Questions & Answers

With my son, my insurance only allowed 4 ultrasounds unless there was a problem. You might want to call your insurance and see how many they allow.

My doctor this time around has an US machine in the patients rooms so she said we can have as many as we want since I am pregnant after a miscarriage and scared to death! Having one tomorrow and will have another at my 10 week visit.

I live in Florida, and I wouldn't be getting another ultrasound if my blood pressure wasn't high. It's been high the whole pregnancy (chronic hypertension) so my doctor said I'll probably get another ultrasound at 28 weeks to make sure he's measuring okay since those with chronic hypertension usually have small babies. I wouldn't worry about it :)

I have been measuring ahead, at, my recent midwife appointment I was 3cm ahead and was ordered an ultrasound. Everything looked normal except baby had a 93rd percentile abdo circumference. Now I have to have a long diabetes test to rule that out.

I'm not on Medicaid though I'm on Medicare, which is different. In my state since I live in Maine it's called Mainecare, and they don't really have much for limitations on ultrasounds. Literally half of my friends that had kids were on it and they had growth ultrasounds and weren't even measuring different than I am lol. It's just my doctor's office apparently.

I do not know a lot of drs that do ultrasounds after the anatomy scan unless an issue comes up. That's pretty much routine unless you have complications. Most drs can accurately tell the size of the baby by merely palpating your abdomen. My Dr was only off by a few ounces when he estimated size. Since you're on Medicaid, that limits how many ultrasounds you can have unless a complication arises. I did have a 4th ultrasound at 32 wks with my first due to her developing a fetal arrhythmia. At 32 wks, she was already over 5 lbs - the size of an avg 36 week baby. Despite her huge size, they still didn't do further ultrasounds bc as my Dr said, women have been pushing out 10 lb babies since the beginning of time. I wouldn't worry about size or complications due to size. Most babies grow to be just the right size for the mother's body.

That thought hadn't even crossed my mind lol! Don't think it's an insurance thing though. I'm on a federal insurance plan (medicare) and know plenty of people who were on it and had a scan done around this time to check the baby's size. I'm thinking it depends on the doctor's practice.... I'm a patient at a practice that is within my hospital. There's like 4 doctors and 3 or 4 midwives and they rotate the patients so I see all of them throughout my pregnancy. Early on I had problems (SCH that was right next to the placenta) so they monitored me very closely and I'd had 4 scans by 9 weeks along lol! Had another done at 13 weeks and my final one done at 18 weeks.