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Ultrasound tomorrow.. Different questions

I was reading the post below and I noticed people asked how much water the doctor said to drink. Mine didn't say anything about drinking a certain amount of water. Was it pretty much the same amount for everyone? I think she said 1.5 liters. Also, someone said that they might not tell you anything. They will tell your doctor. Has that happened to anyone? I am so stoked I don't want to be disappointed. Thanks!!

Re: Ultrasound tomorrow.. Different questions

  • If it is an internal ultrasound you don't have to drink any water. Can you call and ask what their requirements are?

    Up here the tech can not give you any information. They send it all to your doctor/midwife and they tell you (I don't know if this applies to the sex as we didn't find out).

  • My doc said not to drink any water at all, and even asked me to pee before. 
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  • I wasn't told to drink any water before my u/s, and I was told to pee immediately prior (as in, the tech asked me to go after calling me back). They can see everything whether you have full bladder or not, and if they didn't give you instructions, I'd assume it doesn't matter how much you drink.?
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  • My dr said to drink 35-44 oz.  And I have to drink it all in 15 minutes an hour before my appointment.  Which will likely piss me off since they are always running late.

     There's no way of telling if they will tell you right there or if the dr will. 

  • I had 3 with each to get all the shots for various reasons.

    With C. the first she was moving too much, the second she was asleep and sitting on her tush, we finally got all the shots at 26 weeks and finally found out what she was.

    With J she was asleep and would not budge, had to go again at 22w but they could not tell thought I thought girl and had to get more heart shots beacue of a bad angle and found out she was a girl at 25.5 weeks. 

    I was told to drink for my first 2, I did and wanted to vomit and pee all over. BOTH times the tech put the want on me and said go empty your bladder. So I did not drink more than my normal amount and all was fine.

    SO NOT drink a ton 90m before. A small bottle 30m before is PLENTY to get a full bladder.

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    When I booked the appointment they never said anything one way or another about drinking water. So I called today and asked because I had heard that I might have to, and it turns out I do. I'd call tomorrow and ask, but if the appointment is first thing in the morning maybe just drink the water and then if you don't need a full bladder, you can just pee before the U/S. That would be better than showing up and them making you guzzle a litre of water and then sit in the waiting room for an hour waiting for your bladder to fill.

    I think usually the technicians can tell you the gender, but they can't give out any "medical" information about the anatomy, development, etc. At least that's how it usually works here...

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    My dr said to drink 35-44 oz.  And I have to drink it all in 15 minutes an hour before my appointment.  Which will likely piss me off since they are always running late.

     There's no way of telling if they will tell you right there or if the dr will. 

    Dude I had the same problem!  I drank this huge thing of water (as told) and then they were over an HOUR late!  It was miserable, and I was not a happy camper.  Needless to say after they got all the "required" shots I had to get up and pee in the middle of the u/s.  I swear I thought I was going to get a UTI! (thank goodness I didn't)

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  • A full bladder will help push your ute up so it's easier to get some of the shots.  Some dr's don't care...but I think the shots are better when the bladder is full.  But that's JMO.

  • My coworker had to drink water before hers and then the tech asked to her let a little bit of pee out. Not all of it though. That would have gotten a big fat Indifferent from me.
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    My coworker had to drink water before hers and then the tech asked to her let a little bit of pee out. Not all of it though. That would have gotten a big fat Indifferent from me.

    DITTO.  That is nearly impossible for me.


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  • My doctor sent me to an Imaging place to do my u/s. They called me yesterday and said to make sure I drank at least 24 oz of water 1 hr before my scan. I drank at least that and the baby was moving all over the place. Once he got all the measurements he needed he then asked if we wanted to know and we both said of course. He couldn't get anything so he had me go to the bathroom and empty my bladder and then there it was, plain a day. It's a boy!
  • The technician is allowed to tell us only the sex of the baby.  She/he is not supposed to give us medical info.
  • The person doing my US has done one for me before when I had complications earlier on. She didn't say anything about water then but she did give out information. I had bleeding and she used the US to show me where the blood was coming from and to show me what she could of the baby. I guess I'll just drink some water and then pee it out if needed. Thanks for all the help!
  • Is your u/s early in the morning? If it isn't then just call like an hour or two before. If it is first thing then just drink like 3 or so cups of water because you can always pee it out if they don't want you to have it in your bladder but you cant just drink the water right when you get there and have it go in your system that fast (unless they dont see you right when you get there) which sometimes you do have to wait a bit to be seen. GL
  • mine said nothing about the whole drinking water deal. and the u/s tech and u/s doc talked openly with me about everything. my OB works closely with an u/s clinic, and their staff of doctor's, and the u/s doc will be the doc that delivers our baby should an emergency arise with my regular OB.
  • when i called yesterday they said 24-36oz an hour before....for the dating US at 10 weeks i just had a big old glass of cranberry juice and it was fine. 
  • I've had ultrasounds where they told me to drink the water and others where I didn't have to.  I would call and check.  If you don't have to drink the water, you don't want to...it was SO uncomfortable for me!

    GL and enjoy your u/s!


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  • For my big u/s I was told to eat/drink normally but not to pee before I got there.  The tech would tell me if I needed to empty my bladder or not.

    So I arrived with a pretty full bladder (but not uncomfortable) and made it through the entire u/s without peeing. The minute she was done, however, I used the bathroom. ;-)

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  • I have ultrasounds all the time and have never had to drink any water before hand.  They are all external and wasn't required to drink anything, even before my Level II.  Check with your doctor (or whoever is performing the ultrasound) because all the machines are different.
  • My technician cleared that up for me: I was supposed to have my 12 wk U/S but I didn't get the appt until I was 14.5 wks (I was fine with that).

    I mistakenly thought I "shouldn't pee an hour before" and so I didn't, and the tech made me get up half way through, go to the bathroom, and come back!  I told her "oh, I though I wasn't supposed to" and she said "you were right: but that's only for U/S in first trimester, and you're second tri now!"  (she was very nice and informative about lots of stuff).

    And can I just say, she even teased me when she sent me out "oh, someone has a full bladder, you need to go empty that so I can finish the exam" but when I went to the bathroom, to me at least, it seemed like a very little amount of pee.  So who knows what they intreperet as "full".

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  • They've always told me to drink 32oz of water and be done drinking an hour before my appt. 
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