The first photos proud expectant parents show off to family and friends—ultrasound images of a growing fetus in its earliest days—are underwhelming and indecipherable. Families long to see something ...

Ultrasound scans of faces in utero can distinguish between when a fetus yawns and when it just opens its mouth, according to research published November 28 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Nadja ...

Nearly 99 percent of women went ahead with an abortion after voluntarily viewing an ultrasound image of the fetus beforehand, according to a large new U.S. study. Based on medical records for more ...

DURHAM, N.C. -- Parents-to-be might soon don 3-D glasses in the ultrasound lab to see their developing fetuses in the womb "in living 3-D, just like at the IMAX movies," according to researchers at ...

Although fetal images are common in contemporary culture, they still pose interpretive difficulties, which are highlighted in Gish Jen’s “Birthmates” and Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s “The Ultrasound.” ...