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Keep my privates private!
Unless you’re living under a rock you probably witnessed the internet commotion about a paparazzi shot of Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen’s son playing around, naked, on a beach.
A website called Barstool Sports used the headline “Check Out The Howitzer On Brady’s Kid” above the photo of 1-year-old Benjamin Brady frolicking on the sand. The website also added this horrifying descriptor: “Just swinging low like a boss. That’s what MVP QB’s do. They impregnate chicks and give birth to big dicked kids.”
As Deadspin.com reports, the uproar that ensued even involved state police:
The post was deemed so controversial that it resulted in writer Dave Portnoy’s being banned from Boston sports radio station WEEI, numerous threats of bodily harm from faceless Boston sports fans, and a mini-revolt from some of his own obscenely loyal fan base. According to Portnoy, the outcries were so severe that two exasperated Massachusetts state police officers even paid a visit to his house to ask if he would pull the offending post down.
Dave Portnoy took down the post but has remained vehemently unapologetic, saying he only took it down because he didn’t want to get in a pissing match with police. Douche. I know, I know, this particular discussion has been beaten to death but how a grown man can defend posting a photo and commenting on the private parts of a toddler is beyond me.
I bring up the Benjamin Brady photo as an example to ease you into my point. Parents, who would be outraged if someone else commented on their kid’s junk, do it themselves all the time. Continue reading »
How much can we trust our ultrasounds?
An expectant mom has just been through a roller coaster of an early pregnancy.
After suffering some spotting early on in her pregnancy, Chelsea Muff went in for an ultrasound and was told the worst had happened: she’d had a miscarriage.
Doctors wanted to prescribe pills to induce a medical abortion, to clear her uterus of the remaining tissue. She declined, more out of denial than anything else. Instead she opted for a surgical abortion. When she arrived two weeks later for the procedure, she asked the doctor to do one more ultrasound just to be sure.
This time, they found the baby’s heart beat.
![ultrasound How a Fetus Gets Its Face [VIDEO]](http://cdn.babble.com/strollerderby/files/2011/05/ultrasound.jpg "How a Fetus Gets Its Face [VIDEO]")
Thank you, technology, for giving us a window into so many previously unknown aspects of the world. Of all the new frontiers we can now understand in a whole new way, I think my favorite may be the human body. Computer Generated Imagery allows us to visualize things that were impossible to imagine (for those of us who haven’t been to med school).
One of the coolest things I have seen yet: a simulation of the development of the human face in utero. With real fetal photographs as source material, the BBC show Creation “takes viewers on a voyage through the workings of the inner human universe” . The video below uses CGI to create many models of the human face at various stages of growth. Then, they created a time lapse animation so you can see months of development in just seconds, watching the fetus grow from that shrimp-like alien creature, through some really weird looking phases, eventually morphing into that beautiful baby face we find so irresistible.
It all starts with the Philtrum, that little indentation between your nose and your mouth…
For most of us the word “ultrasound” conjures images of a pregnant woman getting a peek at her unborn baby. We might have a whole new, and opposite, set of associations with ultrasound soon.
Researchers at the University of North Carolina are starting human trials on using birth control as a safe, effective, reversible form of birth control for men.
New Scientist has sent one of their reporters, who happens to be pregnant, to do a little investigative research on the power of old wives tales to predict who’s inside that bump.
“Women’s Intuition” won the day. While all the other tales she investigated turned up duds, Linda Geddes reports that she’s expecting a daughter. An ultrasound confirmed the feeling she’s had for weeks that her baby would be a girl.
She’s not relying on her own anecdotal experience alone, though. There’s research that shows over three quarters of women can accurately guess the sex of their baby.
Yesterday we learned that it’s normal for an ultrasound to look, well, a little weird. The baby’s still cooking, after all, and as one tech once told me: “Ultrasound is kind of like trying to tell what an elephant looks like by feeling it’s tail.”
What’s not normal, though, is looking at your baby’s ultrasound picture and seeing the King of Pop growing in your uterus.
British couple Dawn Kelley and William Hickman were looking at a 20 week scan of their seventh child when they saw something familiar. It wasn’t Grandpa’s nose or Mom’s chin — it was Michael Jackson’s face. Take a look:
And here we thought whipping out the ultrasound pics everytime someone made eyes at your belly was a bit much. Ultrasound parties – held at a mom-to-be’s home so “everyone” can meet the new baby at once – just got some big press thanks to big time English soccer star Wayne Rooney and wife Coleen.
The Daily Mail says the fab footballing couple (he plays for Manchester United, she’s a TV star in England) invited an ultrasound tech into their home along with friends and family for a “get to know the baby” party with a 4D ultrasound. But considering their wedding alone was reportedly a five-million-pound affair, this is just one of those things the uber rich are doing, right?
Not exactly. Continue reading »
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