fashionista-ta said:
As far as danger to the mom & child ... to the best of my knowledge, there is ZERO risk or danger associated with sonograms. Please correct me if I'm wrong about this. It's done quite often with high-risk pregnancies.
A quick Google showed up this - pretty informative:
http://www.drgreene.com/21_839.html So far they look to be safe, but it is early in the science (the monkey thing freaked me out

and the key seems to be, as this doctor says, to use the science judiciously. Not as your new, weird hobby. I don't think it's sweet at all - framing your baby's occasional sonogram is sweet. Being there for the mother of your child if she's having a high-risk pregnancy and
needs more frequent sonograms is sweet. I just don't know why people (Tom) would mess with something like this, when experts are saying, "In
our hands, and done properly and within reason, it poses no danger, but there's no studies on doing it willy-nilly whenever you get the urge so we advise against it." But then there's lots of stuff, like x-rays and ddt and cigarettes, that were just
marvelous for you, according to doctors and the government
Not remembering where I heard the ear infection link - I don't want to spread misinformation. Since I've heard it from a lot of individuals and can't remember a medical source, it's most likely ancedotal
