Giving Birth in an MRI Machine – Sound Relaxing?

Talk about pressure.   Talk about comfort?  Let’s do an experiment where women give birth in an MRI machine.

This is happening in Germany, where doctors have designed an MRI machine that will accommodate a birthing mother.  (Mind you she has to wear earmuffs throughout the birth to block out the high-frequency noise.)

They’ve already used the open MRI to take first-of-their-kind pictures of a woman giving birth, and doctors report that the procedure went without a hitch.

Aside from allowing the study of a baby’s movement through the birth canal in greater detail, doctors hope to understand why 30 percent of births don’t progress properly through the birth canal, requiring an expensive Cesarean section.

Noble scientific ideas, but I don’t think I would sign up for that.  For so many reasons!