The image of a fetus from barely 17 weeks of gestation, captured by a ultrasound 3D, during a routine navigation plans to what appears to be a smile and opens a debate among scholars on the possibility of fetuses to experience feelings by 4 months of pregnancy and abortion, leaving open to all, including the parents of little. Although scholars argue that these photos do not necessarily show that baby "has feelings", cannot be denied that Yes is showing one mouth. They generally agree that the expression of feelings such as pain, for example, only are detected between 24 and 28 weeks. Dr. Stuart Campbell, the teacher who made the 3D ultrasound believes that the expression of the fetus is joy and human behavior. He had already seen a fetus 19 weeks crying, but this is the first time saw a fetus smile 17 months, long before what was believed. Feto sonríe durante ecografía 3D Doctors agree that within 4 months of gestation, the connection between the brain and the rest of the body of the fetus is still very limited. At this stage, the baby is still "unconscious" in the womb of his mother and therefore is alien to experience happiness or any other feeling. For this reason, they don't know what could cause the smile in the fetus. The possibility that has been a part of a sequence of movements that include yawning, opening of eyelids, etc.

Smile or not, the truth is that the image can be seen an expression of joy in the fetus, and it has generated a strong debate in England, where it is already discusses reducing the limit of 24 weeks of gestation to perform an abortion. The parents of the baby who was born in January, were surprised to see his small smile. The only thing that worried is that your baby is healthy. And by what you see in the image, it seems that it is.Hopefully this is the case.

Vilma Medina.GuiaInfantil.com editor