1/2Photo: Mother and Child Clinic – IDKPhoto: Mother and Child Clinic – IDK– When should a woman go for an ultrasound? How do you know when it’s time?
“How does everything usually start for a woman? Of course, the first call about pregnancy is a delay in menstruation. Some women take it easy and wait for the belly to grow, which confirms their assumption of pregnancy. And some do not associate this with pregnancy. And they are partly right - the delay of menstruation is not always associated with pregnancy. There are women who are very much waiting for the delay, and already after 1-2 days after the expected date, they run an ultrasound scan to confirm pregnancy. So what is the right thing to do? When to go for an ultrasound and whether to go at all? The correct solution: contact your gynecologist, who will give you all the necessary recommendations. And if you are not in a hurry to visit the doctor, and decided to verify the pregnancy yourself, then you can buy a pregnancy test at a pharmacy or donate blood for hCG (chorionic gonadotropin is a hormone released by the placenta during pregnancy), which is more reliable and correct. HCG begins to be produced from the first hours of pregnancy. And if the tests are positive, and you really want to see this and see a little black spot in the uterus with your own eyes, then you should come to the ultrasound at 5-6 weeks of gestation. ”- At what time can you see the fetus?"Term of pregnancy is considered from the first daylast menstruation. At this time we can see the fetal egg. And we can not see. Why can we not see the ovum in the uterus? Firstly, because it hasn’t yet come down from the fallopian tube, i.e., you ovulated later than the average woman. Secondly, it (the fertilized egg), can. and is not going to go down, and this is a terrible complication - ectopic pregnancy. What to do? Us - send you to the gynecologist. You - go to an appointment with a gynecologist. So, we saw a fertilized egg in the womb - everything is fine. If the term is short, then, respectively, the fetal egg is small, and apart from the black circle in the uterus, we see nothing. ” - And when can you hear the heartbeat of the future baby?
"With the increase in gestational age they becomeyolk sac and embryo are available for visualization. Very important is the class and resolution of the ultrasound scanner. When examining with the abdominal sensor, the fetal egg, yolk sac and embryo are visualized earlier than with the examination through the anterior abdominal wall. Now we can talk about the gestational age, based on the fetometric data obtained by ultrasound. While the embryo is not visible, the period is determined by the average internal diameter of the ovum (the average of three sizes of the ovum, made in mutually perpendicular planes). As soon as we see the embryo, we can set the duration of the pregnancy according to its coccyx parietal size. The heartbeat of the embryo is usually determined when its size is 5 mm. Sometimes before. ”- Should I do an ultrasound at the earliest dates?“So, in the early stages of pregnancy, performingultrasound examination, we can establish the presence or absence of uterine pregnancy; determine the exact gestational age by the crown-rump length of the embryo; determine the viability of the fetus - the presence of a heartbeat. But the ultrasound diagnostician must also evaluate everything he saw: the shape and place of implantation (attachment) of the ovum, the shape and size of the yolk sac, heart rate, etc. Thus, conducting an ultrasound in the early stages of pregnancy is justified. This study allows the obstetrician-gynecologist to correctly plan the tactics of monitoring you. You can sign up for an ultrasound and appointments by calling 8-800-250-24-24 Clinics of the Mother and Child Group of Companies in Samara, Tolyatti and Novokuibyshevsk are one of the largest networks of medical centers in the Volga region, providing a full range of services in the field of family health. The Multidisciplinary Center IDK, which has been part of the Group of Companies since May 2013, has been successfully developing since 1992, having begun its existence with the implementation of laparoscopic surgeries and infertility treatment surgeries that were unique for their time. Our VKontakte group
