Ultrasound before birth

[Alan]

Hi Kitz
I just thought I would confirm what others have said.
I have attended numerous vaginal births with the cord around the neck once, twice and even three times without any problems. This is not a reason for a caesarian.
The size of your baby can not be accurately judged by the fundal height measurement. Measuring the height of the fundus is so inaccurate that many place3s no longer bother doing this any more.
The size of your bump will depend on many things including the amount of fluid, the position of the baby, your body size and shape.
It is not possible to accurately measure the weight of your baby by ultrasound.
This is an extract from Australasian Society for Ultrasound in Medicine policy on ultrasounds.

?No formula for estimating fetal weight has achieved an accuracy which enables us to recommend its use.?

There is also some suspicion that frequent routine ultrasound scans may be harmful to your baby

[Marlene]

Please do not stress about the size of your bump. I spent a couple of weeks stressing as everyone was telling me how "tiny" I was (even though I feel like a whale, LOL, and telling me I should be bigger. I even have a friend who is 24 weeks and only slightly smaller than me ( I am 34 weeks). I went and had a scan (as my DH works in ultrasound) because I was so stressed out, but the doctor said everything was perfect. Now that I look back at photos of my previous pregnancies (this is my 4th) I have realised that I carried all my babies really small and they all ended uo being over 8 pound, LOL. So as the old saying goes, "size really doesn't matter".

By the way I am a public hospital patient and I am having a routine scan on Tuesday (34 weeks). All hospitals are different.