Husband Toby, 33, from Illinois, said: ‘During the ultrasound, Heather noticed that one of the images appeared to look like Emperor Palpatine from Star Wars.
‘At this point, everyone in the room had a laugh, including our eight-year-old daughter Hannah and the ultrasound technician.
‘At the end of the ultrasound, the tech asked us if we would like to include that image on our take-home CD, since we were so amused.’
But Toby only realised the stir the scan of his son Bowie, now eight months old, would cause among Star Wars fans when he uploaded it to his webpage last week.
Web user ‘MasterGnet’ commented ‘The Force is strong with this one! Like it!! Congrats from Switzerland!’, while ‘Khz-acid’ write ‘Grats on the sith lord baby!’
Toby added: ‘And now Heather is both amused and slightly disturbed that images of her uterus are making the rounds on the internet.’
- Metro