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To wonder why some sonographers are so tactless?

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nosexpleaseimpregnant · 20/08/2011 10:44

I've been mulling this over for the past couple of weeks now and I was just wondering if anybody else has had a bad experience when having a scan?
Almost 2 weeks ago we went for the dating scan, booked by the antenatal team based on dates from an early pegnancy scan. Whilst me and OH were quite happy/excited to see what we have made the sonographer started mumbling that baby seemed small and she couldn't make it more than 11 weeks. She turned to us and said 'baby's a bit small. Did you consent to the downs screening?'. At which point me and OH looked at each other with a WTF? look. She merrily returned to scanning my stomach and OH blurted out....'Is there something wrong?' to which she said 'No I was just making sure you had handed the form in'
She asked me to go out and drink some more water to see if she could improve the scan and then, whilst sitting staring at my drink thinking the worst she came out and said 'ok I figured it out. The early pregnancy scan showed you were 5w+ 6 days. We've documented it as 6w+ 5 days. Panic over. But you'll need to come back next week as you are only 11w+0'
I didn't know whether I was more relieved or pissed off at the general lack of consideration shown to us in the first place!!
Any other bad experiences out there?

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tuxedoprincess · 26/08/2011 14:28

YANBU glad some people have good experiences but I too had slight bleed in 12th week and was sent for a scan to be told why did you think you were pregnant!! nothing there. went home in tears and heamorraged that night and had to be taken in for a D&C after I was told I had been pregnant as there were 'products of conception' removed... altogether not a great experience. next time round things were different as I was sent for an early scan and the sonographer was great, had to do an internal scan and I was able to see my babies heartbeat even though it was only 8 weeks, this pregnancy went ok and I had a lovely baby boy at full term. guess as in most things it is often down to individuals but I will never forget the insensitivity of that first woman.

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