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yrulaughing38 karma

It's like they don't realize you have to be pretty much supersonic to get past his sand shield anyway. AFAIK, no attack in Avatar is fast enough to even get past Gaara's innate defense.

yrulaughing10 karma

I'm glad you're doing this OP. I am a diagnostic medical ultrasound technologist that does plenty of pelvic and OB ultrasounds and people don't realize the amount of patients I see that have a different parity and gravidity. (Number of pregnancies vs number of live deliveries)

Definitely important to bring attention to the fact miscarriages happen on a larger scale than most people think. The topic becomes taboo and people don't talk about it and I'm sure plenty of women feel worse than they should about miscarrying. It's definitely a fairly common thing to happen.

That being said, 28 weeks is very late to see a pregnancy terminate and typically we don't see pregnancies miscarry so far along, so my condolences to you.

I suppose my question to you is more ultrasound related. How much prenatal care did you receive as far as ultrasounds go? Where I work it can be typical to get a 1st trimester ultrasound (before 14 weeks) or two depending on what is seen. After that a nuchal fold ultrasound can possibly be done at around 12 to 13 weeks depending on if your OBGYN is worried about chromosomal anomalies. Then you get your complete anatomical ultrasound at around 18 to 20 weeks. After that, ultrasounds seem to basically be ordered as needed.

yrulaughing6 karma

Interesting. I always check cord insertion at the 20 week ultrasound, but I haven't seen an umbilical vein varix in my career yet. Looked up some images of it after you mentioned it. It's definitely something the average tech would notice even if they might not know the medical terminology for it.

yrulaughing1 karma

Were there any personalities that were hostile to any of the other personalities? Any disagreements or gripes between them? How were these resolved?

yrulaughing0 karma

Split was also another good one involving multiple personalities, albeit with some supernatural elements. Great acting, but I can't imagine it's a very accurate representation of DID at all.