We’ve got ultrasound images of the grandson who will be born in November.
Of course an old teratologist is going to immediately check the number of digits and conformation of the palate. Looking good so far!
(also it wouldn’t matter if he has six toes and a facial abnormality — still my grandson.)
I mean, he’s no spiderling, but handsome enough as primates go, I suppose.
Congratulations, Gramps.
It has been postulated that “metamaterials” used as ultrasound lenses could increase image resolution up to a factor of four.
This will obviously make the images less prone to ambiguities and make it possible to detect severe conditions at an early stage.
May he and his mother be healthy!
There is some village in Colombia or Ecuador where six digits per hand are common. They do not seem to suffer from adverse health. In fact, it might be an advantage if you are planning a career as concert pianist.
When my wife was pregnant with our daughter, the doctors thought there was a good chance she would be born with Downs Syndrome. They offered to do an amniocentesis to find out. There was a chance that the test could accidently cause an abortion.
We agonised over getting the test done until we realised that, if the test did show we had a Downs child we would not stop the pregnancy, so the test would be a pointless risk.