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Oh baby! One of Hilary Swank's twins is already ready to rumble.. The 48-year-old pregnant actor is in her third trimester with the twins, and she posted a new ultrasound photo on Instagram March ...
Alyssa Scott is sharing the first look at her future baby with Nick Cannon. The 29-year-old model took to Instagram to post a sweet image of the 3-D ultrasound of her future child's face, writing ...
When a pair of twin babies finally noticed each other, it was love at first sight. “My twin boys discovering each other for the first time,” Meagan Garr, a wedding videographer in Ocala ...
Obstetric ultrasonography, or prenatal ultrasound, is the use of medical ultrasonography in pregnancy, in which sound waves are used to create real-time visual images of the developing embryo or fetus in the uterus (womb).
The embryo measures 18 mm (3 ⁄ 4 in) in length. Fetal heart tone (the sound of the heart beat) can be heard using doppler. Nipples and hair follicles begin to form. Location of the elbows and toes are visible. Spontaneous limb movements may be detected by ultrasound. All essential organs have at least begun. The vitelline duct normally closes.
Obstetric ultrasonography of twins at a gestational age of almost 9 weeks. The mother’s and the twins’ bodies have a higher echogenicity than the amniotic fluid around them. The standard representation is brighter color for higher echogenicity, giving the almost anechoic fluid an almost black appearance.
Conjoined twins occur roughly once in every 35,000 to 80,000 births, according to Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, which has performed over 30 conjoined twin separations since the 1950s.
On the right, the "pump twin" which supplies the acardiac twin with blood. A selective termination of the acardiac twin reduces the risk of death of the pump twin. Selective reduction is used when a mother is carrying an unsafe or undesirable number of fetuses in a multiple pregnancy , which are common in medically assisted pregnancies .