New ultrasound technology shows 12-week-old unborn child 'walking' in womb (Photo: BBC News).
Posted on 06/28/2004 11:40:47 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
Edited on 06/28/2004 11:41:29 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
New ultrasound technology, producing vivid 3D images, reveals complex behavior in unborn children from an early stage of development.
New ultrasound technology shows 12-week-old unborn child 'walking' in womb (Photo: BBC News). |
Scans pioneered by Prof. Stuart Campbell at London's Create Health Clinic show a 12-week-old fetus "walking" in the womb, reports BBC News.
Other pictures show fetuses apparently yawning and rubbing their eyes.
Campbell's technology previously made news when it produced images of unborn babies appearing to smile. The professor has compiled the images in a book titled "Watch Me Grow." Unlike conventional 2D ultrasound images, used to measure growth, the new machines can give doctors information about fetal behavior.
"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," Campbell told the BBC.
His images show at 12 weeks, an unborn child can can stretch, kick and leap around the womb long before the mother can feel movement.
While most doctors thought eyelids were fused until 26 weeks, Campbell's pictures show the baby open its eyes from 18 weeks.
A whole range of typical baby behavior and moods can be observed beginning at 26 weeks, including including scratching, smiling, crying, hiccuping and sucking.
Smiling was believed to not start until six weeks after birth.
I wonder what Bill Clinton was up to at that age.
Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, [and] I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
Jer: 1-5
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Somebodyposted this at DU. The first comment in the thread was about how we right wingers would be happy to hear it because it proves that babies can pull themselves up by their own bootstraps and will never need welfare. Man, those people are dumb and evil, what a great combo.
Bears repeating...
I just visited "there"...it's been along time...but nothing has changed...you are correct...for example there is a thread lamenting how the "Christian Menace" was threatening Canada..amazing...evil they are...
Beautiful.
See my tagline... I know it's blunt... but it is also the plain truth.
It was strange, watching the video of this today, and listening to commentary coming from the mouth of a woman that supports Partial Birth Abortion.......very strange indeed.
"It was strange, watching the video of this today
Where did you see it, and who was the lady?
I think most of them know well what they are supporting.
It's part of their evil religion."
I'm a compulsive channel flipper first thing in the morning....I think it was on MSNBC.
A fetus is just a lump of tissue! It can't do anything but leech off its mother like a cancer! < /pro-murder mantra >
Bump for amazing pictures.
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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)
Now THAT'S what I call a gestation period......whoa :)
Day before yesterday my neighbors showed me a photo book of the pictures of their baby girl due mid Aug of the new ultrasound. I got to see her rubbing her eyes, the side of her head, opening her eyes and at the end it was like she had had enough of the whole procedure and she curled way up into a little ball. The mother and father have been trying to have a child for 9 years, so the whole pregnancy has been nothing short of a miracle. The mother told me that the father a top mechanic and hunter, a strong dominant male became very misty-eyed while at the procedure and viewing his daughter.
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