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Bonding With Baby, Perhaps A Little Too Soon
Finding out the sex of your baby can be a dicey proposition, for many reasons. But one key one? The sense of attachment we sometimes develop to our kids, even when they’re still in utero. A reader to the New York Times Motherlode blog, Amanda Goehring, wrote a thoughtful letter to blogger Lisa Belkin about the bond she formed with her unborn d...
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How To Hold Your Baby Before Birth
A new application of ultrasound technology has now made it possible for parents to hold their babies before birth. Not their underdeveloped, flesh, blood and two-chambered heart babies, but exact replicas of them. In plaster. Brazilian inventor, Jorge Lopes, figured out a way to use 3-D printing technology to create models from 3-D ultrasound im...
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Choosing (a) Life
The radiologist's skin shone with perspiration in the blue light of the ultrasound monitor. He moved the sensor over my rounded belly and stared at the image on the screen, at a glare or spot of light that looked, to me, like a star on the baby's heart. Even I knew it wasn't supposed to be there. "The results from your blood test screening — a...
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