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  • They were items that Carly had collected: photos from their honeymoon, a four-leaf clover they'd found while vacationing in Vancouver, the bouquet of peonies and calla lilies she'd carried on her wedding day, ultrasound images of Josh and Kristen while each was still in her womb, along with the outfits that each had worn on the way home from the hospital.†   (source)
  • A gall-bladder attack or a liver abscess could cause fever and jaundice and abdominal pain—the red eyes she could not explain—and she ordered an ultrasound examination of his liver.†   (source)
  • Obviously, we're not going with the nine-month model here, and we can't get an ultrasound, so Carlisle is guesstimating from how big I am.†   (source)
  • Since the 1990s, the spread of ultrasound machines has allowed pregnant women to find out the sex of their fetuses--and then get abortions if they are female.†   (source)
  • After an ultrasound, she found out she had a cyst near her uterus that was the size of a melon.†   (source)
  • But I loved it, and how he'd get real quiet if I started talking about an ultrasound or something going on down there after I saw the gynecologist.†   (source)
  • Several months earlier Tara had had an ultrasound done, and Mortenson had seen the fuzzy aquatic image of his new daughter.†   (source)
  • I saw it, small and hardly recognizable, when we had the ultrasound during Month Six.†   (source)
  • It was getting better, the inflammation was going down, and AP was doing ultrasound on my shoulder.†   (source)
  • Tell me what you saw in the bathroom. shampoo, tooth gel, an ultrasound brush and shaver.†   (source)
  • Did you ever think that maybe she knew someone who did the ultrasounds?†   (source)
  • She looked so real on the ultrasound screen that sometimes I'd forget she was still inside me.†   (source)
  • The ultrasound machine is from a German doctor who had once visited; he sent his old one.†   (source)
  • Lacy glanced at the ultrasound screen, where Alex's baby was frozen in a moment of time.†   (source)
  • I was surprised at how effective the ultrasound felt that night.†   (source)
  • He sent her for an ultrasound.†   (source)
  • Ultrasound says it's a boy.†   (source)
  • After five minutes, I started to worry—Kurt was on duty today, and had taken his lunch break early so that I could go to the ultrasound without dragging Elizabeth along.†   (source)
  • "The ultrasound wouldn't work.†   (source)
  • It was perfect: She was really due just before I was pretending to be, which meant that she could pass her ultrasound pictures to me and I could show them around a couple of weeks later, passing them off as my own.†   (source)
  • In Fujian Province, China, a peasant raved to us about ultrasound: "We don't have to have daughters anymore!"†   (source)
  • But since time is of the essence, I'd recommend a transcranial Doppler test, which uses ultrasound to measure blood flow through the carotid arteries at the base of the brain.†   (source)
  • Fact one, Bella'd said that the creature was protected by something as strong as vampire skin, something that was too impenetrable for ultrasounds, too tough for needles.†   (source)
  • Most ultrasounds are printed with the woman's name and due date and other personal details, but hers weren't.†   (source)
  • He had applied the ultrasound cream to my shoulder and then had draped a towel over it while he was working on it.†   (source)
  • It was no surprise when a month later I gave birth to Claire—an infant who looked nothing like her father, as she had that day at the ultrasound, but who instead was the spitting image of the sister she would never meet.†   (source)
  • To prevent sex-selective abortion, China and India now bar doctors and ultrasound technicians from telling a pregnant woman the sex of her fetus.†   (source)
  • The combination of the one-child birth control policy and convenient access to ultrasound testing means that parents routinely check the sex of a fetus and get an abortion if it is female.†   (source)
  • I was treated to numerous ultrasounds.†   (source)
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