Name: Private baby scan studios ‘a growing concern’ - BBC News
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Having the reassurance from private scans has it?

Many women say they help, but is there a risk of false reassurance?

That's what I Pacific Lee paid for the check for a topic, and they got it.

Investigate concerns about how scanning studios operate to embark on a scan off a woman who's been bleeding is appalling.

A company wants that group, which reviews scanned I knew something Was Wrong straight away.

Didn't know what to do here from a whistleblower who claims problems will be missed.

They want to be all singing or dancing medical checks pictures, and it can't be done in a fight.

Can Onda ask whether there needs to be changed?

We're seeing a huge expansion of these clinics.

For many women, pregnancy can be a really anxious time, and they're keen to check on their baby's health.

The NHS provides two scans unless there's a clinical need from or but more than 200 businesses now offer a solution.

Thought she'd struggled toe have Children because of previous ill health.

It made her especially anxious when she became pregnant.

Um yeah, not so you feel like you're dreaming a little bit.

I just couldn't believe it was like such a big gift.

And then I thought, What if this doesn't last?

She's now six months pregnant and has had finally private scans costing between 60 and £100 each.

I put all the pictures all over my world.

He's literally like the last thing I see at night and the first thing I see in the morning, he says being able to bring her boyfriend along to the private ones, unlike NHS cans, has made a real difference.

It's been the most relieving, relieving experience ever I like, So I would go in quite tense.

I would have the most sleepless night before, just with pure worry.

So when you then come out of that and you know everything's OK, your life on, I would say I feel like pretty relieved for maybe a good couple of days up to a week and then I.

Do you think the private scans reduce or increase your anxiety?

I get what you mean, is it reinforcing the anxiety?

Being able to just sleep at night and not worry, even just for one night was just worth it, just to know that everything was OK.

Today, scans are carried out by sonography is anyone can call themselves one.

It's not a regulated profession like being a midwife.

Companies offer a variety of services, including the chance to get souvenir images or video to find out the gender or check for abnormalities.

My Children could have been without a mother.

Carrie Ann fell anxious after recognizing pregnancy symptoms.

Having undergone a sterilizing procedure, she was worried about her increased risk of any topic pregnancy, where the fetus grows outside the womb.

And so but the scan at a studio run by window to the womb in Lisbon, it is contradicting himself.

Even though the fetus couldn't be seen during the scan, and despite her history, the studio recorded a normal pregnancy.

A day later, he began bleeding and went to the NHS.

So I explain to the hospital that I'd be in for a private topic scan that everything was fine.

It wasn't a topic, so they did re scan me and they didn't pick up their topic either.

So I was home believing that I was miscarrying.

Two weeks later, she was sent to a any my fallopian tubes had ruptured on my stomach had filled with blood.

I was art from death, so there was no miscarriage.

The company says it's unable to comment due to legal proceedings.

Revealing the baby's gender has become a big part of many pregnancies.

Party gifts is an industry worth tens of millions of pounds.

We've spoken to a woman who attended a scan with window to the womb and Salford to check her baby's well being and record its gender for a party.

We've learned the company identified a serious abnormality incompatible with life, where part or all of the fetus's head is missing, called Annan carefully.

But rather than refer her immediately, the hospital on provide a medical report.

The woman was told the baby's head couldn't be fully seen recommended to book an NHS anomaly scan.

They let this poor girl leave on Goto, a gender reveal party named the Baby Open Gifts Andi.

They even gave a little girl a teddy bear with a heartbeat of her little sister.

She only found out when she showed the scan images to a family friend who is an experienced sonography.

I saw the pictures in front of May, and the abnormality was so obvious and so grotesque.

In all honesty, I had to break the news that baby couldn't live.

They were hysterical, absolutely hysterical.

Window to the Womb has said all its staff are registered with the Health and Care Professions Council, but we've learned the snog refer who conducted the scan was not.

At the time, the mother wrote to the company saying, I feel betrayed, distraught and lost for words.

It says the stenographer left shortly afterwards, and the incident led to best practice being reinforced across its branches.

So available from 15 weeks plus, some companies say they're not medical and don't diagnose problems.

One of thes could meet Your Miracle advertises Reassurance scans, which it says visualized well being.

We've seen past these messages from the company's WhatsApp group, which show Sinaga, furs and management sharing on discussing customer scans, sometimes during appointments.

One photographer told the group he felt guilty after having to let a woman leave without telling her about a possible serious abnormality.

I knew something was wrong straight away.

I'm racked with guilt for not saying anything.

Despite being a non medical company, we've been told women are accepted for scans who were bleeding and in pain rather than being recommended to visit the NHS First, the company that it scans are largely recreational on under its registration.

It can't discuss any concerns unless they're relevant to the baby's heartbeat, it says.

It advises women bleeding and in pain to attend the NHS, but its service detecting a heartbeat is invaluable in reducing anxiety.

Other companies do advertise medical scans which diagnosed abnormalities.

Window to the womb is one of the biggest thes leaked internal documents so that three spina bifida cases were missed in a single week in May, the mistakes were clearly visible, according to the company's directors.

They describe the cases as a pattern of similar and serious errors, which confirmed that the stenographers are not thoroughly checking all elements of the baby's development.

This whistleblower has worked at a sonography and a number of branches alongside her job in the NHS.

There's so many women, it's like a conveyor belt.

There's been near misses already, She claims working conditions mean problems.

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