First MRI birth video reveals what childbirth looks like from
the inside (CBS News) Recently released video of a woman giving
birth is providing people with their first look at what
childbirth looks like from the inside. Using an cinematical MRI,
which takes multiple images of the same body part and then
stitches them together to create a movie, German scientists at
the Charite University Hospital in Berlin were able to create
the first film to show what the interior of the birthing process
looks like. While images of the birth and the study were
previously published in the American Journal of Obstetrics &
Gynecology and the birth occurred in November 2011, the video
wasn't available for public viewing until today. Because
researchers used an MRI, which is not known to omit ionizing
radiation, there was not the same radiation risk for the mother
or fetus compared with other scans. NewScientist reports that
the video will give researchers more information about the fetus
as it travels through the birth canal.