Ultrasound scans during pregnancy

What is a Pregnancy ultrasound scan?

Ultrasound images, using ultrasound. The group still reflected sound waves will appear on the screen throughout the body, and sends the image conversion. Ultrasound that is revolutionary women during pregnancy.

In the United States of America is a standard Ultrasound examination is usually held the woman for the first time to participate again and often antenatal pregnancy week 18-22.

How is ultrasound scanning carried out?

Better control by adding a small 10 weeks of pregnancy in the tube is like a basin even saturate. Only a few millimeters long, appears on TV screens.

In the later stages of pregnancy control will be carried out through the surface of the abdominal cavity. Ultrasonic Gel spread on the skin and then handed the uterine fetus and the placenta. As a rule, a pregnant woman and her partner can watch scan monitor.

What is ultrasound scanning used for?

Ultrasound is used in various stages of pregnancy, for various reasons. An ultrasound scan of the first phase before 14 weeks of pregnancy is often the subject is still alive and are used to control a single or double or triple.

The length is measured from the fruit can be identified when the child is appropriately.

Some inequalities on stage (also known as the nuchal thickness) in the back of the neck thickness skin chromosomally risk is also used to calculate measures 14 weeks 11 to any potential can be identified.

It is possible to examine in detail the fetus from week 18. Organ systems can be identified to provide most of the fruit develops normally. Skull, vertebral column, brain, heart, lungs, kidneys, legs and everything. Overweight can be a mother amer, quality research is bad.

30 weeks onwards, often used an ultrasound for the evaluation of the child, which is looking to grow. It's hard To comment on this, but it is often useful, if the child in the past or the condition can affect the growth of the child, such as eclampsia.

Circulatory system also examined in the umbilical cord to see if it works well enough to carry sufficient oxygen and nutrition to the fetus.

Typically, or placenta (placenta praevia is known as the State) by manual examination of the placenta is located near the control position is unusual.