How many scans did you have? I'm scared and need reassurance.
Hi everyone
I'm almost 15 weeks pregnant, and so far I've had 4 ultrasounds - early viability scan at 6.5 weeks, scan with OB at 8 weeks, reassurance scan with midwife at 10 weeks and the 12 week NT scan.
My OB had said it was OK for one particular midwife who had been trained in using ultrasound to give me a reassurance scan (my first pregnancy was a missed miscarriage and I'm terrified of it happening again). When the midwife did the scan it seemed to take a long time, maybe 5 mins or more, much longer than my OB does it for.
I've been feeling very anxious about whether things are going OK, so I called up this morning to ask if the midwife could give me another quick scan, and they said that the doctors have decided that midwives are not to do scans any more as they're not properly trained. They seemed a bit vague as to the specific reasons why they've decided to stop it now.
This has scared me a bit, could the scan that the midwife did have harmed my baby? I'm worried that the 4 scans I've had so far could have done some damage to the baby. I just did a quick google and loads of sites with scary-looking summaries came up. I'm not game to look further into it.
Has anyone else had quite a few scans and their baby has been OK? How many scans are other pg women getting? Did you have any that seemed to last a long time? I know I'm going to be getting a few more over the course of this pregnancy, OB does a quick one at each appointment, and there's the 20 week morphology one to come as well.
** Please don't post anything in here about dangers you've heard about, I just need some reassurance today as I'm feeling very emotional and quite scared.
Don't worry. Women having twins usually have a scan every fortnight.
It can't harm your baby as it measures sound waves.
You will still need the morphology scan at 18 - 22 weeks. That one could take up to an hour. 5 minutes is nothing.
Don't stress Bub's is perfectly healthy!
Thank you so much bjrose, that's exactly what I needed to hear. I know I'm being a crazy, irrational pregnant woman. I was in tears to DH on the phone over it and I knew I was overreacting. I'm just so scared of losing this baby that everything seems dangerous and worrying.
I had 8 scans on the big scanning equipment and one on the OB's little one. My scans varied in time - as little as a couple of minutes (OB's one) to I think nearly an hour (NT scan when a big NT measurement was found), and a similar time for the week 34 week one (for a growth check but an issue with cord blood flow was then suspected). All others were somewhere in between. He was born completely normal and as far as we can tell he has been completely unaffected by all that scanning. Try not to stress about it.
Due to a history of infertility and m/c I was often worried something was wrong. Regardless of having all those scans (none of them requested by me) I still had moments where I felt sure something was wrong. It never was. Scans will only reassure you until the next time you have doubts. I found posting in here whenever I had those doubts helped a lot.
Devon please dont stress it is very normal to have many scans. I had 5 scans before i was 20 weeks then my ob did a quick scan every visit so i think i had arond 12 scans all pregnancy. Think of it as an exciting thing to see how your baby is growing and progressing. Good luck and enjoy.
I had weekly looksies at my bub with my OB and she is perfectly healthy, bouncy and happy. the ones with my OB were usually just 5 minutes or so (sometimes longer as DH could never work out what was what LOL!).
we also had a long NT scan and the 20 week scan took almost 2 hours...
Big to you! you are in the zone where the m/s is tapering off (hopefully!) and are probably not yet feeling those gorgeous kicks...i remember finding those weeks really tough, but be rest assured that in the coming weeks bubs will let you know that they are growing strong by hefty kicks to your guts!
Another scan-a-holic here!! I have had one at 8 weeks- one at 13 weeks- one at 19 weeks, 23 weeks, 27 weeks, 32 weeks, 34 weeks and 36 weeks, they were all at least 20 minutes long and while bubs hasnt been born yet- i am sure he is fine, and we have a nice collection of pictures of him already as some where 3D/4D- which are pretty cool- and some of those scans took so long coz the dr was trying to get a cute pic of his face!!!
I would say that your dr has put a stop to Mid wives doing scans merely because as they said- they are not exactly qualified and if anything was overlooked and found to be wrong at a later stage (not with you- but in future for other people) then they are at risk of legal action etc- so they are just covering their arses! And it could just be too- that when you called- the eprson you spoke to wasnt aware that one particular m/w was able to give scans.. maybe talk with your ob again when you see them next.
How many scans did you have? I'm scared and need reassurance.
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to you! you are in the zone where the m/s is tapering off (hopefully!) and are probably not yet feeling those gorgeous kicks...i remember finding those weeks really tough, but be rest assured that in the coming weeks bubs will let you know that they are growing strong by hefty kicks to your guts!
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