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4-D Ultrasounds Are Risky Entertainment

  • July 01, 2004

With names like "A Womb With a View," "Fetal Fotos" and "A Peek in the Pod," ultrasound boutiques sound like an innocent way to get a glimpse of your unborn child. A few hundred dollars buys 90 minutes in a bedroom suite outfitted with a four-dimensional ultrasound machine that allows you to see much more definition--eyebrows, noses, lips, ears--than the grainier, two-dimensional ultrasound images many doctors rely upon. But a growing number of officials worry these elective ultrasound...