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Old 31-05-2008, 01:21 PM   #12 (permalink)
auden
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Originally Posted by Touche View Post
auden, a fetus at 7 weeks is around 3mm which is not really detectable by a group of medical students scanning transabdominally, and they'd be 3 weeks late for their period by that stage... so realistically an unsuspected pregnancy would be unlikely to turn up in a random teaching scan.
I wasn't suggesting that she wouldn't know she was pregnant - just that she might not have told us before she was chosen at random to be scanned and not given the option of saying no.... I know my peers well, but I don't generally expect to know whether they're pregnant as soon as they do
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