I have my own personal reasons as to why i will not endure another ultrasound, definately not before the first three months are over. Every woman is different of course, and as far as i have read many women have had different experiences with pregnancy. If you are one of the lucky ones, and have not experienced pregnancy loss and have had good experiences with your doctors and health care providers during your pregnancy, I am happy that that was your experience.
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However, I have read countless comments from women giving advice to other women who have not experienced  similar heartache or cause for concern. I am definately one of the unlucky souls tht have so far experienced bad health care for my pregnancies, but have lost them and have found i am reaching for a far away goal of getting pregnant. when i know others have had this same experience, it still is way easier to have advice given from someone aring more on the causious side rather than from someone who would never have a cause for concern in the first place.
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I agree with the comments being made that just because the majority of people say something is safe, does not mean it is safe. I recently discovered that one of the tests that is performed to find out if your baby has down syndrome has the risk of causing a miscarriage, it also is not completely accurate either. So, you tell me, especially if you would not consider aborting your child anyways, I wouldn't. and if you did, you may have aborted a perfectly healthy baby. Also, you could have the chance of it causing an unnessisary miscarriage of your healthy baby, just from the procedure alone.
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My first pregnancy was reason enough for me to shy away from going to have an early scan. the first time i had an ultrasound, i was made to wait almost two hours after my appointment was suppost to take place, than asked if i could empty some of my bladder because it was extremely painful, I was told no. When I finally got to see the tecnician, she pressed on my stomach so hard it was excruciating. I told her I was in extreme pain, she did not listen to me at all, was very rude and basically just said thats because your bladder is full, like i didn't know that. after prodding and pressing on my stomach very hard she than said my bladder was too full and i need to let out some of the liquid. I was annoyed and in pain, but glad she let me let out some. I came back and she pressed again around my stomach with the machine, than said she couldn't see anything anyways, so she told me to empty out my bladder and did a vaginal ultrasound. through entire experience she did not say a thing and when she did it was rude or ubrupt. this was my first pregnancy and did not know what to expect. I also thought i may have gotten some reasurance or atleast something helpful from this. I left the clinic in pain and with no information at all about my pregnancy.
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Shortly after this experience I had a extremely painful miscarriage. Not only did I not foresee a miscarriage from the ultrasound or get any useful information from it, I have a concern that it may have been a not healthy choice to have someone be so careless, and intrusive before the first trimester was over. I rushed to the clinic when i started bleeding and was experiening more pain than i ever had in my life, the doctor i had a look and new that i miscarried. She was very caring and helped very much with my shock, which i would expect most doctor's or health care providers to be like, unfortunatly that is not the case. I was told to have another ultrasound. I didn't know what the purpose was really, I knew i miscarried and i just had to deal with it at home. I came back early the following week for the ultrasound, I was still raw with emotion and pain from previous miscarriage. the same thing happened with my appointment, i had a full bladder and was made to wait a very long time before my actual ultrasound. when my name was finally called, i told the nurse i was waiting a long time and am in a lot of pain. She said no and told me to change in a little room. I did, and then was told to sit there and wait, so I did; and while i was waiting i sat next to a door to a room with a woman listening to her babies heartbeat. It was really load and I could hear the technician and woman laughing. I was still so fragile, in pain and tired, I started crying and couldn't help myself but be in so much emotional pain. than the nurse called my name again, and i followed her to the hallway, but there wasn't anywhere for me to sit and she told me to just stand there. this was very physically painful. I ended up waiting for about fifteen min. just standing there, I finally asked her if i could sit down. She abruptly told me no, and the room would be ready soon. Finally my appointment with the ultrasound technician. She was not too unpleasant like the first one i had, but still the same thing, after all that waiting around with a full bladder she made me empty it and gave me a vaginal ultrasound. I left the clinic with no information whatsoever. And was really confused as to why I had it done it in the first place.
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This was four years ago, and two miscarriages with no successful pregnancies so far. I wish tht more people would bring up the complaints and bad experieces, so it wouldnt' be so lonely dealing with such heartache. There are good health care proffessionals out there, but from my experience there are few and far between. There is a lot of information out there and it is difficult to sort thru but if you are dilligent and want to make your own mind up; instead of just going along with whatever everyone else is doing, you may find that doctor's are not always right. And this is how i see it, pregnancy is a very personal experience. I know for a fact that no one will ever be as concerned or causious with my own pregnancy as I will be, so I trust myself more. When it comes to an early ultrasound before the three months, if the reason is for dating the pregnancy, I would know as much as the doctor, or it would not be that far off. If there were any abnormality to detect, for one they could be wrong and two I would never abort a pregnancy anyways unless it were a tubal pregnancy, and i would know something was wrong because of the pain. So, as far as getting an ultrasound, i dont' think anyone should be pressure to have one at all if they are concerned or feel it is unsafe.
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I would never ever wish the grief and pain i have gone through on anyone, and I know that others have had similar or worse experiences than i have. And I would caution some woman to not give advice based on just the fact that they had such a good experience or no problems and they have been told that this is how it should be from their doctor. You could be wrong, and if you are like me, the first three months can be so fragile, I never want to take any risks with the next pregnancy, if i am ever so lucky to even get pregnant again. So, I just wanted to say that I would never want someone to tell me that i need to get an ultrasound, especially in the first three months, It does not seem worth it to me and if something were wrong i would know.
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But on principle I agree with everyone else, that there is potential for risk inherent in the ultrasound, and they should be used mindfully.
) and it's early enough to decide on weird surgeries or whatever. I wouldn't be worried about previa at that point, but knowing if i had it, I might consider another later scan to check if it was partial or complete. Say at 38 weeks or something (I tend to go late). I wouldn't be doing an ultrasound a week or anything to see if it moved, like I've heard of some doctors doing...
