The madness of others

With my ongoing worry of twins, I looked up when the uterus is meant to rise out of the pelvis. I found a lot of people who rely on the height of the fundus (top of uterus) for dates as they don't want ultrasound. Including people who were measuring several weeks further on than they thought they were and suspected twins but refused to have an ultrasound.

Huh?

So I googled "reasons not to have an ultrasound"...

It causes autism apparently. And the screeching of the ultrasound will be intolerable for the foetus. And it can make your child left handed.

I jest not. Here is one such discussion:

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/opinions/5239/

(soz, you have to copy n paste)

Incidentally, the link provided in that collection of paranoia does mention investigating causes of autism but does not mention any connection to ultrasound.

Why is ultrasound used? because it's safe.

Reasons why to think otherwise is idiotic:

The sound thing: foetuses (foetii?) do not have canine hearing. They do not "hear" ultrasound.

There's a mention of "the sound waves on microwaves being hot enough to heat food".
Microwaves ovens: use microwave radiation. There's a clue in the name.

People really do amaze me sometime. Oh how blessed I am with an enquiring mind.

Insanity

This may turn out to be an extra one, because it is that time of day where worry, sore tummy and nausea* prevent sleep.

(*and the morning spent asleep)

Stupid stupid worry, I worry that I'm going to worry a problem into existence.

I have conflicting worries, which make less than sense:

Worry one: that I experience a missed miscarriage/blighted ovum and there's nothing there when I get a scan in 200 years time.
(actually in between 5 and 8 weeks, but time goes so very slooooowwwwly when you're pregnant)

Worry two: that it's twins.

Illogical, huh? One extreme or t'other.

I may have mentioned both, I forget. I forget most things actually, as the pregnancy progresses, the more repetitive these entries will be.

The evidence would suggest an entirely normal singleton pregnancy. Tell that to my paranoid brain.

I WANT A SCAN!!!!!!! The fact that nothing would show up yet is irrelevant. It's not that long to wait and as long as I feel diabolical and nothing falls out - it's ok.

Bedtime reading: What to Expect When You're Expecting.
Again.

Happy statistic:
Chance of miscarriage having not had one and having had a previously live birth is 5%. Even if I'd never had a previous pregnancy, the rate for age 35-38 is 18%.

Worry is a silly thing, it wouldn't make it easier if the worst happened. Shush shush silly brain. Enjoy the, err, something pleasant about this stage...

Incidentally, chance of second and subsequent set of fraternal twins is 1 in 300.

Worry be gone!

We still don't have any boys names and it's 15 weeks till we find out about that one.