Posted on 06/28/2004 1:31:10 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55
Scans uncover secrets of the womb
Baby 'walking' in the womb 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.
He has compiled a book of the images called Watch Me Grow.
Conventional ultrasound, usually offered to mothers at 12 and 20 weeks, produces 2D images of the developing foetus.
These are very useful for helping doctors to measure and assess the growth of the foetus, but convey very little information about behaviour.
Complex behaviour
More pictures of developing foetuses Professor Campbell has perfected a technique which not only produces detailed 3D images, but records foetal movement in real time.
He says his work has been able to show for the first time that the unborn baby engages in complex behaviour from an early stage of its development.
Professor Campbell told the BBC: "This is a new science for understanding and mapping out the behaviour of the baby.
"Maybe in the future it will help us understand and diagnose genetic disease, maybe even conditions like cerebral palsy which puzzles the medical profession as to why it occurs."
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.
An hour long session using the new technology, which is not yet available on the NHS, costs £275.
How can you be upset with that quote? I don't even understand what he's saying.
He made the comments to a reporter that it was hurtful to nurses to see babies moving after they had performed an abortion on them. He was advocating to make sure that they had stuck a needle in the child to ensure it was dead before they sucked the little life out of the womb.
O MY GAWD! That's so disgusting! It's pornographic and horrible! You pro-lifers ought to be ashamed of yourselves!
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bttt
Can he dance?
Will he pay to se F9/11?
Does he/she hate Bush?
If yes, human. If no, republican and useless.
A_R
There you go! There's your standard for life!
In reference to the photo in reply #5, it looks like at ten weeks, babies are able to assume the internationally recognized, 'driving' position!
This will also serve them well in later life....
A_R
Those pictures would save millions of lives in the long run though.
The problem is no abortionist would ever allow them to be taken.
They can also cry silently and suck their thumb at that age. Pretty amazing stuff.
ping!
Wow.
PING!
That is pretty amazing stuff for a blob of tissue huh..? ;)
I agree. It's pretty amazing!
I would have never thought that a blob of tissue could walk around!
PING!
Someone ought to fund a documentary on the miracle of life in the womb and get it into theaters.
PS to my previous post: Maybe the Catholic Church could fund such a documentary as partial penance for all the pervs they've let slide and all the kid-glove treatment they've given to Catholic-In-Name-Only politicans.
We have seen our pending twins with this technology at the 18, 22, and 26 week mark. My wife is in week 30. This will be 3 and 4 for us.
It is truly amazing to watch them yawn, pick their nose, rub their eyes and kick each other in the head. You can monitor fetal heart rate and watch the blood transfer in the chambers of the heart.
Anyone who sees this and still supports abortion is a cold-hearted murderer.
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