Excited and a bit scared are normal reactions when your doctor or midwife schedules you for a 6-week ultrasound. It’s exciting because you get to actually see what’s going on inside your body.

Eleven weeks is the earliest that sex determination can be carried out with an ultrasound using a method called the ‘nub theory’. ‌All babies have a genital tubercle, informally called a ...

A positive pregnancy test and plenty of morning sickness are proof enough that you’re pregnant, but your first ultrasound — often around 12 weeks — provides a different kind of evidence that ...