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Sep 26, 2008
3-D scans from the womb
More parents-to-be ask for lifelike photos, videos of their unborn babies
THE first time Mr Walter Wong and his wife Doreen Tay, both 32, laid eyes on their baby, she was yawning - in her mother's womb.

They saw her face and movements in real time in May - when Ms Tay was 71/2 months pregnant - courtesy of an ultrasound scan which yielded three-dimensional images like a live video feed.

For an hour, they watched entranced as tiny Yee Suen stuck her tongue out, shielded her face with a hand and reached to touch her toe. Mr Wong, a sales manager, said: 'We always wondered what she was doing inside when she moved or kicked. These are things you would never get to see without this scan.'

Read Lee Hui Chieh's full story in Saturday's edition of The Straits Times.

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