From the first case of intrauterine surgery to the youngest baby: those historic moments that cannot be forgotten.

1958: Breakthrough in Imaging Technology Ultrasound scans can tell whether the baby is a boy or a girl. But it can do much more than that. Ultrasound examination is the most important scientific breakthrough in pregnancy examination technology in the past half century. It can enable doctors to detect problems such as fetal cardiac insufficiency, monitor fetal growth, detect the risk of premature delivery, and can also be used as a real-time monitoring method for pregnant women’s surgery. 1959: Important Discovery of Neonatal Pulmonary Lesions Neonatal hyaline membrane disease, or neonatal respiratory distress syndrome, is a lung disease that seriously threatens the lives of premature infants. The 2-year-old son of US President John F. Kennedy and his wife Jacqueline Kennedy Read More …

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Twins have four different forms in their mother’s belly.

Walking on the street, a pair of twins dressed in the same clothes can always attract the envious eyes of pedestrians. Some twins are almost the same in appearance and sex. This kind of twins, often [monozygotic twins], is two babies developed from the same fertilized egg. However, the twins of a man and a woman, or twins that do not look very similar, may be [double-egg twins], that is, two babies developed from the fertilization of two eggs respectively. Double-egg twins account for about 2/3 of the total number of twins and single-egg twins account for 1/3. What do twins look like in their mother’s belly? The [living conditions] of the baby in the mother’s belly are general, and Read More …