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...SHOWER GIFT FOR THE WOMAN WHO HAS EVERYTHING Some fathers-to-be pick up a pint of Ben & Jerry's for their pregnant wives. That sly fox TOM CRUISE buys an obstetric apparatus. The War of the Worlds star purchased a sonogram machine, which can cost as much as $200,000, to keep an eye on the fetus growing inside his fiancé KATIE HOLMES. Exhibiting some newfound restraint--no upholstered furniture was harmed--in a Barbara Walters interview airing this week on ABC, the actor, 43, said he and Holmes, 26, plan to marry next summer or early fall, after...
...franchise into the world. Noting that pregnant women seemed to have an insatiable appetite for ultrasound images of their babies, Dr. Leon Hansen set up a retail offshoot of his practice that offered high-tech images in a low-rent setting--a mall. Women soon flocked there to buy sonogram videos and pictures made strictly for keepsake purposes. Hansen has since sold his stake in Fetal Fotos, but the business is booming with a dozen outlets across the country and a host of imitators with cutesy names like Peek-a-Boo Ultrasounds and Womb with a View...
...states, including California and Illinois, have proposed legislation banning such ultrasounds. In the meantime, says Copel, "physicians can do a fair amount to blunt the impact of these places." If provided with a blank videotape beforehand, his staff will happily pop it into the VCR and record the sonogram for posterity. Some of his colleagues will do the same with DVDs. "But we do it only when there is a medical indication to do the ultrasound," he emphasizes. And patients eager to have the full sentimental experience will have to add their own music. --With reporting by Rita Healy/Denver
...that he and his wife Caterina could stay in touch with their families in Mexico, Arkansas and the western U.S. from their home in the Bronx, N.Y. "I don't have to bombard them with huge photo attachments on e-mails," says Tirado, who just posted his wife's sonogram of Baby No. 2 on the site. The blog keeps Tirado's parents closer to his son and even encourages real visits. "They'll say, 'I wish I could have been there for that' after seeing something posted on the site, and I'll say, 'All the more reason...
...Life, which was formed in the mid-'80s and has been drafting young members ever since. The pro-life cause has also received a boost from technology. The morning-after pill and new forms of contraception like Depo-Provera have made surgical abortion that much rarer, and high-resolution sonogram images have made an embryo's first moments that much more real...