Prenatal ultrasound portraits: Darling or dangerous?

Angela and Michael watched with joy as their second child sucked its thumb and kicked up its toes. Their delight was however, tempered with some disappointment as they could not completely see their baby’s face.

“My placenta obstructed the view of the head, the forehead, and the eyes,” says Angela, who is seven months pregnant. She and her husband went to a private ob-gyn clinic in Westlands that performs keepsake prenatal ultrasounds.