Ultrasound: Good or Harmful?

So I came across this article the other day summing up the latest study done on prenatal ultrasound. It’s not a big surprise, but the study concludes that ultrasound may very well change how your baby’s brain is developing in utero. Not surprising, but disturbing nonetheless. However, what is really disturbing to me is the interpretation of this study by some.

It seems at this point (perhaps thanks to Tom Cruise’s purchase of a personal ultrasound machine) everyone pretty much agrees that ultrasound for “entertainment purposes” is not a good idea.
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Due Date Calculator: Alternatives to Ultrasound

So, you don’t have a last period date to go on, or you’re cycles are irregular enough to not know which end is up. How do you know how pregnant you are? Is ultrasound the last resort, the only way? For so many women it is, and many doctors insist on routine ultrasound when there isn’t a period date to go on. But for those opposed to ultrasound (or for those just wanting that first pregnancy challenge) there is another way.
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Why Nutrition is SOOOO Important

Nutrition is the most important factor in predicting how well a pregnancy will go, and how both you and your baby will fare. This may seem obvious, but I have lived the medical mainstream pregnancy and I can tell you (or maybe you can tell me!) that this is not common knowledge in that world.

Now, in much of the slightly alternative pregnancy/birthing world, that is not the case. In my first pregnancy (which was OB-hospital based) not one person, ever, who was caring for me, asked what I put in my mouth on a daily basis.
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