Entertaining_Angels
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kayd1966 said:Very interesting...I've also wondered about all the ultrasounds I had...how many did you have?
I had more than 25 with my son but more important than the number is the actual ultrasound equipment itself. Some machines operate at a higher intensity and would heat up the baby faster. Also, my son has speech delays and one of his speech therapists believes the speech issues are related to the ultrasound use. Hold on, I have a study, one sec...okay:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=8221427
Also, there has been some suggestion in recent studies that babies (or fetuses) are actually more sensitive to sound and pain in utero than after birth. The frequencies of the soundwaves in ultrasounds are above what we can hear but there is the suggestion that ultrasounds are actually like a jackhammer loudly reverberating in the womb and that babies actually move to get 'away' from the sound.
I really cut down the ultrasound use with my daughter. Tough thing, though, beause we want to see those babies. Some of my favorite memories of pregnancy were seeing my babies up there on the screen.
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