Please read!! Will eating chocolates help - 18 Week ultrasound?

Hope

I'm going for an ultrasound on Thursday - I will be 18 weeks exactly on the date. We really want to know the gender of our baby and are so excited!! Both my pregnant friends couldn't see the gender on the particular sonar because the babies werent lying right. Now, I've heard that I must have a bar of chocolate or coffee before I go to the doctor to make the baby more active. Has anyone had success with this? Will it be dangerous to the baby with all the caffeine? Any other suggestions will be much appreciated!!

Thank you in advance for all your answers!! Very much appreciated! Were just so excited. This is our first!

Answer
PLease please please... DO NOT have the chocolate...

The chocolate (or candy or simply anything sweet) will make the baby moving wildly and to be very active.
But - here it is - that will not, absolutely not make the gender revelation easier, because, the quick jerky movement and high activity will not allow the sonographer to focus on given area.
Plus... it will make the whole diagnostic test extremely difficult and he/she might miss some subtle details simply because the baby will not lie still for even a few seconds. He/she could miss very small spinal defect.. or some anomaly in the heart, which is difficult to see anyway and increased baby activity makes it nearly impossible.

Now, here is my advise - please, I BEG YOU, do not eat the chocolate for your 18 week scan. That is difficult diagnostic procedure and you want to know that your baby is healthy at the first place, don't you? If the tech can see the gender - fine, good for you (just remember, there are many places, where it is forbidden by law to reveal gender before 24 weeks of pregnancy - example of that is Vancouver, BC in canada, but there is a lot of such places - so you MIGHT be out of luck at your 18 wk scan anyway)... but if that is not against the law where you live, just go and wait, you might get lucky,.

If that was not visible, simply find a 3D ultrasound clinic in your neighborhood, schedule appointment there at your 30wks and then eat your chocolate. Because they there do not do diagnostic procedure.. they do not need to see kidneys and heart chambers. They will use special software to render the surface of your baby face and hands and feet and gender... and you will see baby waving hands and kicking and smiling etc.. and for that you do not want baby sleeping, but awake moving around...

I am a sonographer myself with over 15 years of experience, please, do not make our life miserable by eating chocolate before 18 wk scan. Plus, it did happen, and not only once, that we could not finish the scan since the baby was simply "flying around" and she had to come again a week later. It is a trouble for everyone.

Thanks for listening to me and good luck with your pregnancy and your baby.

Johnny

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