Ultrasound scans for every stage of pregnancy
Early Pregnancy
We understand that early pregnancy can be exciting, worrying and confusing all at the same time.
Our scans in early pregnancy can be booked from as early as 5 weeks and can provide you with reassurance that your baby is developing in the right place and help to provide you with a guide as to how far along you are.
Sex Determination
Whether you’re #TeamPink or #TeamBlue, we know that sometimes just knowing what you’re going to have can allow you to start planning.
At Your Baby Scan, we can find out the gender of your baby from as early as 6 weeks by a simple blood test, or we can find out their sex using ultrasound from only 16 weeks!
4D Bonding in HD
Following your 20 week anomaly scan with the NHS, it can feel like an age until you’re going to meet your baby. You can feel them moving around and kicking you when you’re trying to get to sleep, but you’re still left wondering what they look like. Do they have mum’s chin, or dad’s nose?
With our 4D bonding scan meet your baby in 3D and 4D with HD as standard.
Presentation
Towards the end of your pregnancy, and those final few weeks of waiting for your baby to arrive, those “what if?” questions that you often experience in early pregnancy start to surface again.
At this stage of pregnancy we can determine your baby’s position to help you prepare for birth and their weight.
What type of scan for your gestational age…
We understand that it can often be confusing to know what type of scan is best for your stage of pregnancy, so scroll through our timeline below to view the scans are are most appropriate to your gestational age. If you don’t know how to calculate your gestational age, you can use our handy gestational age calculator.
Gestational Age Calculator
Your Results
Note: This calculator provides an estimate based on your last menstrual period. For the most accurate dating, please consult with our sonographers.
5 – 8 weeks
Early Confirmation Scan
Also known as a Pregnancy Viability Scan
A scan to confirm the location of the gestational sac, and embryo development. Scan will start as an abdominal scan, but includes an internal (transvaginal) scan if needed. Typical confirmation scans are less than 7 weeks and therefore the heartbeat cannot normally be visualised reliably at this stage of pregnancy; if you are more than 7 weeks during this scan you’ll be able to see your baby’s heartbeat on screen too.
7 weeks+
Early Reassurance Scan
Also known as an Early Pregnancy Scan
Short 2D scan (Black & White) to confirm pregnancy and check the health of developing embryo and fetus at this early stage in pregnancy. This scan offers an opportunity to view your developing baby before you’ve had your NHS Hospital appointment
9-20 weeks
Dating Scan
Short 2D scan to determine the age of your developing baby, and provide you with an estimated due date. This service is often provided as part of your NHS care, but we acknowledge that NHS scans do not offer the opportunity for friends or family to attend your scan and join in the experience.
This should not replace your NHS Dating Scan
10-14 weeks
Dating Scan
This scan is performed by the NHS, not Your Baby Scan.
The purpose of the dating scan is to check:
- how many weeks pregnant you are and work out your due date (the estimated date of delivery, or EDD)
- whether you’re expecting more than 1 baby
- that the baby is growing in the right place
- your baby’s development
This scan can detect some health conditions, such as spina bifida.
15 weeks+
Gender Scan
Also known as a sexing scan
Our Gender Scan is specifically to find out the gender of your baby from 15 weeks onwards. You’ll have the opportunity to find out whether you’re having a boy or girl during the scan, or choose to keep it as a surprise and add one of our gender reveal products to take away on the day.
18-21 weeks
Anomaly Scan
This scan is performed by the NHS, not Your Baby Scan.
The 20-week screening scan, also called the anomaly scan, is an ultrasound scan to look for 11 different conditions in your baby. It also checks your baby’s growth. It’s usually done when you’re between 18 and 21 weeks pregnant.
Note: Checking the sex of your baby is not a standard part of the NHS anomaly scan. The NHS does not provide time, training or insurance for their sonographers to determine the sex of your baby. If the sonographer does this for you, they do this without cover.
8-38 weeks
2D Reassurance Scan
Our 2D Reassurance Scan is intended for any time in pregnancy, not just in early pregnancy. This scan includes a thorough check over baby for wellbeing and peace of mind for you as well as a look around baby to show you how they’re developing. Ideally suited to parents that are worried about baby and pregnancy developing as normal whilst not having any clinical symptoms and clinical reason to worry to give you reassurance that everything is developing normally.
21-31 weeks
3D/4D Bonding Scan
An amazing experience to meet your baby in 3D/4D on our extra large screen in amazing colour and clarity. During your scan we’ll spend time to show you around baby in detail, helping you to see your baby in glorious 3D, 4D and even full HD. Our fully qualified and HCPC registered sonographers will explain exactly what you’re seeing on screen, helping you to fully understand what you’re seeing. If your baby is in the wrong position, we’ll give you time to move around to get baby into a better position, with a complimentary rescan available if they’re not behaving on the day.
31 weeks+
Presentation Scan
We know that the last few months of pregnancy can drag with no planned NHS scans and baby getting heavier by the day. Our presentation scan is suitable from 31 weeks onwards and is specifically for checking baby’s position (presentation). During your scan, we’ll check baby is continuing to develop as normal, as well as checking their position and measuring their current weight so that we can predict their weight if they’re born at full term. If baby is in a good position on the day, we’ll still even take a look at baby in 3D/4D (we wouldn’t want to miss the opportunity).
