New Moms Check In With Their Newborns On iPads To Start Surveillance Young

After a difficult birth, women are sometimes separated from their newborns because the babies are in the neonatal intensive care unit and the mothers are recovering elsewhere in the hospital. Cedars-Sinai in LA is providing iPads for “BabyTime“, though, so families can stay connected. More »

Seeing Births and Deaths in Real Time in the US Is Morbidly Fascinating

If you want to remind yourself of the scarcity of life, just check out this visualization that shows the births and deaths in the United States of America in real time. It’s pretty insane to see just how many people’s lives change every second. You just never know. Check it out here. [Google Drive via Nowhere Near Ithaca] More »

This Is What Child Birth Looks Like, From the Inside [Science]

Back in 2010, a team of German doctors announced that they’d recorded the world’s first MRI of a woman giving birth. Back then, only still images were available—but now the researchers have released the video, and it’s spellbinding. More »