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Hold your unborn baby? Yes, you can …
Have we taken all elements of surprise out of pregnancy?
Not only can we see Baby via ultrasound, now in 3-D/4-D color no less, but we can find out what gender Baby is months prior to delivery.
These are a great features for excited expectant parents - myself currently being one - but, did you know you can now “hold” your baby prior to delivery? Yes - you read correctly - “hold.”
A recent report on ABC’s Good Morning America explains just how, thanks to Brazilian designer Jorge Lopes who uses 3-D images to make models of unborn babies.
Touted as a “Prenatal Bonding” experience, Lopes makes these models life-size, pertaining to the week of gestation the images are from, for parents to bond with.
What do you think? Would you like to “hold” your unborn child or wait until the real-thing makes his or her appearance? Check out the video link and let us know …
Contact this reporter at dmjordan@coxohio.com.
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By grandmaof4
July 6, 2009 11:03 AM | Link to this
My daughter was a serogate 2 yrs. ago and it was a wonderful thing that she did. The parents were able to see their unborn child in advance. He’s beautiful! I think it’s wonderful that the parents can see their baby and plan ahead. She is going to do it again for them soon! Thank you for such wonderful technology.By angela
July 6, 2009 9:03 AM | Link to this
no. that is just weirdBy Kayla
July 5, 2009 9:58 PM | Link to this
I don’t need to “bond” with someone’s plastic replica of my unborn child, especially at some exorbitant cost. I’m bonding just fine with her sitting on my bladder and punching my kidneys, thank you very much. That’s the real thing, and that’s all my husband and I need.By Stephanie
July 4, 2009 3:40 PM | Link to this
No way. It would completely bother me to hold my not-fully-developed child. Why would anyone do this? I know we live in an age of instant gratification, but this would be life’s biggest spoiler.