Gender Scans St Helens

Although there are always some factors that will affect whether we’re able to successfully carry out your scan, if you follow these few simple steps, your results will be greatly improved:

• Relax – your little one can feel your tension and won’t want to move around!
• Drink enough water – if you’ve booked your scan for 20 weeks or under, it’s better to have a full bladder.
• Keep active – if you’ll be driving for a while, make sure you set time aside to walk around before your scan to get your baby moving a little.
• Try having a fizzy drink and/or a sweet snack – 20 minutes before your appointment with us, try to drink something fizzy or eat something sweet, like a bar of chocolate, again to help get your baby moving.

If you have any further questions about your scan, whether it’s how you need to prepare prior to or what happens during the process, please do not hesitate to get in touch with us.

It is important to state from the off that unfortunately, there is always a chance an early gender scan at 13 weeks could be wrong. After all, this is the very first week in pregnancy that your baby’s genitals are viewable on ultrasound and whilst the baby is still so small, there is every chance it could be wrongly determined.

However, for those parents who are desperate for an early sneak peed of your baby, there is some good news! Early gender scans at 13 weeks (thanks to modern technology) have been known to be up to 99% accurate – and although no scanning facility can promise 100% accuracy on the gender of your baby at 13 weeks, we can certainly come pretty close!

Please note

Our gender scans are 99.99% accurate, this is based on a study where we scanned 100 ladies between 12 and 13 weeks, 60 of which returned with gender confirmation at 14 weeks and were all 99.9% correct. Gender confirmation is determined on a number of factors including BMI, previous scar tissue or position of your baby during the scan. Although this is unlikely, it can occur.

At Hello Baby, our scans don’t check for any foetal abnormalities and the scans we offer are completely non-medical and non-diagnostic, designed solely for keepsake purposes only.

We will not perform any medical checks during your scan, so you must attend your routine NHS appointments and scans to keep an eye on the health of your little one.