I’m not a parent and am thus unqualified to talk on such matters, although that’s never stopped me before so let’s have a go at this then.

No doubt your Facebook newsfeed has seen its fair share of baby scans, the announcement that a little human is on the way and the countdown timer to when you’ll never see those friends again beginning.

Now what if you could get a jump on the other parents-to-be and decorate your walls with a 3D print of your baby’s face? Yes it’s true, with more from Mashable:

A business in Tarleton, Lancashire, is offering a rather unusual bonding experience for parents-to-be: Those visiting Baby Boo Scan can get a 3D-printed rendering of their unborn child to frame or hang on a walls for all to see.

Each eight-inch cast of the face is sculpted using ultrasound data and converted into a 360-degree format before it is 3D printed. It looks like a mask, but it’s more concave than the solid block you see in the photo above…

Baby Boo’s ultrasound service is strictly for bonding purposes; technicians there cannot make medical diagnoses.

Important little caveat at the end there, in case things go medically wrong and all that jazz. So how does the 3D model compare to the real baby? You decide:

Oh wow that’s cute, your baby really is….hang on it just soiled its diaper, I’m outta here.

[source:mashable]