July 2011 Moms

Should I do my own ultrasound?

I'm 5 weeks and won't have an ultrasound until 20 weeks unless there are any concerns prior to that... but I'm getting a little jealous of all you gals that are getting to see your u/s's... even if it's just a little blobby at this point ;) I'm a nurse in the ER and we have an ultrasound machine... I'm thinking about playing around with it tomorrow night at work and checkin' out this little one ;) What do you think?
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Re: Should I do my own ultrasound?

  • Aren't most early U/S internal?  Would you be able to do that yourself?  I think that would be weird. 
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  • I would NOT try to do a vag ultrasound on myself... I'm just doing an abdominal ultrasound... I may not be able to really see anything yet, but it's worth a shot ;) And I won't get in trouble... people do it all the time, as long as we don't have any patients to be taking care of... I'll probably have to wait until about 5am for that to happen!
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  • Why would it be internal? Mine wasn't and I'm only 6 weeks. You just have to drink a lot of water beforehand.

    I'd go for it, as long as you won't get in shiit!

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  • As long as you wouldn't get into trouble .... heck yes!!
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  • If you know at all what you should be looking for then I would probably. If not then I wouldn't because you might freak yourself out over nothing if you don't see what you think you should see. 
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  • I wouldn't do an abdominal one this early, because if you don't see anything (even though you will know thats normal) you're still going to worry.  I'd wait a few weeks and then do it.


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  • imageL&R70707:
    I wouldn't do an abdominal one this early, because if you don't see anything (even though you will know thats normal) you're still going to worry.  I'd wait a few weeks and then do it.

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  • imageL&R70707:
    I wouldn't do an abdominal one this early, because if you don't see anything (even though you will know thats normal) you're still going to worry.  I'd wait a few weeks and then do it.

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  • A lot of people who get really early u/s do so because of a history of loss or IF. That's nothing to be jealous of.

    I would not give myself an u/s. What do you do if you find something wrong, God forbid?

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  • If I had access to an u/s machine, I would probably be on it 24/7. (Good thing I don't have access to one!)

    Just FYI- you can't see anything in the belly u/s until around week 9/10+. Even then, depending on the tilt of your ute, it may be hard.

    Wth my first PG at 11 weeks, they had to alternate between the vaginal and belly one to get a shot, because my ute tilts back.


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