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(reply to mike.stanton3)

As I said before, there are citations for and against most forms of medicine. The FDA has said there are unknown risks to scanning which is why they advise women not have have bonding scans. They would not advise that if there wasn't a theoretical issue. After all, getting to see your baby probably does improve bonding and is fun for the mother (usually if there isn't anything wrong).

I have no opinion myself on ultrasound as I think there needs to be more study. I had ultrasounds with my children (I had not read anything about them at the time). I did refuse the 12 week scan as I could not see a medical justification for doing one. They can't diagnose anything at that stage, it's just for dating which can be done by LMP. I also made the midwives use a pinard instead of an ultrasonic device to listen to the heartbeats, to avoid over-exposure.

I also had the 4D scan after reading that the waves weren't higher intensity, just fired in more directions. I have relatives with post-abortion syndrome and did it to give my son's pictures to a pro-life group. However, my son although healthy did not speak till he was nearly 3 years old (all he said was 'yeah' and 'mama') and now his speech is about 1 year behind his age so I decided to look into the scans more and that's when I found out there had been a concern about speech delays. My other 4 kids never had any 4D scanning during gestation and they were talking in sentences at 18 months old so I do wonder if there is an association.

September 29, 2011 - 4:22am

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