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[PhuturePriest]

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Your doctor would have no way of knowing if it was wrapped around your neck inside the womb, unless you were already out of it...
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There is a way they can tell. If the pregnancy is not going the way it should they probably did an ultrasound to see what was going on. I don't know because I'm not a doctor, but this is an occurrence that happens. My future brother-in-law had it happen to him, for instance.

[r2Dtoo]

Ultrasounds? Please, whether or not they can correctly determine your babies gender is questionable. No doctor in his right mind would induce early labor from that.

If there signs that a pregnancy is "not going well" late enough the doctor may decide to induce early labor. That does not mean he specifically knows what's wrong or even if anything was. The cord could also have been wrapped around your neck in the womb and it could have shown no signs of it. That's what happened to my sister who was about a year older than me. She was stillborn.

[Mark of the Cross]

Even though I am the way I am, I was still born.

[Ed Normile]

[quote name='r2Dtoo' timestamp='1345917396' post='2474119']
Ultrasounds? Please, whether or not they can correctly determine your babies gender is questionable. No doctor in his right mind would induce early labor from that.

If there signs that a pregnancy is "not going well" late enough the doctor may decide to induce early labor. That does not mean he specifically knows what's wrong or even if anything was. The cord could also have been wrapped around your neck in the womb and it could have shown no signs of it. That's what happened to my sister who was about a year older than me. She was stillborn.
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My neice's ultrasound was in color and showed not only her girls gender, it was live motion and you could see the toes and fingers moving and it looked like a picture.

ed

[arfink]

Yeah, modern ultrasound tech uses multiple wavelengths from different angles and a very powerful computer with a high sampling rate to get some amazing images. I bet that's what they used for you niece Ed.

[Nihil Obstat]

I've seen my own intestines on an ultrasound.

[arfink]

Yeah, the old grainy ultrasounds of the past are way old-school now:

Old style:
[img]http://bdfbuzz.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/2d_ultrasound3.jpg[/img]

New Style:
[img]http://www.4dultrasound.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/4D_Ultrasound_Images.jpg[/img]