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By: Home Fetal Heart Monitors: A Hoax? « Reality Rounds

Home Fetal Heart Monitors: A Hoax? « Reality Rounds — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:15:45 +0000

[...] I fell into this same trap with my first pregnancy. I wrote a post awhile back about how I was ultrasound addicted with my first pregnancy, and would scan myself at work every chance I could get. But really, [...]

By: realityrounds

realityrounds — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 20:08:59 +0000

Just don’t fall for the free Starbucks gift card to let the med students practice pelvic exams on you. Trust me. Don’t do it.

By: maha

maha — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 18:02:14 +0000

Haven’t been pregnant but we get Starbucks gift cards if we let med students practice their ultrasounding skills on us. It’s always such a thrill to find out that a) I do NOT have any DVTs and b) my caffeine addiction is subsidized by the medical school

Now, there’s a venti latte and espresso brownie calling out my name!

By: Akiko

Akiko — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 04:21:11 +0000

I actually lied to get a scan done early. I had to know the sex of the baby before I lost my mind so I told the tech I was 2 weeks further along. I went to a lady who does them with a video for a keepsake but she was adamant not to come before 20 weeks. Then 36 weeks into the pregnancy my OB and his WWII era clunker U/S thoguth he saw a scrotum! I was horrified. We saw the “hot dog bun” clear as day at 18 weeks were was this scrotum? The tech said “He saw the umbilical cord, calm down!” when I called her in a panic. Nevertheless, when my child was born, I herad the baby cry and the first thing I shouted was “Is it a girl?” The doc said “Oh yeah!” and they all laughed because she was peeing all over him! Hahaha! That’s what he gets for keeping me in suspense for 4 weeks.

Before that pregnancy I lost two babies and found out during my regular U/S that there was no heart beat. Terrible, terrible. I just wanted to die. I am so glad I have my kids today.

By: courtney

courtney — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 01:32:40 +0000

I’m not a nurse or any kind of health care worker, but where I lived I was considered “rich” and therefore my doctor did an ultrasound every time I went to see him because I could afford to pay for it. I loved it! You can’t beat an ultrasound for $2, the 4D was a bit more expensive…$60.

By: realityrounds

realityrounds — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 23:56:41 +0000

Rose,
Congrats on your baby! Thanks for commenting.
I was admittedly addicted to that darn ultrasound. It was just so fascinating to watch the baby develop.

By: Rose

Rose — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 23:48:05 +0000

I am a labor and delivery nurse, who had a baby 22 months ago. I scanned myself maybe twice. Once when a friend of mine who liked to scan ppl wanted to scan me (17 weeks or so) and once before that. Never after.

We can’t prove they are safe, and, I felt the baby moving, so no need to make sure he was still alive. Next time around, i wont scan myself at work at all-i wouldn’t be able to handle it if i saw the baby was dead while i was at work.

most of our pregnant nurses want to be scanned at one time or another, and i’ll usually oblige. i scanned a 7 week preg coworker b/c she didnt want to tell her daughter she was pregnant until she saw the HB. another coworker did a vaginal u/s on herself b/c she thought she might be pregnant and wanted to see. (she wasn’t). that, i’d never do.

another coworker was 5 weeks preg when her own ob was on call at the hosp-asked for a vag u/s b/c she wanted to see the baby’s HB and she hadn’t had her first appt yet. doc did it, then offered to do a vag u/s on another 5 week pregnant nurse who wasn’t even her patient!

a coworker and i did have a scare when a nurse from m/b unit was 14 weeks preg she wanted to be scanned. so we said we’d do it. we put the scanner on her and saw nothing but a grey/black screen. it was on….but we saw nothing. it was like, “oh crap, maybe she’s not pregnant and she thinks she is!”. thank goodness, no, the transducer wasn’t pointed the right way! lol.

most aren’t that ultrasound happy. just occasionally, ya know. one refused all ultrasounds, from us or her doctors. docs are more u/s happy-lets scan you at 30 weeks, lets scan you at 38 weeks just to see the baby’s size (yeah, right, like thats accurate) or whatever reason.

By: realityrounds

realityrounds — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:37:06 +0000

Christine,
So sorry for you and your friend. Just like the director of OB told me, I was playing with fire with those ultrasounds. It is a false sense of security. Had no clue you could pay for ultrasounds in a mall. Crazy.