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Parents seek out high-tech ultrasounds

"Wow,” Richard Davis said as he walked into the reception area of Ultrasound Unlimited in Edmond. "Wow, we just found out we are having twins! I am really excited about this.”

Judy and Richard Davis from Wewoka, their children Chance, 5, and Riley, 3, and Richard's grandmother, Doris Davis, 88, of Oklahoma City shared the joy of seeing twins, a boy and a girl, on the ultrasound screen. The appearance of twins surprised everyone except Chance, who told his parents earlier he was going to have a baby brother and sister to play with and to teach. After all the excitement, Chance crawled under a table and said he was a tiger.

"This was my first ultrasound with this pregnancy,” Judy Davis said. "I'm 33 weeks, and it's so standard to get ultrasounds, people just could not believe I hadn't had even one. I decided to go in for measurements of the baby, see how the baby was developing, if we were having a boy or a girl. It wasn't for photos or DVD. Richard and I just wanted to see two arms and two legs on the ultrasound screen, and we saw more than that.”

Barbara Pennell, a registered sonographer and owner of Ultrasound Unlimited, provides diagnostic ultrasounds as well as 3-D and 4-D photos and DVDs for parents. Three generations watched the screen as Pennell pointed out images of Baby A, a boy, weighing 4 pounds 13 ounces, and Baby B, a girl weighing 4 pounds 10 ounces.

Pennell's office filled up the morning of July 17 with the Davis family, Randy and Cheryl Ross from Ada, and a couple from Oklahoma City.

Ultrasound centers in malls and offices outside medical facilities have become big business, and the demand for their services is increasing in Oklahoma and throughout the country. The 3-D and 4-D ultrasound technology provides expectant parents detailed views of their baby and keepsake packages to begin their infant's photo album before he or she is born.

It was the fourth ultrasound for Cheryl Ross, who is expecting in early October. The Rosses are fascinated with the progress of their first child, and as the couple watched 4-D images of their baby on screens, they were rewarded with a tiny smile from the baby girl they have named Kaylee Faye.

"I'm up to my neck in hay right now,” Randy said, referring to the 1,500 acres he farms with his grandfather in Stonewall. But the couple made the appointment a priority. "We wanted to get a 4-D ultrasound and a DVD of the baby to show our family, and our friends recommended Ultrasound Unlimited.

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