A new study has revealed that unborn babies cry within the womb. Ultrasound videos taken of infants within the womb revealed 28-week-old babies crying in response to a noise stimulus.
Scientists played a 90-decibel noise to the unborn child, roughly the equivalent of a tummy rumbling, and recorded the effect the noise had via ultrasound. “It was strikingly like an infant crying,” said New Zealand pediatrician Ed Mitchell, who contributed to the US study, according to New Zealand's The Age. “Even the bottom lip quivers.”
And this at a time when news reports inundate our televisions, assuring us that babies do not feel pain in the womb. Uh-huh. They clearly feel something, though, don't they? Who knew that a little blob of non-human jelly could emote like a real person? How bizarre.
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