Does ultrasound sonography harms the child inside in any way?

Ohhh, people are always saying that something is bad for you! When I was pregnant with my twins I had an ultrasound every couple of weeks and with my son I had them once a month. My kids are all fine! Don't let people freak you out! If it was so harmful then the doctors wouldn't be able to do it!!

I don't think it hurts the child. in the US every onne is given an ultrasound at around 5 months pregnant to check on the progress of the baby. Some doctors give 2 or 3 over a womans pregnancy. I don't think they would do that if it could harm the baby. And for everyone having them done, there doesn't seem to be a bunch of kids running around with ill effects from having an ultrasound done to them.

getting one will not make it so that he/she wont come out not having a arm or leg. scientist have done studies on mice about it. i think if you get more then like 2 it can harm the baby... but once again its not like they wont have a body part or be mentally impaired because of it... many doctors don't recommend more then one, some wont even do one.

Chances are ultrasound isn't exceptionally bad for moms or babies, but I still choose not to have one. Some of my reasons for disliking ultrasound (and many "modern marvels") is that they are used routinely without merit. They're an expensive procedure, and doctors push multiple scans often without good reasons. A first ultrasound is usually done to "verify" the pregnancy & determine how far along it is. Most women know their bodies, know when their last period was, know when they were intimate & if doctors took the time to talk to their clients they'd have a pretty good/reasonable idea of how far along they are. There isn't usually any reason to know down to the day how far along a pregnancy is, and besides ultrasounds are often very inaccurate in determining dates once the pregnancy is past the first few weeks. A skilled doctor or midwife can assess fetal size simply by spending a minute or two measuring & feeling a woman's fundus during a routine exam- no need for a test that runs a few hundred dollars or more! The abnormalities that can be found through ultrasound are things that are pretty uncommon & have to be verified through amnio, the CVS test or other genetic testing. A doctor taking a good oral account of a couple's family medical history should be able to decide if an ultrasound or other testing is in order & only do them if it seems they are. And they create a false sense of security. Many conditions just aren't detectable by ultrasound, but parents usually feel if they've had a 'normal' one, that everything is fine. For the overly worried, first time parent this may be of some benefit and it may ease some undo worrying but imo even that benefit is marginal. Bear with me if this sounds a little out there, but women tend to become very intitive during a pregnancy. If mom feels like something is wrong, her body or her baby may very well be telling her something is wrong. Rather than send her in for an ultrasound that may or may not find what's going on, I think moms would be better served by having their concerns listened to, evaluated (which might also include an u/s) and dealt with if needed. And my final concern and biggest concern about u/s is that they can lead to more unwarrented & risky procedures. My first born was 2wks "past-due", my u/s 4 weeks before his birth showed that he was already about 7 lbs. My doctor tried so hard to convince me I should induce ASAP before I had a "monster" of a baby that would require a section (insert eye rolling here). Well, 4 weeks later I birthed a teeny, tiny 6lb 1oz baby boy. If I had listened to my OB instead of my body, my son may very well have been born dangerously underweight & under-developed. I hear stories like that all the time. Babies that are still breeched 3 weeks before the due date being sectioned early rather than just waiting for the baby to turn. Babies that seem big, but aren't. Babies that seem to have proper lung development (when there is other reasons to induce mom as soon as reasonable) but in fact do not. Sorry to have babbled so much in your discussion, but it's a subject I feel very passionate about.

Yes, I heard about this too that ultrasound will harm the baby. But I don't think it is true. I think the advantage of ultrasound for the doctor to check your baby's condition and prepare the preventative actions if necessary still outweigh the risk of it. The doctor will only ask you to do ultrasound if it is necessary anyway.

Ultrasound is bouncing sound waves off the baby to get images and does not harm the baby. I have seen untrasounds being done on babies quite frequently and nothing happening to them. You do not want to have X-rays on a developing fetus that will harm the fetus.