最近想寫的東西很多,但工作結束之後,總是先把陪伴父母跟孩子擺到第一位,體力有限,常常陪睡人自己先睡著....
(應該是因為真的體悟到無常的人生裡,愛要及時)
今天想說的是“高層次超音波”(Level II ultrasound scan)
既然是level II ,一定就有Level I超音波(就是最基本的產科超音波,看胎兒大小,羊水量,胎位,胎盤位置等),其實在產檢的設計裡,並不是每次檢查都需要做超音波,只是因為在台灣,超音波檢查的可近性很高,大家習慣了就會覺得沒做超音波好像很奇怪,很沒安全感。
Level I 超音波在不同週數的目的不太一樣:
第一孕期(13周前):主要確認子宮內懷孕跟胎兒發育,校正預產期。
第二/三孕期:確認胎兒大小,羊水量跟可能有問題的狀況(如胎盤位置過低)
緊急狀況:如早期宮縮,出血時評估用。
level II顧名思義,就是進階版的產科超音波,通常單胞胎會選在妊娠週數20-22周間(多胞胎18-20周),做一個從頭到腳系統性的器官檢查,但主要都是以2D跟Doppler超音波掃描為主。我喜歡用“期中考”的概念提醒準媽媽,使用逐項檢查的方式,及格代表目前發育程度過關(但不是100分),發育中的問題不見得百分之百可以在中期一次性篩檢完成,59分也可能只是發育較慢(需要持續追蹤),子宮內胎兒的發育一直在進行著,所以通常後期追蹤能是必要的,但如果沒做篩檢,根本沒有機會早期關注追蹤。
臨床上常見到的問題是,很多媽媽誤以為3D/4D就是高層次,或是認為自費的檢查都在“騙人”。其實健保產檢10次的檢查裡只給付一次普通超音波(level I超音波,而且才350點,1點不等同1元),重要的是操作的人員是不是有足夠的訓練,能夠系統性的測量,並在有異常發現時能夠做出鑑別診斷,提供即時性的諮詢跟相關的檢查。
如果第一孕期曾經做過頸部透明帶檢查,通常可以有一個快速的系統性檢查篩檢,包含神經管缺損跟早期肢端異常,但6cm跟600克能看的東西不同,熟悉胚胎發育的正常生理現象可以避免臨床上過度診斷的恐慌。
至於北部的高層次為何收費如此高貴?其實羊毛出在羊身上,專業是有代價的,通常也都會有技術員+醫師雙重把關,正式圖文報告(或影像)跟充分諮詢的時間空間,中南部的檢查自然無法與之匹敵,但慎選一個學有專精的醫師,或是由擁有充分醫師諮詢資源的放射師(超音波技術員)來執行這項檢查,才能最大化level II超音波的目的。
最後,也是最重要的是,超音波的檢查有它的侷限性,並不是所有的問題都可以透過超音波發現,也可能受限於準媽媽本身體型(脂肪層厚度),寶寶胎位或羊水量而有所差別。還有很重要的是,檢查醫師(技術員)的專業是需要養成時間的,所以用健保的350點要求同等的檢查內容,有一點不可思議(基本上完全是不正確的心態)
以下附上美國超音波醫學會建議的檢查清單為參考。
同時也有1部Youtube影片,追蹤數超過8,140的網紅Mama College,也在其Youtube影片中提到,This video briefly teaches you how to use a fetal doppler to detect your baby's heart rate. http://www.facebook.com/mamacollege In this video, you wi...
doppler ultrasound 在 Plus Size Kitten Facebook 的最佳解答
There seem to be so many friends of mine and Brian that have either recently had babies, are soon to have babies, or will probably be expecting babies in the future. This is my plea to you:
There will be times your child will scream and cry any time you try to put him or her down. Or they'll cry even as they're in your arms and you've done everything you can possibly think of to get them to stop. There will be sleepless nights, multiple diaper changes in a matter of minutes, spit up in your hair, pee on your shirt, and poop in your hands, and again - so much screaming from the baby, and probably from you as well. Every time that happens, every time you feel frustrated and want to run away, please remember my story:
My sweet, sweet Eleanor Josephine was born sleeping September 11th. I went to bed the night of the 10th, and she was kicking away. I woke up, and she wasn't. I couldn't find the heartbeat on the home doppler. I knew. I just knew. I didn't want to know...I wanted to be mistaken, but I knew.
We went to Labor and Delivery immediately, praying the whole way there. They tried the doppler - nothing. Before they put the ultrasound wand on me, they ran the heartbeat monitor over my belly - nothing. My heart was sinking fast, and I remember thinking "This can't be happening...this is just a dream...this can't be happening...They'll find something on the ultrasound...just *something*." But these were feeble hopes, because again, I knew. I could tell they knew, too, but no one said anything until Brian (who was parking the car) got there. I could tell they were delaying, "Oh, the ultrasound machine sometimes takes a while to boot up." "I think there's something wrong with the wand...." Finally, Brian was there, they did the ultrasound, and there was silence as they all exchanged nervous glances. Finally one of them matter-of-factly said, "Hi Natalie, I'm Doctor ______ (I don't remember her name, but you don't want to know what I call her in my head). I'm sorry...there's nothing there." I keep having flashbacks to that moment. It's a crippling, all-consuming feeling of utter suffocation, and a memory that will haunt me for the rest of my life. In that moment, I felt trapped as if the ceiling was literally crashing down on top of me. I couldn't breathe, I lashed out, I screamed, I threw things, I threw up...and then a piece of me died with her. I was helpless to change anything. My body was supposed to keep her safe, and instead it killed her. I was 40 weeks and 6 days pregnant.
