Watch: Unborn Baby Punches Himself in the Face During Ultrasound

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Maybe he was a boxer in a previous life.

An unborn baby apparently punched himself in the face during an ultrasound, which was captured on video. The footage is now going viral

Vanessa Watson, the mother, shared the clip of the child, named Edward James, or EJ, hitting himself so hard that he was knocked backwards.

The 20-week-old child is OK, father-to-be Dave Watson confirmed. The couple said they were afraid the boy had injured himself, but the nurse assured them he was fine, KAKE-TV reported.

“I wanted to ask him, ‘Why are you knocking yourself, boy?’” Vanessa told The Wichita Eagle.

“The nurse doing the ultrasound said that in 20 years she’s never seen anything like that.”

The incident has led them to speculate what EJ will be like.

“We love ultimate fighting. So we were just talking about that, maybe he’s going to be some fighter or some boxing guy,” she told KAKE-TV.