Womb With a View

For many expectant parents, nine months is just too long. Not willing to wait for the birth of their child and the accompanying flash photos, American and British parents-to-be are shelling out $200 and more to ultrasound centers with cutesy names like Prenatal Peek and Babyview for high-res, golden-hued ultrasound images of fetuses in their amniotic homes. It's not hard to see the appeal. The latest advances in ultrasound technologyfrom grainy 2-D to glorious 4-D with accompanying DVDproduce images that are impressive, showing facial features, hair, fingers, toes and even a fetus' sex. Some companies throw in a sound track to...