See your child play in the womb

Chen Shulang yawned, hiccupped and took her teensy toe up to her tiny mouth. She was showing off in front of the family when she was not supposed to be born till another about four months.

"My husband and I were almost in tears tears of joy when we first saw her, she had been inside my body for five months then," Cong Erhan, a Beijing-based real-estate saleswoman recalled yesterday. Chen was born soon after that, and is now more than one year old.

The 4-dimensional (4-D) ultrasound technology that can present an almost real image of a fetus is fast becoming a craze with would-be parents, especially well-off urban couples, across the country.