So I went for my FIRST u/s a couple of days ago and when I was booking in over the phone the receptionist asked it I had had my previous u/s this pregnancy there. I told this would be my forst u/s for this pregnancy. I was quite taken aback because when I was pregnant with DD#4 only 3 years ago I had to request a NT scan which cost $150.

So I go for my u/s and the sonographer asks what my edd is going from my first scan. I tell him that I have not have a previous scan and this will be my first. He asks me why, because this should be my THIRD! I tell him this is my choice and I didn't want any other scans. So apparently now you go for a dating scan, the NT scan and the 20 week scan! Do we really need all of these? It seems a lot of women are taking the dating scan even when they do know their dates.

I tell him my LMP and he proceeds to tell me that they can me erroneous by quite a large date but I reassure him that I was having regular cycles (even if they weren't regular I would still have a good indication of my 40 week edd). Again when scanned for DD#4 they took only my LMP date, not an u/s date and I wasn't questioned as to (insert bossy man voice) "why I hadn't had any other scans"... and mind you this was the exact same sonographer that I had with DD#4!! Are they uneducating these people?

Do the medical professionals think that they and their medical equipment have come so advance that women don't need to be in tune with their bodies? Or is it that we have become so reliant on these procedures that we just to take any notice anymore!!?? Why are competent women questioned so harshly and disbelieved when they do know their bodies?

Oh and my 40 week edd according to the u/s was one day off what I told him!!