Csection makes ultrasound harder to see?

Question

I’m just wondering if this sounds normal… I went to my anatomy/full body scan, I’m 21 weeks. She said the baby looks great but we had to reschedule a half hr appt for her to do another scan because she said she couldn’t get a good view of her heart. She mentioned sometimes csection scars make it a bit harder to see something so intricate so I’m going back when I’m 24 weeks so she can look at her heart again. Does this sound normal? She is the OB who is a diagnostic sonographer so she knows what she’s doing… I’m just scared 😟 any input? 
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Same issues but earlier on and not with the anatomy scan. this will be my 4th c-section. luckily baby was higher up for the anatomy scan but we did have to make him move because he was hugging the anterior placenta which made seeing his face and checking for cleft lip very difficult. i would take it as a sign of a good doc that they want to be sure if the results rather than guessing.

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With my first I had to get the anatomy scan three times because my bubs was lying in such an awkward position! Not sure about the c-section scar but pretty common to have to go back! At least you get to see bubs again. 🥰

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I had a cesarean, but no mention of scar causing issues with visibility. My baby had her spine facing out last week, so they had me come back this week for a better view of her heart. She was still spine out this week, took 45 minutes and 2 techs to get the picture they needed. Everything was normal. 
I would guess they just want to get good images of everything with you and I don't think there's any reason to worry.

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I've had 4 c-sections, and I was told with this pregnancy I have significant scarring from my previous sections. This has pretty much been the thing with each pregnancy especially with my last pregnancy being twins.nothing to worry about though.

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The same thing happened to me with this baby. They didn’t say it was because of my C-sections but because my uterus is still too far down. They want to see me again at 28 weeks.

Csection makes ultrasound harder to see?

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