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Re: doc visits for pregnant women

From: anonymous@obgyn.net
Tue, 19 Sep 2000 16:43:33 -0500 (CDT)

At Mon, 18 Sep 2000, jodafee wrote: >
>Hello,
>
>I'm still working on getting pregnant, and if I do I want to know what
>my options are regarding doc visits.
>I would like to do this naturally all the way, no ultrasounds/sonograms,
>no x-rays etc. How often should one visit her doc/obgyn during
>pregnancy before birth if no ultrasounds etc will be used throughout the
>whole 9 months?
>How can a doc. determine how many weeks one is pregnant without having
>an ultrasound done? Does urine/blood tests determine the weeks of the
>pregnancy?
>I apologize for all the million and one questions but I need to know all
>this please.
>Thank u for your time
>
>--
>Jodafee
>

I am curious. Why do you want to avoid an ultrasound? I have never had even one patient that did not want as many as she could get. If one ever did decline them, that would be up to her, but no one ever has. 

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William D. McIntosh, MD, FACOG
Clarksville, TN


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