MEDICAL DESK

3-D IMAGING HAS filmed a baby in the womb mouthing the word “fuck”, according to scientists.

The curious medics monitoring the child’s movements, asked the parents to have a conversation so that they might examine whether their baby reacted to its parents’ voices.

“The mother and father began a very bland conversation about the day and the weather and tasks they had to do,” says Dr Marcia Wellbeene, who led the study in Melbourne, Australia. “Then the mother began to discuss what sex their child would be – they did not know yet, as they had asked us not to tell them. This strand of conversation got them talking about their child’s future, which is common among prospective parents. Then the talk turned to trans pronouns. After about five minutes the baby in the womb began to get agitated – you could see it in its face, a weird confused look appeared and it began to kick so much its mother wondered if something was going wrong. We reassured her and told them to continue with what they were discussing. And that’s when it happened, the baby mouthed the f-word. I mean we’ve replayed this a hundred times and it’s still there. Go figure!”

In the end, experts decided that it was just a coincidence and reassured the parents that their child was perfectly normal.

“They were terrified of what their child would become,” says Wellbeene. “Options were discussed, if you know what I mean. Nothing came of it.”

The child was delivered some months later.