Creepy Ultrasound Photos!?!

So my last pregnancy I was blessed with an excellent ultrasonographer who really took time and care to get some good profile pictures at my anatomy scan. This round though all the photos look like my baby'sface is melting off. I guess this ultrasonographer is horrible at taking pictures and the 3 D images and videos are terrifying. I didn't want to share with friends and family. I found a reddit about other people who had similar experiences, so I was wondering if anyone wanted to share bad ultrasound photos or compare and contrast photos that were good from one pregnancy and awful from another. Even better if people wanted to share a compare and contrast of some bad ultrasound photos that followed with the birth of an adorable baby to ease my mind a bit. I had to continuously ask what I was looking at throughout the ultrasound as well. It was a bummer. They didn't count toes or check for cleft lip that I noticed unless they did it silently this round. Was a disappointing experience. I really tried to advocate for myself too but the best profile I got out of them was a blurry image or the baby's face mostly turned away.

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They send the images and videos to my phone. I would share the videos but I can't download them for some reason so I could only screen shot. In the first round the video makes it look like the baby has a peg leg. They said everything's fine though. Not really sure what they all checked because they are shit at labeling the photos or even communicating when I'm in the office. I'm just trying to have some faith that my babies face is not actually covered in giant lumps and or melting off.

I also love how they did almost as many shots of her genitals as her face( not. )It seemed like he did some adjustment on the genitals shot to make it clearer but when I ask for a few more 2D shots of her face since the 3D image was so difficult to make out the response was 'already did that.' I already knew I was having a girl at 12 weeks because I got the chromosome abnormality blood work. It's like I don't want a bunch of keep sake photos of my kid's genitals as they develop, but thanks. With my last there was one photo printed off that was labeled 'it's a boy'. That was good enough for me.

@Alice the baby looks a little more skeletal in the second round but at least they tried to get some good side profiles for you.

We did get 1 good video of her pulling a little face tho 😂

@Julia she's adorable! Thank you.

I had the same experience. They seemed shocked when I said I didn’t want any of them printed but they were just terrible. I think it’s in part due to the positioning of the baby. In fairness they had me visit on two different dates to get a better shot and each time they got me to move around to try and get the baby to move but it just didn’t happen. Don’t worry as she is a perfectly cute adorable baby.

@Louise I think there is a focus knob because I swear he had this shot of my baby's legs where he was like' see nothing between the legs ' but it looked like there was lol. Then it seemed like he pushed a button and bam it was in focus. It's like couldn't he do that with the photos of her face?

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