Birth and babies. Amazing how something so natural… Can seem so
miraculous. [via Gizmodo] This Is What Child Birth Looks Like,
From the Inside Back in 2010, a team of German doctors announced
that they’d recorded the world’s first MRI of a woman giving
birth. Back then, only still images were available—but now the
researchers have released the video, and it’s spellbinding. New
Scientist explains how the video, which you can watch below, was
acquired: The video captures the active second stage of labour
as the mother expels the fetus. The technique, called cinematic
MRI, takes repeated images of the same slice of the body before
joining them up to create an ultra-detailed video. The
scientists acquired the footage in order to examine the
relationship between the movement of the fetus and its position
as it travels through the birth canal. In turn, that should help
doctors manage complications during labor and delivery. [Read
More] And the more scientifically unnatural both become? The
freaking creepier… Both,