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Ultrasounds Questions

Total questions: 668

How soon can you hear a baby's heartbeat?
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How accurately can an ultrasound determine the date of conception?
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Is ultrasound scanning accurate enough to reveal a baby's sex at 20 weeks?
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Can an ultrasound be 100 percent sure of a baby's sex?
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How important is it to have an ultrasound early in your pregnancy?
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Is abortion the right decision if the child's brain is not found in an ultrasound?
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What does it mean if the ultrasound shows an empty placenta sac at 10 weeks' pregnant?
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Will an ultrasound scan date be accurate enough to determine who the father is if you have slept with 2 different men within a month?
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What does it mean that placental reaction is seen all around in the ultrasound?
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Is it possible to detect a heartbeat on an ultrasound at 5 to 6 weeks gestation?
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Can an ultrasound scan be wrong by a month?
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How soon can you see the baby's heart beat using ultrasound?
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Can ultrasounds tell if something is a fluid-filled cyst?
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Is having an ultrasound at every monthly visit safe?
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Is it necessarily true if an ultrasound tech told you you are pregnant?
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How accurate are ultrasound scan dates?
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Do they back date ultrasounds to the 1st day of your last period or your conception date?
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How off can an ultrasound be that estimated your last menstrual period the same at eight weeks and twelve weeks?
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Is it normal not to see the fetal pole at a six-week ultrasound?
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Can the exact date of conception be told by a dating scan?
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How can you tell from an ultrasound if twins are sharing a placenta?
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How accurate are due dates predicted by ultrasounds?
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If an ultrasound shows 3 lines or dots and 2 in front does it mean it's a girl or boy?
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What does GAEDD mean on a ultrasound picture?
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Can an ultrasound tell you exactly how many weeks and days you are pregnant?
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How do ultrasounds see babies?
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If an ultrasound on Oct. 22 said you were 9 weeks and 5 days and that you conceived between Aug. 14 and Aug. 27 is there a way it could be off by a month since you thought you conceived on July 19?
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Is the EDD given to you on your scan date from your LMP or by the date of conception?
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Is your pregnancy viable when the ultrasound done in the fifth week does not show the formation of yolk and fetal pole?
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Is an ultrasound EDD accurate if your period does not last normally seven days?
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If your LMP was Nov. 4 and 3 ultrasounds showed your due date as Aug. 11 and one said July 31 what are the chances you got pregnant the last week of September?
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How can you tell from an ultrasound whether the baby is a boy or girl if it is not obvious?
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Why does your baby's heartbeat vary so much around 12 weeks because the heartbeat was around 130 and now at 15 weeks it is at 158 bpm and should you worry that it is so high now?
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If you are today 16 weeks pregnant by ultrasound what are the chances you got pregnant on the 27th of September?
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If an ultrasound showed you were 11 weeks 1 day pregnant can you count back to see when you conceived?
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Who do you trust when determining the gender of a baby the sonogram or the gender lab?
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Does 'gaedd' have anything to do with 'lmp' when a scan is done because yours says this on the top of the picture?
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Do twin pregnancies develop at the same rate as single pregnancies?
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What does it mean when an ultrasound does not show anything at 5 weeks?
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How soon can an ultrasound detect pregnancy?
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Can anything be detected by vaginal ultrasound at 4 weeks and 3 days?
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When do you normally see the fetal pole on a vaginal ultrasound?
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When determining the sex of a baby should you trust a lab who tested the mother's blood for y chromosome or a sonogram?
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Can you count back the weeks of your pregnancy from a dating scan to see when you may have conceived if your LMP is unknown?
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How often does a doctor perform ultrasounds during pregnancy?
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At which month is it necessary to do an ultrasound scan because some doctors say 3 months and some say 5 months?
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Can the calculation done from an ultrasound report and the one made from your last menstrual period differ as much as 1 week?
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If an ultrasound shows an empty sac at 6 - 7 weeks is this more than likely a non-viable pregnancy?
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What's the difference between galmp and gaedd when an ultrasound is performed?
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Could you be pregnant if you had an ultrasound and there was no baby but something keeps telling you that you might be 2 weeks pregnant?
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If nothing is seen on an ultrasound at 5 weeks and 4 days is there any hope or will you miscarry?
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Can an ultrasound tell the difference between a 4-week-old fetus and a 7-week-old fetus?
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Is it more accurate if your doctor gave you a due date of February 18 and said you were 21 weeks pregnant but an ultrasound showed you were 20 weeks and had a due date of February 25?
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On 6th Jan your ultrasound was 18 weeks and 5 days does this mean you concieved between 9th and 12th september?
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When given a dating ultrasound do you need to subtract two weeks for an actual date?
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Does gaedd on an ultrasound picture have anything to do with a woman's last period?
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If the baby's femur length measures a week and 3 days shorter than the BPD which measurement is used to determine a due date?
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Is measuring the femur bone in an ultrasound an accurate way to give you an estimated time of conception?
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How likely are ultrasounds to miss a second baby if you've had two early ultrasounds that both showed only one baby and is there any chance there might be two?
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If you went to the doctor and they did an early ultrasound and said you were 5 weeks and 3 days pregnant could you have an early ultrasound at 3 weeks and 3 days pregnant?
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Could you have gotten pregnant two and a half weeks before an ultrasound estimated your LMP date?
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What would be the most logical reason that a baby would measure 4 weeks ahead on an ultrasound and can a scan be that much off?
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Why does the doctor do an ultrasound at 2 months pregnant?
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Does gaedd on an ultrasound indicate the time from conception to the date of the ultrasound?
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If you are 4 weeks pregnant is it possible for the baby to have a size of 13mm?
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What is the earliest a baby's gender can be detected?
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Your doctor says that an us is more accurate than lmp because a lot of woman don't remember their lmp and that you could ovulate at different times how true is this?
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What is a fetus's gestation age and due date when the LMP is unknown and can you count back the weeks at a dating scan to see when possible conception occured?
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If two ultrasounds done two weeks apart showed the sack and the yok but no fetus does this mean you will miscarry?
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How reliable is the estimation if after an ultrasound at 18 weeks they could not tell the sex of the baby but offered a guess?
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