Simple pricing
At Your Baby Scan, we don’t believe in complex pricing; you won’t find a takeaway menu of different pricing options. Our pricing is meant to be clear, simple and transparent, that’s why you won’t find any Ryanair-style pricing. The price advertised is the price you pay, with multiple extras included as standard. Simply choose the scan with it’s included add-ons that suits you best. We do offer a range of items that you can add-on, on the day, but none of these are needed for you to have a complete experience with us during your visit.
Blood testing services
At Your Baby Scan, we pride ourselves on having not only fully qualified sonographers but also a dedicated team of experienced phlebotomists, allowing us to provide comprehensive blood draw services for over 35 different tests beyond pregnancy. By partnering with reputable labs, some of which are trusted by the NHS, we ensure that you receive exceptional quality and fantastic value for money, making your health and wellbeing our top priority.
Pregnancy & Fertility
Our pregnancy and fertility blood tests are tailored to bring you the clarity and reassurance you deserve. Our comprehensive services include hormone profiling, ovulation monitoring, and fertility assessments, all carried out by our experienced phlebotomists in a compassionate setting. By delivering precise results from reputable labs, we enable you to make empowered health choices, boosting your confidence during this pivotal time in your life.
Blood Screening
Blood screening testing is a vital tool for assessing your overall health and detecting potential medical conditions before they become serious. By analysing a sample of your blood, we can screen for a range of health issues, including diabetes, cancer markers, and thyroid disorders. These tests help identify risk factors and provide crucial insights into your body’s functioning, empowering you to take proactive steps toward a healthier future.
Women’s Health
Understanding your health is paramount, especially for women navigating different routine wellness checks and the transformative journey through menopause. Well woman blood tests provide essential insights into hormonal balance and overall well-being, while menopause blood tests specifically assess hormone levels, helping to manage symptoms and enhance quality of life.
Men’s Health
Men’s health blood tests are crucial for gaining insights into vital aspects of well-being and identifying potential issues early. From assessing testosterone levels and checking for prostate-specific antigens to monitoring cholesterol and blood sugar levels, these tests offer a comprehensive view of your health profile. At Your Baby Scan, our skilled phlebotomists understand the importance of these assessments in empowering men to take charge of their health.
What do we do?
We are a private pregnancy ultrasound scan centre. We offer a range of reassurance scans from as early as 5 weeks, Gender confirmation from 16 weeks and 3D/4D from 21 weeks, with HD scanning as standard for all of our scans.
The primary purposes of all scans that we offer is to check your baby’s wellbeing, whether this is an Early Reassurance Scan, Gender Determination, Bonding or Presentation. Our wellbeing checks are performed by fully qualified HCPC registered sonographers to ensure that you are given good clinical advice. If we discover anything that needs to be followed up by your NHS Clinical Care team, then our team of professionals will provide you with a full report documenting our findings during your scan and referral to the appropriate pathway.
We pride ourselves on offering a caring and conscientious, comfortable and relaxing experience. You will not be rushed at any stage of your visit, before your scan, during your scan or afterwards. We ensure that you get the full scan time that is included with your package, so that’s plenty of time for you to bond with your little one, and take in their amazing development and growth. After your scan, we ensure you have lots of time and privacy to view your images, and select your prints to take home with you, whilst providing you with immediate online access to all of your pictures anywhere and anytime via our photo locker (included in most scans), making sharing your special experience with friends and family easy.
We lead. We dare to be different. Better.
When we opened in 2015, we offered a number of firsts and a unique approach to the entire experience, some in our region, some in the UK, some worldwide!
- We offered lots as standard, dispensing with the pressured selling culture
- Whilst many scan centres were offering CD-ROMs and USBs with images captured during your scan at a premium, which easily get lost, we offered a modern and innovative way to access your images online through our very own online photo locker – the first to offer such as service.
- We offered tea and coffee on arrival, and complimentary soft drinks and sweets when baby needed it instead of sending you to the shop in the rain.
- We provide umbrellas if you do need to take a walk so that you don’t get wet.
- We record the footage of every single scan, so that if you decide you want the video afterwards, even weeks later, then you can still get a copy – no need to pay for another scan.
- Our prints are an extra large 6″ x 8″ (A5) full glossy photo quality
Since then, we’ve continued to innovate, with simple online bookings and Digital Video Downloads as an option (as your iPad doesn’t have a USB port or a DVD drive), and in the not too distant future, we’ll be able to live stream your scan, securely, anywhere in the world to your friends and family or even your clinician in real-time, so they can view your scan or find out your baby’s gender with you, no matter what timezone they live in.
Didn’t feel rushed or pressured, just relaxed in a lovely atmosphere.
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Is Ultrasound Harmful?
There is currently no evidence to suggest that ultrasound (including 4D Bonding Scans) are harmful, however, it is important that you have all of the facts about the risks associated with the procedure before coming to your decision on the matter. In general, it’s recommended for good measure to keep your scan times to a minimum, and that this is particularly during the early stages of pregnancy, for this reason, we will end scans during the very early stages of pregnancy once we have been able to provide you with the reassurance that you seek.
The following links will help:
Public Health England guidance
NHS Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme
Care Quality Commission (CQC) – Choosing a baby scanning service
British Medical Ultrasound Society (BMUS)
EFSUMB – European Federation of Societies for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology
Whether you choose to have a scan with us or not, it is essential that you keep your NHS Ultrasound appointments.