Anxious about my mid pregnancy ultrasound. Anyone else?

Anto1992 · January 2015

So I'm getting my mid-pregnancy ultrasound done next Thursday and I'm anxious to the bone! I want to know the sex of my baby but I'm also kinda worried about what else I may find out. Anyone had their's already or in the same boat as I am?Please share.

MamaBish · January 2015

I have mine next Wednesday and, yes, I am very nervous. Excited to find out the sex, but worried about everything else. Seems like so many things can be/go wrong. I'm trying not to think about it and cause more stress. Just hoping it goes well for all of us!

mrs1374a · January 2015

Mine is next Wednesday and I am a little nervous. Excited to hopefully find out the sex, but I'm nervous about just making sure the baby is healthy.

dkleid · January 2015

Mine is Wednesday and im nervous. I had my blood work done to rule out Spinabifoda (sp??) and im nervous that something is going to come back wrong. Every test we have had so far has been fine so I have no reason to worry but yet I still do!

starkbaby22 · January 2015

After having a scary false positive results with the NT scan and then normal results from the Materni21 test, I wasn't too anxious when I had my AS last week. I agree with PP, most of the things people worry about, never happen. Also, what good does worrying do? NONE. Go into the scan with a happy heart about getting to see your LO! ♡ It's really such a good time!

silvilu · January 2015

Mine is this afternoon. I'm excited to find out the sex, if baby cooperates, but I'm pretty nervous about there being any medical issues. The screenings I've had have been normal thus far, but I still worry nevertheless.

blu-eyedwife · January 2015

wormgerm said:

Mine is tomorrow and I am more excited than nervous but yeah, still nervous. No genetic testing so if there is any major bad news to be had tomorrow is when we will find out.

This is where we are too.

@Anto1992, I'm going to give you the same warning I give others. It may not be applicable, but it's best to be prepared. Most of us don't have the ultrasound performed by our doctor, it's performed by an ultrasound tech. And while they do this all day every day and probably can pick things up right and left (I'm pretty good at reading the ultrasounds because I look at a lot of film in my profession) they're not diagnosticians. So usually the ultrasounds are given to a doctor to review before you're given any information. Which means you may walk away next Thursday without any information about the health of your baby - and that doesn't mean anything's wrong.

erbear84 · January 2015

Mine is next Wednesday and I'm more excited than anything. The NT scan and bloodwork was wonderful, baby's HB has been strong 2x since so I'm not nervous. If you've had great results so far, try not to be so nervous.

girlymama79 · January 2015

Mine is Wednesday. I am so freaking excited.

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junch817 · January 2015

I was very anxious about mine too. With my first, we had a few "we need to go back and look at this again in a few weeks" situations. Everything turned out fine, but I was extra nervous this time because of it, and knowing my daughter had to be there with us if we received any tough news. This time, all was good to begin with. I was so relieved, but to be completely honest, now I'm second guessing the clean bill of health - did she check this? I don't remember seeing that. She didn't say anything about this. Did the doctor really get a good look at the images? Did she get the final view of the heart, or just assume it was all good? - I'm a worrier at heart. Can't change it. It drives DH crazy. He reminds me all the time that worrying doesn't change anything, all it does is ruin your today. Stay and think positive!!

btm013 · January 2015

Is had mine last Friday. I was extremely nervous. We didn't want to know the sex of the baby so all the other what ifs came flooding out. But all was well and I'm sure All will be well with your little bean. Good luck aNd enjoy it!

ktpatter · January 2015

Try not to stress about it although I know it's hard! We had a great tech and I asked her from the beginning "are you allowed to tell me anything?" So I would know in advance if it was going to be a quiet process.

Luckily she said that she could say if things looked good but wouldn't say if anything appeared to be wrong. Of course the result was me repeatedly saying "is that normal? Does that look good?" Over and over.

