How many ultrasound scan during pregnancy? Anyone got poked too hard during scan?

I’m under subsidised route at kkh, I’ve had about 3 scans now, week 6, week 12, and week 20 which is recently. The week 20 scan hurt so much as the nurse was trying to get all the arms, legs and kidney and heart measurements. And she also poke too rough to my stomach and shake/slap my belly a few times to make my baby move. Is that normal? She seems like middle age lady from China. Now I’m scheduled to have another scan after 4 weeks, but I’m scared it will be too rough again.

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Same here, middle aged Chinese lady with glasses on and hair bun up. I did my detailed scan last week at KKH ADC. She wanted to scan baby’s kidney, by pressing roughly on my belly and it was quite painful at that moment! She seems very impatient though.