A note about early ultrasounds

Just FYI, I'm *not* pregnant.

Now that we've gotten that out of the way... ;-)

I have a rant about early ultrasounds. It's MORE than a rant, it is my angry, broken heart screaming out for some justice.

Many years ago, when pregnant with both my first and second daughters, we had early ultrasounds done ... around 6-7 weeks. Because we were using NFP to acheive pregnancy I was sure of my dates. With both of those first early ultrasounds, the U/S techs could not find a heartbeat. Nor could they find one on the second U/S a week later with my second born. We were told not to get our hopes up, that "these ultrasounds are very precise," and "if anything, your dates must be wrong" (that last one makes me LOL - by the time they *did* get a heartbeat, they were saying I conceived 3 days AFTER a positive home pregnancy test. Ummm, NO.). But in the meantime, they had implied that the pregnancies may not be viable and a D & C was an option to deal with that.

So being the techie nerd I was back then, I brought this up on several occasions on an online community I took part in. I was amazed as story after story was posted -- "I was 7 weeks and they couldn't find a heartbeat. They said I could go right to the hospital for a D & C but I said no, can we please wait. The next week there was a heartbeat and now she's 6 months old!" -- more and more stories to add to mine.

My heart breaks at the thought of an untold number of women blindly trusting their doctors, and going to get that D & C -- of a healthy baby that is just not showing up on the ultrasound like they expect it to! Early ultrasound is NOT the exact science the doctors and techs claim it is. There are just too many stories out there like mine for that to be possible. Join me in praying that yet another form of murder of innocent victims is stopped.