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Knowledge that babies can hear in the womb is no mere scientific oddity, says Dr. Smyth: testing the fetus' response to sound enables the obstetrician to judge its health. In the series tested, two babies reacted normally at 30 weeks but failed at 34 weeks. Both were stillborn to diabetic mothers. Presumably, they could have been saved by Caesarean delivery if the change had been caught in time...
...feet are like flippers, attached close to the body with little or no arm or leg. Hamburg University's Pediatrician Widukind Lenz. 43. began to suspect Contergan because he found that in many cases the mothers had taken it late in the second month of pregnancy, when the fetus' limbs are forming...
...rest are hereditary, dating from the instant that a sperm and an ovum, one or both defective, join to make a defective cell. In the subdividing process that starts at once, every newly created cell carries in its genes the defect, ready to misguide the fetus toward abnormal development-malformation, for example, or mental retardation...
...dormant for decades. This would go far to explain why some cancers, though not hereditary in the ordinary sense, tend to run in families. Or they may come from virus infections of the mother during pregnancy: if they cross the placental barrier, they could lodge in the fetus, which has little or no antibody-forming mechanism to reject them...
...grow in tissue cultures. Since the illness in children is so mild, the raw virus could probably be used to infect girls before puberty; the danger is that if they escape childhood infection, exposure during the first three months of pregnancy may cause crippling or fatal damage to the fetus...