Press Date: 01/20/2010

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There are questions about the new 3D4D ultrasound for expectant moms. They can give you great pictures of your unborn baby, but who should get them? How often and who should perform them. Tonight we get the fast facts from the pros at Riverside Maternal Fetal Medicine.

Kendra Fultz is about to get the best look at her unborn baby. At almost 30 weeks pregnant she is having a 3D4D ultrasound done at Riverside Methodist Hospital's Women's Center. The view that doctors and moms get of this little guy is stunning.

"We can get some really amazing 3D pictures. So from an esthetics point of view the pictures can be tremendous."

3D is a detailed look inside the womb using sound beams; 4D is in real time.

Dr. Fox performed one on me and we got to see my baby girl. Can you her face in there?

While I was in excellent hands with Dr. Fox, this isn't something to do for non-medical reasons or without talking to your doctor first. Doctors tell us they discourage the use of so-called entertainment imaging or just getting the image because it looks cool.

But for doctors this is a great way to get a look at anything that might be wrong.

"The types of abnormalities that we find an advantage with the 3D4D tend to be the surface abnormalities. Things like abnormalities of the hands and the feet, perhaps of the face, things like clef lip."

And for Kendra, it's piece of mind that her son is growing right on track.