Ultrasound Technology
I read an article from a friends blog and was nauseated by the way ultrasound technology is used to capture images and information from a mothers womb.
“Ultrasound technology is based upon ultra high-frequency sound waves, which bombard the child in the womb at an extremely high rate of speed. If one slow sound wave from a woman’s voice can break glass, what can super high sound waves do to your child? Ultrasound waves in laboratory experiments have been known to damage chromosomes, produce internal cellular heat which damages cells, retard the normal development of cells, and many other phenomenon.”
Personally, I wonder how stressful this can be on a child. The last thing I want to do is have the first thing presented to my child be negative feelings and abrasiveness. I know they can’t be free from pain forever, but I’d like to know that I am capable of protecting them 100% of the time while they are growing inside of me. My job is to protect them, not subject them to hostile technology.
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Everyone should be informed of these risks so that we can actually give informed consent. Instead many doctors are telling women that there is no risk at all. We’ve got to stop ignorantly following the doctor’s advice and start taking responsibility for what we allow our bodies and unborn babies to undergo. Educate yourselves!
Being that I had a lot of ultrasounds at the end of my pregnancy due to my son’s size – I take these with a grain of salt – flame me all you want – but my son turned out just fine. For me – the ultrasound was to protect both of us. And if it wasn’t for an ultrasound – my friend’s little girl wouldn’t be here today. Her big brother was stillborn when the 1st sonogram didn’t detect the cord wrapped around his little neck, but when his little sister was born – her level 2 sonogram (which I’m assuming is higher in waves) showed she had her cord wrapped around her neck. So take what you want from this post – but I have never once in my research found an article where ultrasound/sonogram technology hurt a child.
Stepping off my soapbox.
Kristen I first want to start off with saying that I love you! You are a marriage away from family to me, and my intention is never to make you feel like I am attacking your personally.
My mother also had ultrasounds done, on myself as well as on my brother. Most of my friends have also had ultrasounds. I could never sit here and say that someone is wrong for choosing to have one done, but a majority of women aren’t educated on potential effects of the technology used on the unborn, so they are simply taking a doctors word that the use of this product is “healthy”. The reason I blog things of this nature is not to degrade anyone who thinks opposite of myself; it is to provide education to those who may be unaware.
As a woman who intends on having children, I want to be 100% educated on the choices I make for my children, both pre-birth and post-birth. I will make the assumption that most mothers do the research on the best foods to feed their children, on the best option for schooling, on the best church…is it wrong to also take the time to educate ourselves on the practices being used when they are growing inside of us? I don’t think it is. We wouldn’t trust anyone else to raise our own children, why should we trust a doctor to determine what is healthiest for them?
I am honored to have your opinion posted on this blog; that is the full intention of why I write these things! And I would love to see the research opposing this article, advising that an ultrasound isn’t an unhealthy form of technology. I am a person who craves new information, so please feel free to give me additional insight!!
Research is a great thing! In my honest opinion though I think articles like these scare young mothers. But that’s my opinion. LOL! And I totally respect those who don’t believe in u/s. As a worrier by nature – not knowing how my child is growing (or just by hearing the heartbeat from a stethoscope) would wrap me in worry and that is not healthy for the child either. Now I’m going to blog about this. HA! It’s got me going. Silly girl. I do love your blogs. It gets me thinking too.
Don’t misunderstand, I also had ultrasounds with both my girls; my issue is with the lack of information that doctors share and the UNnecessary uses of ultrasounds and the plain ignorant following of doctors by so many women in this modern age. For example, with my older daughter, several weeks prior to my edd my doctor expressed concern over the growth of my baby so she scheduled our fifth u/s. I learned later that my daughter had weighed 5lbs at that time. Had I known what I know now or at least questioned my doctor’s concern I would have established that my daughter was perfectly fine and still had several weeks left to put on additional weight if she needed to. She was born at 7lbs 5oz. Another example of an unnecessary u/s was when I was about 7 or 8 months pregnant with my younger daughter. My doctor, after insisting that it was “very, very, very, very” common to see and “very, very, very, very” rare for it to become a problem, told me that the u/s showed what seemed to be a kidney flap functioning inappropriately. Being more educated at this point I asked questions to better understand what this could/would mean and what would need to be done. Turns out nothing could be done yet and that if my baby did have this problem she couldn’t get surgery until she was FIVE YEARS OLD. I thought it silly to get the u/s and declined. On top of that my doctor got mad at me as though I didn’t care about my baby! My daughter is almost two and has no problems with her kidneys, praise God.
I look forward to the future conversations that Jeni’s blogs stir up. 
God bless!
We don’t have to agree; it’s good to talk about these things and I appreciate a good conversation no matter if we agree. I’m not looking to be right or say to anyone that they are wrong; I want truth and to understand it.