For the next two hours the vigil continued, with Jets fans glancing at the gate where the players enter the field, like so many expectant fathers checking and re-checking their watches.
Enterprising ultrasound techs are said to be charging between $100 and $350 so that expectant parents can have a sonogram performed in their homes as friends and family look on.
These physicians stressed that, "The labor rooms are not in a good condition; they should be equipped with clean restrooms and baths, so that expectant mothers are able to take a bath whenever they need to.
Both qf-PCR and rapid FISH methods, such as Fast-FISH, enable informative results to be obtained in a matter of hours [ 4, 6], so the expectant couple can be informed if the fetus is affected by Down syndrome or not within a very short time-frame, instead of having to wait for almost 2 weeks.
One of the hopefuls is Shannon Nation, who has invented a beach chair for pregnant women, providing a big hole in the middle so that an expectant mother can lie prone.
The "taster sessions" have attracted about 100 volunteers so far – mainly expectant fathers, although a few thrill-seekers have apparently signed up too.
Other reasons may include the fact that ultrasound is so appealing to expectant parents that attention is not paid to detailed aspects of the examinations [ 9].
One nurse at a public health clinic in the Coche suburb of Caracas said the shortages were so acute that only expectant mothers were being tested for Zika.
