My DD was a bit older but she came to all mine.
I didn't think she took much in.
When I was 34 weeks with DS I had to have a growth scan, and DH was working so had to take DD on my own. She was happy with a packet of biccies and a drink, chatting to the lady. I didn't think she listened much or took anything in as the lady really didn't direct any info actually to her, but I found out that we were having a boy that day.
We had discussed and decided on two names (boy and girl) when we thought we were going to deliver at 24 weeks - so 10 weeks prior to that but hadn't discussed it since, and later after the scan I asked her if she knew what we were having. She answered yes she was getting a brother and his name was going to be Nate......I nearly fell over.
I had no choice because DH didn't come to mine and I had no baby-sitting options.
TBH if I had a choice - no. If there was something wrong I would want time to digest that before I had to explain it
Took ours to the 12 week one (at around 2yo), she practically screamed the house down. We got a close park to the hospital, made the mistake of taking her in her stroller, and we're just not allowed to take her for such a short walk in the stroller apparently. The ultrasound person was NOT happy.
So we didn't take her to the 20 week one.
I also don't take her to my regular checkups, we do sometimes take her to the doc when we both need to go for something, but she really hates the doors in there being closed on her so you have to wait 5 minutes for her to stop screaming and (literally) hanging off the doorhandles before you can speak. She's getting better now she's older - we had a reputation at the hairdresser too, it took 2 of us holding the screaming toddler down to get her hair cut, and she needs her hair cut quite often. Now she just happily sits there and everyone comments on the cute ball of golden fluff.
Needless to say, there's a darn good reason I don't want her at the birth - I want the doors SHUT and she really has an objection to strange places with closed doors.
We took our just over 2 year old son to the 12 week scan and he was awesome. He sat with my H and got a little restless at one point but my H gave him an apple (our failsafe quiet tool) and he ate that while watching the screen the whole time- it was gorgeous.
We'll be taking him to the 20 week scan too and hopefully he'll be able to actually notice the recognise the baby this time but I guess we'll see. It's a longer scan so my H and I have agreed he'll take him out for a bit if it gets too much for him to be quiet.
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