3D-printed ultrasound lets blind woman 'see' her unborn baby

Avideo showing a blind woman getting to "see" her unborn child by holding a3Dprinted ultrasound has drawn more than a million views in a couple of days.

News that figures of human fetuses could be3D printedas keepsakes forexpectant parentsfirst broke in 2012 when a Japanese company started offering the service.

Businesses in the U.S., South Korea andEstoniahave followed suit, promptingmany around the web to ask whypeople were actually spending up to about $1,300 USfor "weird" fetusdolls.

That conversation shifted in a big way,however, as the internet learned aboutTatiana Guerra, 30, who has been blind since the age of 17.

In a video released by Huggies Brasillast week, Guerrais seen at a doctor's officebeingexamined20 weeks into herpregnancy.

As an ultrasound is being performed, the doctor informs her of the baby's healthy heart rate.

"What does his face look like, doctor?" asks Guerra in Portuguese, unable to view the ultrasound images for herself.

"His nose looks like yours his twolittle eyes are closed how do you imagine him?" he responds.

"Oh, I imagine him," the expectant mom says. "His nose like a little potato a small mouth a chubby little hand."

The video then cuts to a mobile 3Dprinting station, which shows the ultrasound imagery being used to create a physical model of the unborn baby.

When theprintedfetus is brought into the room with Guerra, the doctor informs her that it is an image of her son, whomshe plans onnaming Murilo.

You can seeher touching reaction for yourself in the video below.

The use of 3D printersto repairand aidthe human body hasbeen well-documented in recent years, but Guerra's storyis the first to make public how this type oftechnology can help a blind mother "see" her unborn child's ultrasound and despite the fact that it's part of an ad campaign, the internet is loving it.

The YouTube video's view count has jumped from approximately 50,000 to more than 1.6million in just two days.