{"id":91353,"date":"2016-04-01T08:57:22","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T12:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=91353"},"modified":"2016-09-06T17:17:14","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T21:17:14","slug":"baby-punches-face-ultrasound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/baby-punches-face-ultrasound\/","title":{"rendered":"20-week ultrasound shows baby punching himself in the face"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Sometimes, kids do unusual\u00a0things. Any parent will tell you that. It&#8217;s\u00a0a little\u00a0scary sometimes, but more often than not it&#8217;s enjoyable watching kids just be kids. Each one is unique, and their individuality can be observed in their\u00a0behavior\u00a0from the beginning.<\/p>\n<p>It seems that my five-year-old son, who likes to jokingly punch himself in the face &#8220;just for fun,&#8221; is not the only one.\u00a0A Kansas couple, Dave and Vanessa Watson, recently observed their preborn son, EJ (Edward James), engaging in a one-man <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/femail\/article-3436834\/Unborn-baby-appears-PUNCH-face-20-week-ultrasound-scan.html#ixzz3zaMx4fsJ\" target=\"_blank\">boxing contest<\/a>, which he won handily. At a 20-week ultrasound, EJ was seen striking himself in the face with the speed of a skilled fighter&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1t_aHm_fGsg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;It was a real shock,&#8221; said Dave. &#8220;We were watching the ultrasound live and suddenly this happened. The nurse laughed and said that was a new one for her.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Although boxing may be uncommon among preborn babies, <a href=\"\/news\/pro-lifers-need-to-be-factually-accurate-about-fetal-development\/\">at 20 weeks<\/a> babies often twist, turn, and otherwise perform vigorous acrobatics. They sleep, hear sounds, have sweat glands and fully developed eyes, and according to many scientists, can <a href=\"\/news\/how-the-media-promotes-junk-science-on-fetal-pain\/\" target=\"_blank\">feel pain<\/a>. (There <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aul.org\/2008\/03\/fetal-pain-legislation-women-deserve-to-know\/\">is also<\/a> &#8220;a steadily increasing body of medical evidence and literature supporting the conclusion that a fetus may feel pain from around 11 to 13 weeks, or even as early as 5.5 weeks.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-91405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.liveactionnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/holding-the-umbilical-cord.jpg\" alt=\"holding-the-umbilical-cord\" width=\"491\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/holding-the-umbilical-cord.jpg 491w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/holding-the-umbilical-cord-300x220.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 491px) 100vw, 491px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Daily Mail <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/femail\/article-3436834\/Unborn-baby-appears-PUNCH-face-20-week-ultrasound-scan.html#ixzz3zaMx4fsJ\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a> that Vanessa is due to give birth this spring. In the meantime, let&#8217;s hope EJ takes it easy on himself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, kids do unusual\u00a0things. Any parent will tell you that. It&#8217;s\u00a0a little\u00a0scary sometimes, but more often than not it&#8217;s enjoyable watching kids just be kids. Each one is unique, and their individuality can be observed in their\u00a0behavior\u00a0from the beginning. It seems that my five-year-old son, who likes to jokingly punch himself in the face &#8220;just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[5149,8142,8140,8139,8141,127],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>No fooling! 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