Hi,
I'm a writer busy on an article about a pregnancy in 1995 in South Africa. I wonder if someone can help me with terms.
At 12 weeks, I had some sort of ultrasound (I think) to ascertain whether I had aborted my pregnancy. The gynecologist carried the machine into the room, so it was portable. He put a transducer (gadget) onto my lower abdomen. We heard the heart beat immediately.
He subsequently admitted the machine wasn't really sensitive enough to pick up a heartbeat so early in pregnancy. However it did - and the "dead fetus" was born on time and is now the father of two.
Any help with terminology would be appreciated.
Thank you from S.Africa