We've seen women do it live in art galleries and streamed online. Even in this exhibitionist age, the latest expose of the miracle of childbirth was shot in an unlikely place: an MRI machine. From inside the birth canal of a 24-year-old woman from Berlin, Germany.
The mother-of-two consented to delivering a baby inside a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine. Even though the birth happened in 2010, the 30-second video has only recently been released for public viewing. And what viewing it makes!
(Un)fortunately the footage ends just before the baby's head emerges, as doctors didn't want to expose the newborn to the high-pitched noise of the MRI.
Fascinating or TMI? Has science gone too far in 'medicalizing' childbirth and stripping it of its mystique? Should it leave well alone?
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