Even the NYTimes can't avoid reality. The article on "entertainment" ultrasounds begins by referring to fetuses, but by the end...
...it's a baby.
The music playing gently in the background also serves as the soundtrack for the DVD the clients receive. It was composed by a client's husband, Marc Bazermat, who was so taken by the experience he had with his wife that he created what they call in the office "The Ultrasound Song.""Clients can also bring in their own music," Ms. McClintock said. So an unborn baby can groove to the Beatles or Busta Rhymes, depending on what the parents think their offspring's tastes may be.
Mrs. Fronimos's tiny daughter seemed to favor chocolate.
When the baby would not cooperate, choosing instead to shield herself with tiny hands from the prenatal equivalent of paparazzi, Ms. Johnson turned to a trick she picked up during the 20 years she has performed ultrasounds in doctors' offices.
She gave the mother chocolate.
"It goes straight to the baby," Ms. Johnson said. "It's a sugar rush."
Sure enough, the image on the screen soon became clearer, and a big smile could be discerned.
Interesting but I'm not sure, rather unconventional? Must be an experience to remember.
Posted by: Joshua | May 18, 2004 at 06:43 PM
Wow, that is a great story.
Posted by: Jeff Miller | May 18, 2004 at 07:16 PM
These "4-dimensional" ultrasounds are all the thing up (here in the Boston area). Technology like this is making more and more people confront what they should have known, or did know and ignored: there's a baby in there. I'm hopeful that this will change minds, especially those of young women.
Posted by: Cathy Johnson | May 19, 2004 at 09:13 AM
Good. Very good.
Posted by: Grant Gallicho | May 19, 2004 at 09:17 AM
"Probably nothing has been as damaging to our cause as technological advances that show pictures of the fetus."
-- Harrison Hickman (pollster), "Framing and Selling the Pro-Choice Message," NARAL annual conference, October 1989
Posted by: Nick Frankovich | May 19, 2004 at 04:01 PM
Technology like this is making more and more people confront what they should have known, or did know and ignored: there's a baby in there.
Very well said.
Posted by: pchuck | May 19, 2004 at 07:26 PM