal mistake!



ahahahahahahahahaah YES

Interesting.

Truly remarkable!

i was a happy fetus.

p.s. im erect

the only happy fetus is a dead fetus

on with the coathanger

when i was born i didn't wake up the whole time. i slept thru the whole procedure and didn't cry once. kinda funny.

I am not happy. Doctors do not know shit. Sorry to break your hearts.

Mmmm, fetus....

*Drools*

Now I'm all hungry.