Comments on: Brain scan of baby during birth

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 10 May 2013 21:48:08 +0000

i dont think you know what an open mri is.

By: amphiox

amphiox — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 21:32:26 +0000

Unless they changed the orientation of the image afterwards, Mom is not in the supine position.

By: chad

chad — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 20:18:41 +0000

where’s the video?

By: Alison

Alison — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 16:37:02 +0000

Well observed, HeidiKM. Just as a matter of interest I inverted the image and found that, although it made more sense anatomically, the image of the baby was much harder to ‘read’.

By: HeidiKM

HeidiKM — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 18:38:28 +0000

Fabulous picture, but it’s upside down. The spine should be at the bottom of the frame (properly positioned babies are born facing backwards.)

By: Jon Brock

Jon Brock — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 11:02:22 +0000

Looks like Neuroskeptic in there!

By: Magnetresonanztomografie einer Geburt : misterhonk.de

Magnetresonanztomografie einer Geburt : misterhonk.de — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 08:32:33 +0000

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By: Iva

Iva — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 00:39:42 +0000

All I can say is – I’m sorry for the mother and the baby.

Fit mother into the machine???
Except for hanging upside down by her ankles, the supine position (flat on one’s back) is the worst possible for delivering a baby – that is worst possible for the mother, most convenient for the doctor. The mother should be moving, standing, squatting, being on all four, semi-sitting, whatever but lying flat and still.

I get the idea “in the name of science”, but I would never sacrifice the birth of my own child (and yes, I have already given birth) to this.

Just 2 cents from a mother who cannot imagine being in a machine for delivery…

By: doctorclark

doctorclark — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 22:26:04 +0000

This is an excellent followup study to this IgNobel prize-winning (in Medicine, in 2000) paper:

“Magnetic resonance imaging of male and female genitals during coitus and female sexual arousal.”

[link]http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10600954[/link]

[link]http://improbable.com/ig/winners/#ig2000[/link]