Update to my not so very pleasant appointment yesterday!

Re: Update to my not so very pleasant appointment yesterday!

• shanmoyer member

  February 2010

  wow!! I'm glad that the tech was able to give you another look and that she looks great!

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• doremi29 member

  February 2010

  Yay for one head!!!

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• nessahm member

  February 2010

  doremi29:

  Yay for one head!!!

  lol

  

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• Qmommy member

  February 2010

  lol... you'd think the doctor would've figured out that it was the mirror reflection considering you've had other ultrasounds with no evidence of a 2nd baby in there!

  

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• agdudley08

  February 2010

  I'm glad everything looks good.  I would imagine though that your doctor knows a good bit more about reading ultrasounds than the tech.  They have never lifted the wand off of my belly when they move it.

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• nessahm member

  February 2010

  Yea who knows what she was thinking. I love my doctor, she's amazing. I just wish she hadn't done the ultrasound if she didn't know how to operate the machine properly - it would have saved me a night of heart ache. I guess that is why they have trained ultrasound technicians since not all doctors are trained to operate the machine properly. I've had ultrasounds performed outside of her office, one time at the hospital (for a scare in the beginning of my pregnany) and another for my first tri mester screening and both times a trained technician has performed the ultrasounds, never a doctor.

  

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• ColieJ

  February 2010

  vaness1229:

  long story short, yesterday my doctor got worried because the baby was sitting low so she decided to do an ultrasound herself as the ultrasound tech had left for the day. Since my doctor is not a trained ultrasound technician she did the ultrasound wrong and thought she saw another baby in there.

  Today the ultrasound tech called me after hearing what had happened and said that sometimes when you don't lift the ultrasound probe and just slide it across the belly - it can cause a mirror image. This would explain why my doctor saw two heads and extra limbs.

  Anyways, the tech felt really bad and asked me to come and did a free ultrasound!! I got to see my baby girl again and she is such a cutie pie! No double heads!

  While it is FABULOUS that you got to go back in for another "proper" u/s, any OB should be trained in how to use an u/s. 

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• MrsAmyB

  February 2010

  Qmommy:

  lol... you'd think the doctor would've figured out that it was the mirror reflection considering you've had other ultrasounds with no evidence of a 2nd baby in there!

  Not necessarily!  I had u/s that showed ONE baby too.  But they weren't looking for more babies.

  I get u/s's every other week and they never lift the probe; they glide it across my belly.

  I agree with the others, Dr's should be trained to do U/S's properly.  All of my Dr's take an additional peek after the tech is done and they know what they are looking at.  If your Dr. doesnt know what s/he is doing, then s/he shouldn't be performing u/s's.

  Love: 8/2000 | Marriage: 7/2005 | Baby makes three: 3/28/2007 | And one more makes...SIX?
  
  Steal my kids picture or pretend they are yours, I will find where you live and ship all of their dirty diapers to your doorstep. Promise.
  

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