A couple of hours later, I was induced. They offered me an epidural, but I couldn't do it. I needed to own it. I needed the pain, the agony, and misery to mirror what I felt in my heart. It was the hardest thing I've ever done. Ever. Dealing with the unbearable contractions, the ring of fire, the tearing...knowing that all of it was for nothing. I was delivering a lifeless child. There would be no happiness at the end of it to help me forget the pain. The pain, unlike my baby girl, would live on forever.
Then finally, after those hellish few hours of labor, she was placed on my chest - gorgeous, but lifeless. There was no reason to expect that first little cry from her. Instead, it was me who sobbed. I begged her through my tears to wake up: "Please wake up, baby girl...please, wake up. Why won't you cry for mommy? Please, please, please....just wake up."
She was beautiful. She was perfect in every way. I love her so much, and the devastation I felt, and still feel, cannot even begin to be described. We got to spend 6 hours with her. We took hundreds of photos. A photographer from "Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep" came by and took even more. I bathed her, I brushed her hair, I held her, kissed her, and told her how much I loved her. And I apologized over and over again for failing her. Oh, how I failed my beautiful baby girl.
They offered to allow us to say the night, but I couldn't stay there any longer. I couldn't bear the thought of leaving my daughter, either, but I knew I was just prolonging the inevitable. As time went on, she was looking less and less like the flawless child that I brought into this world. I couldn't keep watching her deteriorate in my arms. I knew she couldn't feel any pain, but I was feeling it for her, and I had reached my breaking point. I wanted to die with her.
Around 11:30pm, we said our final goodbyes. As I stood over her and spent those last few minutes with her, blood was cascading down my legs and onto the floor. I didn't care - my womb was crying. Everything about me was crying. Watching them wheel her away broke me. My life ended then and there. They wheeled me out of the hospital and I screamed and sobbed the entire way.
Monday was the funeral, and we had to go through the whole thing again. Seeing her one last time (my legs gave out from under me at first sight), singing to her, touching her cold, lifeless face, telling her how much we loved her, and me, apologizing over and over again for not being able to protect her. It was a small, intimate ceremony - 9 people total. Immediate family only. We all took turns blessing her. And once again, we said our goodbyes.
Everyone gave my husband and I one last moment with her, just the three of us. And when we were done, he and I walked arm in arm down the aisle, as our family held the doors open for us as the end of the room. I flashed back to our wedding day as we walked down the aisle as husband and wife and the doors were held open for us. The memory was such a cruel juxtaposition to the current reality. Our wedding march was joyous. This was a nightmare, this was morbid, this was wrong. Everything about it was wrong. I can still see that tiny box draped in a white cloth that held her tiny body. I had to leave her there in that cold, empty room; all alone all over again. It's a nightmare that just won't end.
I say all that to say this: my womb, my heart, and my arms are empty. There are going to be so many of you who have babies who are going to cry every time you try to put him or her down. Or they'll cry for no reason even if you're holding them and you've fed them, burped them, changed them...everything. And inevitably you're going to cry too, because you will feel so helpless and so frustrated and so clueless, and you'll want to scream, "Why won't you stop crying?!" You're going to be exhausted and angry and fed up and all you're going to want in this world is just a little time to yourself so you can sleep or shower or or eat whatever. I know, because I've been there with my son. But I will never be there with my daughter. And I would give anything to suffer as only a mother (or father) can in those dark moments of parenthood with her, my dear Eleanor.
So please just remember, while you're awake at 3am because you have a baby in your arms keeping you up that late, I'm up at 3am because I don't. And I would give anything in this world to have a baby spitting up on me, being colicky for all hours of the day and night, screaming, not letting me put her down, cracking my nipples from breastfeeding, keeping me up all night. Instead, I still have a stitched nether region, painfully engorged breasts no baby will suckle from, a flabby stomach, an empty womb, and blood that will continue to pour out of me for who knows how many more weeks. As if her death and birth wasn't traumatic enough, I still have to live with the physical effects all these many days later.
All I ask of you is when you have your dark moments with your baby - when you're at your wits' end and feel like you can't go on anymore when you're only getting an hour or two of sleep a night - instead of begging your child to go to sleep and being swallowed up in your frustration and exhaustion, find the tiniest bit of strength within you to keep going, and say a prayer of gratitude for your child, as difficult as it may be in that moment. And if you would, say a prayer for me and all the mothers whose children were taken from them too soon. Say a prayer for my sweet, sweet Eleanor who never got to know life outside my womb.
Please. Do it for Eleanor. And do it for her mommy who loves her and misses her beyond measure.
doppler ultrasound 在 Mama College Youtube 的最佳解答
This video briefly teaches you how to use a fetal doppler to detect your baby's heart rate.
http://www.facebook.com/mamacollege
In this video, you will
1) understand the pros and cons of using a fetal doppler
2) understand the basic function of a fetal doppler
3) receive simple instructions on how to use the fetal doppler
I had a wonderful time listening to my baby's heart rate. I hope you will too!. Enjoy!
Please do not hesitate to ask me questions by leaving me comments!
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Kayi, Mama College
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