Scans uncover secrets of the womb (With PICS)

BBC ^ | 06.28.04

[wallcrawlr]

A new type of ultrasound scan has produced the vivid pictures of a 12 week-old foetus "walking" in the womb.

The new images also show foetuses apparently yawning and rubbing its eyes.

The scans, pioneered by Professor Stuart Campbell at London's Create Health Clinic, are much more detailed than conventional ultrasound.

Professor Campbell has previously released images of unborn babies appearing to smile.

Baby 'walking' in the womb

The images have shown:

* From 12 weeks, unborn babies can stretch, kick and leap around the womb - well before the mother can feel movement

* From 18 weeks, they can open their eyes although most doctors thought eyelids were fused until 26 weeks

* From 26 weeks, they appear to exhibit a whole range of typical baby behaviour and moods, including scratching, smiling, crying, hiccoughing, and sucking.

Until recently it was thought that smiling did not start until six weeks after birth.

[Dajjal]

"Unviable Tissue Mass" bump

[Thane_Banquo]

Its odd how the liberals will go out of there way to protect an "endangered" form of pond scum, but fight tooth and nail for abortions.

I mostly don't like Michael Savage because of his pessimism, but he's right on one account: Liberalism is a mental disorder.

[Nita Nupress]

My niece is 27 weeks along with TRIPLETS......one recent ultra sound seemed to show that baby #2 was allowing baby#3 to suck his thumb...guess he was makin a racket and keeping everyone else awake !!!

I would give anything to see that! What are the chances that your niece would upload the image to one of the free webhosting sites to share with others? That's soooo cool!

[tuesday afternoon]

For advocates so fundamentally committed to changing the face of conservative America, liberals have been remarkably blind to the fact that every day the abortions they advocate dramatically decrease their power to do so. Imagine the number of followers that their abortion policies eliminate who, over the next several decades, would have emerged as the new liberal thinkers, voters, adherents, fund-raisers and workers for their cause.

Fascinating article about the law of unintended consequences. Excerpt posted here and here

Here's a link to another article that says religious people are having more babies than nonreligious.

Here's a link to GE's 4Dultrasound with a brief moving picture.

So, when are these pics going to make the airwaves?

[Coleus]

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* A 22-week-old unborn boy scratches, rubs and pats his cheek, then his nose, indicating that fetuses are capable of fine finger movements from an early age.

* Fetuses as young as 11 weeks not only sucked their thumbs, but one brought his toes to his mouth, then searched around until he found the biggest to latch onto.

* At 12 weeks, some fetuses were already yawning and rubbing their eyes.

* Fetuses as young as 18 weeks were seen opening their eyes. That's about eight weeks earlier than they were previously thought to be able to do so.

* After 26 weeks, the fetuses behaved like typical newborns to an extent, scratching, crying and smiling.

 

New ultrasound technology shows 12-week-old unborn child 'walking' in womb (Photo: BBC News).
New technology reveals behavior of unborn (Courtesy Sky News)