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I’m convinced it’s fake. It looks like it’s been coated in Vaseline and bit of red paint to add to the effect, but no fetus that size has pale white skin. Pro-life groups and medical model companies make some weird latex fetal models. There are hundreds available on Alibaba alone.The "It's a Boy" card in the first photo has the fetus's handprints on it. It's pretty common for hospital nurseries to make hand and foot prints of a new baby as a keepsake for the parents, whether the child is expected to live or not. Someone, likely a nurse who had actual living newborns to care for, had to ink up the gooey, sticky hand-like appendages on that fetus and pressed them onto the little card. It's actually amazing that it could even be done without completely macerating the shit out of the fetal remains. The skin of fetuses and very premature infants is incredibly fragile and tears if handled. Semper fi to whomever got actual clear "hand prints" without leaving the "hands" stuck to the paper.
Fetuses, until the near the third trimester, have almost translucent skin and you can easily see veins, blood vessels and organs. The handprints on that card are stamps. Anyone tried to ink the hands on the latex fetus they would end up with little sambo hands.
I think these are latex fetus models “representing” what a embryo/fetus would look like at xx weeks if it also had a nice thick layer of skin on it and was plucked perfectly out of the womb intact for photography.
Blue, bruised/discolored, decomposition or translucent skin is what you see in real photos of premature stillborn babies. Miscarriages don’t produce nicely intact tiny fetuses ready for a FB post and hand printing. They produce blood clots and fetal tissue. The body is expelling the fetal tissue because it’s dead, and has been dead for several weeks. It takes the body a few weeks to realize fetal demise occurred and then to expel it via spontaneous abortion.
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