Baby 'walking' in the womb
Scans uncover secrets of the womb
A new type of ultrasound scan has produced vivid pictures of a 12 week-old foetus "walking" in the womb.The new images also show foetuses apparently yawning and rubbing its eyes - Scans uncover secrets of the womb
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Poem Before Birth
water, water,
flesh-cord feeding
taut bundle
of woman's belly.
the brow of the child
is first to form,
while gills still
pulse in the jostled quiet.
the strong sleep
before birth hypnotizes
until shock of tongs and thrusting thighs
obliterates
the song of falling haze,
blue-red
veins, translucent
skin,
breath, heartbeat
and hunger.
tears and a sometimes
return to the silence.
stars in their cool
pond, bright blankness.
the depth
and the old remembering.
the wave
without the water.
-- Berkeley, California, 1966
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