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Originally Posted by mommamin  I subscribe to mothering but my memory is working. Do you know what issue/month it was? Thanks Jillian!  |
I'll post it when I get home in a few hours
I'll copy some links from a doula friend too if you're interested in that.
Doula friend links:
Even the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the American Academy of Family Physicians advised against routine screening unless there is medical justification.
They do not recommend routine use of ultrasounds, dopplers, or external fetal monitoring during the course of healthy, low risk pregnancies.
Inventors never had routine use in mind for any of these devices in healthy, normal pregnancies.
Routine ultrasound use is frequently described as such:
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Routine third-trimester ultrasound examination of the fetus is not recommended. There is insufficient evidence to recommend for or against routine ultrasound examination in the second trimester in low-risk pregnant women.
From the Center for Unhindered Living here is 'The Dangers of Prenatal Ultrasound' (
http://www.unhinderedliving.com/pultra.html). I love the following analogy (studies [
http://www.mayo.edu/ultrasound/news/] support this by showing that the sound of ultrasound pulses are as loud to your fetus as a speeding subway train):
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Have you seen a woman with an extremely high voice break a glass by singing an extremely high pitched note? That is an example of what just ONE relatively slow sound wave can do. Ultrasound technology is based upon ultra high-frequency sound waves, which bombard the child in the womb at an extremely high rate of speed. If one slow sound wave from a woman's voice can break a glass, what can super high frequency sound waves do to your child? Ultrasound waves in laboratory experiments have been known to damage chromosomes, produce internal cellular heat which damages cells, retard the normal development of cells, and many other phenomenon.
The American Pregnancy Association (
http://www.americanpregnancy.org/pre...ltrasound.html) states:
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Because ultrasound should only be used when medically indicated, many healthy pregnancies will not require ultrasound.
The long term effects of repeated ultrasound exposures on the fetus are not fully known. It is recommended that ultrasound only be used if medically indicated.
Ultrasounds are only necessary if there is a medical concern...
...For women with an uncomplicated pregnancy, an ultrasound is not a necessary part of prenatal care.
Here's an article by Sarah Buckley ('Ultrasound Scans: Cause for Concern') about the use of ultrasounds, which includes a form that pregnant women undergoing ultrasound can ask their carers to fill out
http://www.icpa4kids.org/research/ar...ound_Scans.htm
Here's a Midwifery Today article written by Beverley Lawrence Beech - the author of the 'Ultrasound? Unsound' booklet ('Ultrasound: Weighing the Propaganda Against the Facts').
http://www.midwiferytoday.com/articles/ultrasound.asp
Educate Yourself articles ('Ultrasound Scans Linked to Brain Damage in Babies', 'Ultrasound Scans May Harm Unborn Babies', and 'A Warning From Dr. John Christopher on Potential Danger of Ultrasound Scanning').
http://educate-yourself.org/cn/2001/...e19dec01.shtml
