Submitted by Fox First at Ten on June 27th
HUFFINGTONPOST.COM - There is now a whole new way to see the "Miracle of Life."
In an effort to study how the fetus and the mother's pelvis interact during birth, researchers in Berlin observed a live birth with an MRI machine. As New Scientist reported, the birth took place in 2010, but the video was made public only recently. It is the first time such a video has been released.
According to the study, which is published in the June 2012 issue of the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology,
the video shows "the active second stage of labor, when the mother
starts performing expulsive efforts with the valsalva maneuver." click here to read more and to watch the video


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