Saturday, September 13, 2003

SMILES--AND TEARS--IN THE WOMB

The case continues to build from the already undeniable that those in the womb are more than masses of tissue that somehow become real people one day. New technology is showing us how babies in the womb smile and cry:
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.

What a wonderful thing.

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