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No Ultrasound at 1st visit?!
Hi- I am 8 weeks pregnant, and had the most distressing visit yesterday @ Drexel Med/Hahnemann. we were fully expecting an ultrasound- only to be told that they do not do ultrasounds until the 12th week. from everything that I have read, it is customary to have an ultrasound at 8 weeks! Have I picked the wrong practice?! We were impatiently waiting for this visit before announcing our pregnancy, so imagine the deflation when we were told that we will have to wait another 4 weeks!
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Re: No Ultrasound at 1st visit?!
That is definitely frustrating!
I had my first visit at 8 wks and they did an U/S. I do know that some offices do go by the 12 wk mark though. Its not too late to make a switch if you dont like the office. But i wouldn't switch just because you didn't get to see the LO.
Mine only did an eight week U/S to date the pregnancy because I wasn't positive of my LMP. Otherwise its 12 and 20.
I had one at 7 weeks to rule out an ectopic pregnancy, solely because I was having some pain and I lost my last pregnancy at roughly the same point. Otherwise, they would have sent me at 12 weeks. Your little peanut at 8 weeks is so tiny that it just looks like a blur on the screen. It wasn't all that exciting, except that I got to hear that nice strong heartbeat.
What they told me at my 8 week appointment is that if we were planning to tell people before 12 weeks, that after they find a heartbeat at 8 weeks and it's solid and regular, your chances of early miscarriage drop dramatically.