u/s if you had your time again..would you?

[Rivlas]

I had a scan with DD1 and I didn't agree with the date. We ended going with my dates as I was 100% certain when I fell pregnant.
With DD2 I didn't have one as the Dr said he would again go with my dates.
Back then you didn't see much and were told even less. I think you were around 20 weeks before you were offered a scan and you didn't have any pictures to take home.

I don't think it made any difference to how I felt being pregnant

[Bumperstump Cummerbund]

Although a termination would be against my religious beliefs, I agree with PP's about being able to research and psych yourself up before the birth if there were a problem.

Apart from that, I'm generally a pretty anxious person, so I suspect I would need at least ALL of the standard u/s just to reassure myself.

[onthefly]

I'm a little concerned about the possible ill-effects of lots of scans, so would like to limit them in future. But doing IVF makes that hard too.

We ended up asking our OB to stop doing them last time, as he would just do them as a matter of course every time we saw him (and we got charged for it of course).
I guess I'd rather just do it as and when it seems necessary.

The waiting is very hard, I know, but I always seemed to find the lead-up immediately before a scan was the most nerve-racking part! And personally I bonded more with the kicking, squirming thing inside me than a picture on the screen.

Rivlas, you must be young. I don't think they even had ultrasounds when she was pregnant