This viral video literally deserves a round of applause.
Back in March, a mother-to-be named Jen Cardinal shared an ultrasound video of her 14-week-old unborn baby shown clapping her hands. Mom posted the clip to YouTube, writing, “At our 14 week ultrasound our baby was clapping, so I sang a song with our doctor as my husband filmed.”
The video shows the baby, now named Penelope clapping seven times, while mom and the doctor sang off camera to If You’re Happy And You Know It.
Many commenters were quick to call the video fake, but Cardinal set the record straight saying, “The experience is one I’ll never forget, the baby clapped three times, then the doctor rewound and scrubbed it while we sang. No mystery. It was amazing. Trolls won’t get me down!” She also told TODAY.com that while her doctor manipulated the footage to extend the applause, the first three claps were indeed “very real.”
“We went for an ultrasound. Our baby clapped two or three times. We gasped, laughed,” she said. “Doctor said, ‘let’s sing a song.’ He rewound and replayed it to us singing, so it looks like the baby is clapping. Great fun.”
A representative for the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists added, “Fetuses make all sorts of meaningless movements in utero without knowing that they are doing it — but if the clapping movement is real, it only happened once and they probably edited it to repeat.”
See for yourself in this incredible video below and please SHARE it on Facebook with your friends!
[Featured Image Credit: YouTube- Jen Cardinal]