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Re: ultrasound @ 18.2 weeks

From: Lynn D. Montgomery, MD (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Wed, 31 May 2000 14:21:12 -0500 (CDT)

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At Tue, 30 May 2000, AMK wrote: >
>I had an U/S today and the tech said I was really too early to be coming
>in. She could barley make out the 4 chamber heart and my baby was so
>small and in such a position that the sex could not be determined at
>this time. I had an U/S at 6 weeks (to determine how far along) at
>9weeks ( because of spotting) today and now they have scheduled another
>one in 2 weeks ( to get a better lookwhen the baby is larger). Question,
>is this many U/S's harmful to the baby? Everything she could see, and
>she didn't do all the routine measurements, came out normal. And is it
>unusual to do an U/S at this satge of pregnancy?

This many ultrasound will not hurt the pregnancy. I do have to ask why they scheduled this most recent ultrasound given they knew your dates from the previous scans. They had to know you would be too early to do a detailed scan... Lynn

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Lynn D. Montgomery, MD
Director, Maternal-Fetal Medicine
Rocky Mountain Perinatal Center
Missoula, Montana

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