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kareik01 · May 2014

I just had to share my story from my ultrasound yesterday!

My H wasn't able to be there because of limited time off at work, so I had my sister go with me. So it was me, my sister, the ultrasound tech, and an ultrasound tech student.

Baby had been moving yesterday like normal, so active in the morning and pretty mellow after lunch. Well as soon as that ultrasound head hit my stomach, baby was a madman! Wherever she put the head, baby moved, kicked, twisted, etc! It was so funny to watch and feel. And it was kicking so hard that the tech kept laughing because she could feel it every time! And baby did NOT want us to see it's face! It twisted and turned for 5 whole minutes before we finally got one picture of it!

So after probably 20 minutes of finding and measuring the different parts, she asked if the student could try for a while to find and measure different things. I said sure (as if I was going to say no to extra ultrasound time!). So she was having the student try to get the head and measure the circumference. They had it in real-time 4D view, and as soon as she finally got a good view to measure, the baby shook it's head back and forth like it was saying, "NO!" It was the funniest, cutest, most perfect timing I have ever seen! I had tears in my eyes because it made me so happy and laugh so much!

And baby is a little above average weight right now, growing happy, healthy, head down, and everything seems completely normal

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dawnangela79 · May 2014

The night before my anatomy scan I had the worst dream, the tech was showing us the baby's face and it had the face of Pauly Shore (the 1980's Pauly Shore). I was devastated and my husband was furious! So when we went to our actual ultrasound I was nervous. Everything ended up being just wonderful, perfectly healthy baby girl with a cute baby girl face!

kshare18 · May 2014

I'm so jealous! I don't think I am going to get any more ultra sounds

My visits are all quick, everything looks great kind of visits. boo.

LilSip0611 · May 2014

When I went for my cervical check a few weeks ago, the MFM came in to double check the measurement and as they reinserted the probe baby A starts kicking full force right on my cervix to the point where the tech and the doctor just started laughing really hard. No, baby girls, as much as I'd love to meet you now, you need to keep cooking for awhile longer!

kareik01 · May 2014

kshare18 said:

I'm so jealous! I don't think I am going to get any more ultra sounds My visits are all quick, everything looks great kind of visits. boo.

Good problem to have I suppose! That'll be my last ultrasound, too, assuming things continue to go well. And my next appointment is in 3 weeks and it's the Glucose test. Also boo

shaylagirl · May 2014

My clinic doesn't do the 3D U/S just to keep things "fair" across the board. If parents want them done electively, they have a place they'll send you to to have them done.

I was semi-aware of this, but at my last visit (it was a follow-up of our a/s since they couldn't see where the blood was exiting the heart), I just asked my tech "Do we ever get to do one?"

At which point he told me all of the above, but mentioned that he's trained to do them, they have the ability, but they're just not allowed to for billing purposes.

After he gets the shots he needs, he says "Don't tell." And then -WHAM- on the monitor mounted to the wall, I see this:

I went "Ohmygosh! I won't tell!!!"

He said he couldn't resist because the baby was in such a good position to take these pictures, and he really likes being able to do them.

I got to see the kiddo playing with the umbilical cord and, go figure, my kid flipped me off at one point.

It was just such a surprise that he was kind enough to do it for me, and so entirely unexpected.

haliebabyx3 · May 2014

We don't really have any. Ours was so stubborn. I even had a Mt. Dew with breakfast to get him moving some. Nope, didn't work. He stayed in a ball and wouldn't budge. Finally when he came out from the ball we saw his goods plain as day as he was trying to move away. She looked at us and said she was hoping we were wanting to know, because there was no denying he was a boy. Looked like he was trying to swim the way he was moving.

violajack · May 2014

cruelsound said:

I get six billion + u/s during each pregnancy so, now, my H and I just use it as time to catch up on our sleep. The room is warm, dark and pretty quiet, it's hard not to take a nap.

This is totally how I felt at the end of my last pregnancy. I was going in bi-weekly for NST's. My husband didn't need to be there at all. I didn't watch the ultrasound because we were team green and the tech moved so fast just getting fluid levels. I just relaxed and read a book.

awalter5110 · May 2014

When we went for a growth scan last Friday she was stubborn as always! Thankfully the tech is an old friend of mine so we all just laugh when she tries to get a shot and baby moves. Right around the end of the scan she was in a great spot for a couple profile pics so she got a few and gave them to us, and then we caught baby actually drinking fluid! I know this is normal, but it was so crazy to actually see it on the screen! At first it literally looked like she was talking (LOL) but then I was like oh wow she is drinking! It was fascinating and so cute to watch her little mouth go. Lol.

DanRae801 · May 2014

We had a 4d ultrasound yesterday and our little girl was very stubborn and would not move her hand from her face and when the tech tried to aggitate her to get her to move it, she moved her other arm in front of her face and would grab her arm as in she was saying "Leave me alone, I do not want you to see my face." We did get a good pic of her pouting. She was mad and had her lips puckered out...it was so cute but it looks like we are going to have our hands full

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