Parents-to-be could soon be able to watch their unborn bundles of delight stretching,wiggling and even swallowing while in the womb thanks to a revolutionary new MRI scan. Expectant parents bear had to be content with grainy ultrasound images but a leap in technology means the pioneering scan can even show high quality clear images of a 20-week-stale baby's heart, approximately the size of a one pence piece, and thumping - and how a hefty kick ripples through a mother-to-be's tummy,the Daily Mail reports.
The £10million development by a London-based team of medics of the new-style scan offers a glimpse of how all mothers might view their babies in the not too distant future.The incredible detail reveals just how fully formed a foetus is at 20 weeks and reignites the debate on lowering the current 24 week legal abortion limit in the UK.
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has previously supported slashing the limit to 12 weeks and there bear also been calls to reduce it to 20 weeks.
A short video, created by the iFIND project, and shows a 24-second scan of a 20-week-stale baby and precisely what they get up to while in utero.
Source: tert.am