Is doing too many ultrasounds bad?

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Specially in early weeks?

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There is some evidence that too many ultrasounds can potentially damage tissue, but if you’re high risk, the pros of multiple ultrasounds can outweigh the potential risks. Those non-medical keepsake places aren’t recommended, but if your doctor is ordering them, it’s probably for a reason.

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There is a certain amount of risk with any procedure, and earlier ultrasounds are postulated to have a greater risk of fetal damage simply because the fetus is so sensitive in the first trimester - and there are so few cells that anything that hurts one of them has a greater percent impact than during later development.  I have done research in fetal development for a decade, and though there isn't some big fear over ultrasounds in the field it is know that observing something damages it - it just goes with the territory.  Ultrasounds though are a very gentle damage, and the use of them for a high risk baby well outweighs the minuscule damage - the only studies that have found damage from ultrasound have been extraordinarily subtle changes, nothing that would be noticeable except at the level of the entire population.  
Having said all that, for my baby I only have had the one ultrasound at 20 weeks and do not intend to have any more unless my doctor deems there to be a medical need.  My low risk pregnancy makes extra ultrasounds proportionately less safe.

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Due to my last pregnancy and a hemorrhage if we get pregnant again we will have one every week to every two weeks.

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I have to have them monthly and then every week closer to birth.

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some people say they are but there reeally isn't any proof. I wouldn't have any more than your doctor deems necessary though

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I would say they’re unnecessary until 12 weeks or after. Unless you are high risk or have something going on.

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I had one every appt and my baby is fine 😌

Is doing too many ultrasounds bad?

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