Anyone bring a video camera to u/s?

Rosiedoll · June 2009

I was just watching a video on youtube of an 11 week u/s, which is what I'll be at my next appointment. I was honestly amazed at how much the baby has developed by that stage! I'm wondering if the Dr's would think it is strange if we video taped the u/s? We would like to share it with FIL who lives out of state.

mrsolsenk12 · June 2009

I didn't do it but I have heard of people who have. Your dr. probably has seen it before so if you want to, I think you should go ahead and do it.

JCM083009 · June 2009

Even if they do think it's strange - who cares!!! If you want to do, do it!!!

na24 · June 2009

We did that twice so our parents could see the ultrasounds. ?Just be sure to ask the dr. or the tech beforehand. ?My peri said something about having to make sure that she records whatever we record, for insurance purposes, and she had to make sure that she had enough memory left on her machine to be able to do that, etc., so she didn't let us record the whole thing--just the last couple of minutes. ?My OB's techs never had a problem with it. ?

It kind of stinks to record it, actually, because you don't really get to pay attention to the actual experience of the ultrasound. ?If you can get your husband to hold the camera, that'd be ideal. ??

yankee42 · June 2009

i think it would be super cool if you can...i know where we live it's against the law

so i guess check that out first?

Germanwife2b · June 2009

We videotaped and then a quarter of the way though the tech turned around and saw what DH was doing and had a hissy fit! She said it was against the law or against their policy or something. She offered to let us record the baby at the very end but she said something about it being a medical document or for legal reasons. Needless to say, she was not very nice to us the rest of the u/s and we chose not to videotape anymore at the end:-( We didn't know:-(

somethingchangd · June 2009

DH recorded every single one of our u/s (and we had something like 12 of them). No one ever said a word about the legality of it and we had 4 different techs. He did use a regular digital camera on the video setting, though, so maybe they didn't realize what we were actually doing?

If you can get away with it, I recommend it - I love having all our u/s on tape!

GreenEyedGal · June 2009

We brought one to our big u/s and the tech didn't seem to like it very much. She even said that she didn't know if my doctor would be ok with it but I assured her that we took video of our very first u/s and the doctor didn't seem to care one bit. Anyway, I don't think it's weird at all! Go on and record!