Hi all -
Have had a bumpy start to my pregnancy as was suspected ectopic to start with, then my GP told me I was likely to miscarry & then, whilst I was in floods of tears and told him I had another hospital appointment, changed his tune and told me "oh, well then wait and see what happens".
Anywhoo after that bumpy start I was being monitored from early on in my pregnancy so I had an internal scan at about 5 weeks to determine the location of the pregnancy (luckily all is growing in the right place!) and then had to come back 2 weeks later at 7 weeks to find the heartbeat (which again, was there. So thankful!). As I suffer from Acute Anxiety Disorder anyway and am managing this via counselling I was understandably very nervous and paid for a private scan yesterday at 9 weeks.
That works out at 3 scans in the space of 6 weeks and the sonographer told me she thinks women should only have 2 ultrasounds in their whole pregnancy as the heat from the ultrasound could cause issues. I'm assuming she means issues with development as opposed to causing miscarriage but this has worried me now. I also have my 12 week scan booked in in three weeks time and am wondering if this is now too many scans!?
Have done some Googling and found people who had difficult pregnancies and needed constant scans but am just wondering if anyone else had a lot of scans in their first trimester?
Am sure am worried bout nothing but as its my first its always lovely to hear reassuring things! Sorry for the long drawn out story too, just didn't want to miss any details!