Creativity of birth

Recently I had the opportunity to see my unborn child during an ultrasound exam I attended with my wife. I think that it is miraculous how medical technology has created a machine that enables doctors and parents to view their unborn infants while still in the womb. It amazes me that you can visualize the fetus’s structures and development of the internal organs. You could actually visualize the heart chambers pumping blood through them and hear the actual heartbeat. I have always thought that the creativity man has developed in medicine throughout last several decades is astonishing. The ways medicine has improved over the last few decades has made everything safer for patients. Even in the area of surgery, you can now have a simple laparoscopic procedure to fix problems or remove certain organs. Where before you would have to be cut open and spend a week in the hospital to recover afterwards. Today you can go in for a procedure and go home all on the same day. The technology of ultrasound allows problems in the development of the fetus to be diagnosed early, when there is still time to correct the problem. It is amazing that you can see the formation of organs, and be prepared before delivery for any apparent complications. With this new technology, doctors and parents have the opportunity to decide the best way to correct any complications and be prepared with what they want to do before actual delivery of the baby.