ultrasounds...good or bad
im 8w 3d and have been going dr every 2 weeks (2 appiintments so far) and have another appointment in 2 to 3 weeks i got 2 ultrasounds already one at 6w 2d and one at 8w 2d...im not high risk...is too many ultrasounds bad?
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The comment I am referring to is obviously your comment about 3d/4d causing more radiation to the fetus and mother......this is a grossly ill informed statement!!
Ultrasound uses no kind of radiation whatsoever!! I am registered in radiologic technology as well as in diagnostic medical sonography SO if there were any PROVEN dangers I would know and furthermore the highly educated physicians I work for would not do repeat scans AND offer the widely popular 4d scans!!
Everyone please take everything you read on here with a grain of salt!! Alot of it isn't true and I think as pregnant women we have enough to worry about without worrying about the things we were misinformed about!!
To answer the original.question I don't think ultrasounds are bad. Many women have multiple ultrasounds (including myself) and their babies appear to be unharmed but I agree with homebirthadvocate wondering why the doc has you coming every two weeks and why an ultrasound both times. It is a little unusual unless they were trying to see how far along you are and then doing a first trimester ultrasound. They are more expensive than just an office visit and im pretty sure they would have to give a reason to insurance for doing so many this early.
I hope you got great pictures of your peanut though
I'm not here for drama of any kind.....i was simply stating a fact that hopefully will make some girls on here not worry about negative effects of ultrasound.....