Just know that science/technology are amazing these days and a lot of things they may see if they kind anything can resolve themselves. You'll be fine!

bossybluejay · January 2015

Mine is two weeks from today but I'm not really nervous. All of my nerves were centered around the first trimester until we heard the heartbeat at 12 weeks & the quad screen.

veggiemo · January 2015

wormgerm said:

Mine is tomorrow and I am more excited than nervous but yeah, still nervous. No genetic testing so if there is any major bad news to be had tomorrow is when we will find out. My motto for today is

Same here except my scan is on Wednesday. I was not this nervous for my previous pregnancy. I'm team green, but wasn't last time, so maybe that's it. The excitement of find out the sex maybe overshadowed anything else? But yes, definitely nervous but very much looking forward to seeing baby!

thelittlestbee · January 2015

We had ours this morning and maybe there was a tiny bit of nervousness, but I was more excited than anything else. Stay positive and good luck!!!

Anto1992 · January 2015

My dr does all my ultrasounds. So I'm hoping to get all the information next Thursday. Fingers crossed! I want a girl but what ever it is I'll still be vey happy. This is my miracle baby.

Sugarbean17 · January 2015

Mine is Wednesday. Honestly the only thing I have been worried about (which us totally stupid) is that we are going to zoom right in on the "bits". We are team green and I really don't want to know. So I know it's so unlikely that it would happen but it's been on my mind.
I hope the fears/worries you guys have end up being nothing.

KonaCoffeeBean · January 2015

I'm pretty worried about drinking two glasses of water and then having someone press on my stomach.

blu-eyedwife · January 2015

KonaCoffeeBean said:

I'm pretty worried about drinking two glasses of water and then having someone press on my stomach.

If it makes you feel better, DH asked the ultrasound tech if anyone ever peed on the table and she said no.

Bednarova · January 2015

I'm nervous only because we had a big scare with DS1 at his anatomy scan, despite all previous pre-natal screening being positive.

Everything turned out ok (no heart defect, no downs), but it was a really ephing scary 48h post A/S while we waited for the fetal echo appt and the FISH results from the (unplanned) amnio we had done during our AS. A pic of the MFM with shitty bedside manner popped up in my FB newsfeed about 10days ago and I wanted to hurt someone.

Same thing here, all testing so far has been normal. I'm trying not to think about it, but it's creeping in as it gets closer. Ten days to go.

devyns2nd · January 2015

@blu-eyedwife made a great point. No one ever told me that the ultrasound tech couldn't give me information. I stressed so much about why she couldn't tell me my DD was healthy. I just KNEW something was wrong. It wasn't! Thank goodness and I worried for nothing.

efeehan · January 2015

I am more nervous than excited about ours on Friday at this point. We have DHs first oncology appointment on Thursday. I'm trying to tell myself that getting to see baby will help cheer us up, but I'm just so scared something will be wrong. I am thankful that we meet with the dr right afterwards so there won't be any waiting for results. I just want the end of the week to get here so we can get these appointments over with!

LoriN103 · January 2015

@KonaCoffeeBean‌ I had mine today and was worried about the whole full bladder situation too. The tech made me use the bathroom mid-scan so she could see better and to get the baby to move.

Joolschweetheart · January 2015

Mine is tomorrow first thing and I'm massively excited (mainly because hubs is coming too for the first time and I can't wait to see his reaction). I'm nervous too but trying to let the excitement win!

flbabychin · January 2015

I can't wait for mine next week! I'm a little nervous too because I want to know that everything's fine, but I'm more excited. We've had healthy scans previously and are low risk, as far as I know. I feel like once we know the sex, we can start buying more things and really planning for the nursery, which I'm really excited for.

mindaa · January 2015

Way more excited than nervous... what makes me nervous is that "everyone" (family, coworkers) knows that it's today and will be expecting a report... which doesn't give us any time to process the news - both good and bad - as a couple.

The very attentive scheduler at my office said nothing about needing to drink water before the appt. Maybe the requirements are different there... but thanks to the ladies of TB, I came prepared with a full bottle of water in my car, just in case she dropped the ball.

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