Anyone else not getting their first ultrasound until week 20?

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It seems like absolutely everyone has super early ultrasounds, but the practice I go to does the first one at 20 weeks. They will use a Doppler to listen to the heartbeat at 10 weeks. Anyone else also not getting their first ultrasound until later?

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We get one at 8 weeks, 12 weeks, 20 weeks and than depends after that

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I’ll never understand why doctors don’t ALWAYS order first trimester scans. I mean...they talk about how we need to minimize stress and anxiety while pregnant. I don’t think I started breathing normally again until after I saw my baby’s heart fluttering around. 😳

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We get the NT screening at 12 weeks, otherwise I’d probably be in the same boat. 😞

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I had one at 6 weeks d/t spotting and lower back pain and again at 8 weeks (everything was okay) now I won’t have another until 20 weeks.

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My doctor won’t order one till 20 weeks either. Since I can’t wait that long I go to a private scan place.

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My dr office does 10 weeks 12 weeks 20 weeks and 36 weeks.. you can always pay to go to an ultrasound place!

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My friends place is like that too, I guess the only thing that worries me about waiting that long is knowing the baby is growing where it should be growing and not in your tube etc.

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An early U/S is how they date you, measure baby, determine viability, etc. Atleast from my experience at the practice I go to. I just had an appt yesterday and my MW told me the reason they do that first U/S in earlier weeks is bc it’s most accurate at determining how far along you are, by measuring baby’s CRL, versus a scan later on bc eventually they measure head to toe once baby is big enough and baby could be scrunched up a bit meaning measurements could be off. Without my early U/S my DD would have been 6-26-19, but my DD is now 7-5-19 bc baby is measuring smaller than expected. Just my personal experience at my practice. You could prob request an U/S tho if you wanted to ease your mind and see baby 😃

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If I started prenatal care when they recommend to, we would have had one around this time. I am, however, waiting on insurance and even then, will probably be out a few weeks till we get to see our baby! Probably closer to 16 weeks. Looking forward to it!

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My first is at 12 weeks , I got Friday

Anyone else not getting their first ultrasound until week 20?

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