Ultrasounds, the crack cocaine of pregnancy
I can understand why people love ultrasounds. Ever since we saw the little figlet I would love to see him again. I love to remember how his little hand punch into the air, defiantly, as if to say, 'screw you moms' from the very beginning.
With the new study saying that ultrasound can do damage, it's prudent to minimize them as much as possible. Yes, prudent, the recurring them of pregnancy. It's prudent to continue the progesterone until week fourteen. It's prudent to take those antibiotics. It's prudent to stay away from soft cheese, lunch meat, blue veined cheeses and anything else that tastes REALLY GOOD.
Prudent.
Still, there's this temptation. After all, if they really NEEDED an ultrasound after the 18-20 week mark, I guess we'd HAVE to comply. I crave a fix.
The crack cocaine of pregnancy.
posted by Sacha @ 5:43 AM
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The new study on u/s didn't really determine anything about the use of u/s in people.
It was done on rats, who are much much smaller than people (and thus the intensity of the sound waves was higher) and who have a much shorter gestation (so the duration of u/s time as a fraction of gestation time is also higher). They made no claims about the threshold of what is too many ultrasounds.
Not to mention the fact that if women are being advised to have more than the standard two u/s, there's probably a medical need that far outweighs the risk of additional scans.
I'm not saying Tom Cruise had it right and we should all have daily scans, but this study was not directly applicable to human pregnancy.
We read some studies too and have decided that we most likely won't get the 3-D one we had planned for late in pregnancy. We had a 7 week one and we're having our next one at 19 weeks, 4 days. That will probably be it for us. It is tempting but we don't *really* need more and if there is even a slight risk, we just figure we might as well wait to see our baby in person. :-P
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