I was doing them every two weeks.

It's an industry that's thriving.

Having the reassurance from private scans has it?

She got me through.

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.

So wrong way.

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

Go inside.

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.

Wait minutes.

Can Onda ask whether there needs to be changed?

Regulations needed?

No.

We're seeing a huge expansion of these clinics.

E on our high streets.

One business is booming.

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.

Reassurance comes hope.

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

Hey, how you doing?

Good, she says.

It made her especially anxious when she became pregnant.

How you've been feeling?

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.

Then the cycle then starts again.

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

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

But I found the relief.

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.

Fetus absent Andi normal life pregnancy.

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.

The bleeding continued.

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.

It waas on a topic pregnancy.

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.

It was absolutely immoral.

It was disgusting.

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

That baby couldn't live.

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.

Um, I couldn't believe my eyes.

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

I had to do that over the telephone on.

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.

The company apologized.

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.

Any ideas at all?

I've asked her outside.

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 didn't know what to do.

I feel terrible that saying nothing.

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.

Who will be missed?

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

Wait minutes can, and it can't be done effectively.

When you've already done 30 you would never do a medical scan in the NHS.

With all those distractions going on, it's really important this photographer is able to concentrate on, not have somebody trying to sell the customer a teddy bear.

Pregnancy can be a really anxious time for many women.

What's wrong if they need that extra reassurance?

There's nothing wrong with extra reassurance, but what I'm finding is there wanting it.

Earlier and earlier.

You know, they offer scans from six weeks where it's a bit hit and miss.

If you can actually see anything that you can relate Thio.

So then it's back for another scan and then maybe another and then agenda scan.

The company says it conducts more than 100,000 scans a year in human error can occur, It said.

15 minute appointments are the same length used by some NHS trusts and artful anomaly scans Way wanted to see what people made of their service.

Many positive reviews are left online.

What an incredible, stunning place.

But we found the owner of multiple branches using their own Facebook account to praise studios.

Things is the standard for ultrasound clinics to aspire to.

Five stars.

Thank you so much for your amazing review Mark.

We've also discovered one of the company's directors posting review, saying, Really impressed how the clinic is keeping everyone safe during the coronavirus outbreak, the same images used on his Facebook profile.

Uh huh way asked window to the womb why managers hadn't disclosed their connection to the company.

It said it recognized that a handful of these reviews do not link with appointments plan to remove them immediately.

We showed our evidence to an expert an ultrasound telling somebody to leave without telling them.

Something wrong is it's appalling, really.

Jacqueline Torrington has, over 20 years experience scanning.

It was my fallopian change had ruptured and my stomach had felt with blood.

I was art from Death Lady with the A topic that is horrifying.

I mean, that is it's so dangerous.

Nothing about this report actually adds up.

Fetus absent Andi Normal life pregnancy It was completely contradictory.

It's a very striking catalog of incredibly poor.

Practice ranges from incredibly dangerous to anxiety inducing, and all of it is role Theo.

Care Quality Commission is responsible for regulating the services companies provide, but we found branches that haven't been inspected since opening four years ago on Learned it doesn't review samples of scans as part of inspections.

In a statement, it says there is good quality care in the industry as a whole, but it has a growing concern.

The government says the majority of stenographers are qualified nurses already geographers, but experts in interpreting imagery say regulation of stenographers is needed.

You're doing the most difficult scans at the trickiest time for for the most anxious group of people on a workforce that you don't necessarily know the the level of skills, the level of expertise on what training they've actually had.

Many staff at these companies, working as radiography is on.

Midwives will be regulated.

So why does any of this matter?

It matters no, because of the massive increase in these companies.

If you said to most members of the public, do you realize that some of the people scanning you actually don't have an easy way off demonstrating that expertise?

I think the moms would be surprised.

Problems in pregnancy are rare, but women who have experienced them saying it's Faisal private scans don't lead to false reassurance.

It has put in effect on mine and my husband's relationship because it's something that e don't know.

Could it happen again?

What had happened again on Could I trust anybody's judgment that it's not gonna, you know, it was just so close on?

That's one of them things that thank God I come with the other side, but hi wrong.

Could this go for somebody else?