Every pregnant woman is advised to have a second trimester ultra sonogram. Ultrasound examination is a procedure where high frequency sound waves are used to scan the pregnant woman’s abdomen to see the 2 or 3 dimensional images of the baby in real time, and look for the presence or absence of any abnormality in the baby, placenta, the umbilical cord and the water surrounding the baby. It even checks for the blood flow into the baby. Baby’s internal organs are visualized and if there are obvious abnormalities, can be picked out easily.
Second trimester ultrasound is done to diagnose many issues: fetal malformations such as Down syndrome, other defects like neural tube defects, to verify dates and growth of the fetus, to confirm multiple pregnancies, to confirm fetal death in the womb, to see if the water surrounding the fetus is normal ,increased or decreased, and to evaluate the well being of the fetus.
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