A 7 week ultrasound would be more accurate than a 13 week one especially if it agreed with your lmp. 13 week babies have plenty of room to move around and sometimes it is more difficult to measure accurately.
It is painless. Diagnostic ultrasound (standard ultrasound) is harmless and painless. However it needs to be performed by a specialist (a physician or a radiologist).
An ultrasound might be performed if the doctor deems it necessary. However, if the labor is moving rapidly, an ultrasound might not be performed.
Amniocentesis. However this procedure carries risk that ultrasound does not. Discuss these things with your doctor.
There are not many schools that offer online ultrasound schools. However, many of the ultrasound schools offer night and weekend schedules so it is pretty convient to work schedules.
An ultrasound may be able to detect multiple embryos as early as your third week of pregnancy; However, the ultrasound will be most reliable at detecting a multiple or twin pregnancy at around 6 to 8 weeks.
The primary purpose of a 3D ultrasound is for a woman to have an extremely clear image of her unborn child to see what it looks like or to determine the sex of the child. However, there are no direct medical benefits to a 3D ultrasound.
You do not need to be fasting before an ultrasound, however u must drink plenty of fluids, this leaves the kidneys at their largest and easier to see in the ultrasound. Plus by not fasting the kidneys are working like normal while the US is going on.
Ultrasound is safe as it does not use radiation such as traditional xrays do. X-rays cannot be done because can cause damage to the fetus. However, ultrasound uses ultrasonic waves that are not harmful and can produce very clear pictures of a developig fetus.
Yes, I went in for an ultrasound on 09/24/09 and they told me I was 6 weeks and 4 days along. the baby's heart rate was 138bpm and I could hear it with the abdominal ultrasound and the transvaginal. However, every pregnancy is different. Godd luck!
The best and most reliable way to confirm a twin or multiple pregnancy is to see it with an ultrasound. An ultrasound is the only guaranteed way to know whether you're carring more than one baby. An ultrasound may be able to detect multiple embryos as early as your third week of pregnancy; However, the ultrasound will be most reliable at detecting a multiple or twin pregnancy at around 6 to 8 weeks.
This procedure, however, cannot detect biochemical or chromosomal alterations in the fetus.
While an ultrasound examination is being done, there is a visual image that is captured as pictures showing the structures that are being examined by the sound wave technology. These video-taped images are recorded by the technologist performing the ultrasound so that a physician can review the images and interpret the test results for diagnostic purposes. In pregnancy, ultrasound "pictures" are taken of the fetus and these are recorded for the same reasons above, however, these recordings are also provided to the pregnant woman as her very first "baby" pictures.