About Us
About Imagine Baby
Let us tell you about - Imagine Baby
This small private imaging clinic is run by a qualified Sonographer and a Scan Assistant who have many years combined experience in the NHS. We are so fortunate to offer this service from a small friendly location, with a professional buzz but a relaxed mood to help create an ideal surrounding to Imagine Baby.
Imagine Baby was created as a service, as we appreciate that an increasing number of expectant parents desire access to a scanning service that is complementary to the NHS diagnostic and screening ultrasound scans. Your Imagine Baby team understands that pregnancy is an amazing experience but can be an extremely worrying time for expectant parents. With this service we hope to help comfort and soothe your journey by optimising imagery of your little one, in a non-clinical environment - helping you to imagine baby and with our experience, enable you to relax and enjoy the scan of your choice.
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We use ultrasound equipment that is familiar to us, of high specification and regularly maintained – our ultimate aim is to deliver an imaging service that will help reassure you and allow you time to visualise your baby with high quality images. On occasion, image quality is not ideal as babies don't always behave, however, we will try our best to provide you with an enjoyable experience.
Your Sonographer has over 20 years scanning experience and
supporting qualifications:
PG Diploma Obstetrics/Gynae/General Medical Ultrasound
Registered with HCPC
We can offer flexible opening times to suit individual needs and requirements, please contact us to discuss.
We seek to always be developing our service, aiming to meet the needs of expectant parents by being accessible and responsive.
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Our Guidance
Imagine Baby scans must be in addition to your NHS antenatal care scans and must not be considered as an option if you are having pain, bleeding or have concerns with you or your baby’s wellbeing - please always contact your NHS provider with any concerns. We are there to comfort your pregnancy with additional imaging, however, your NHS care is the most important care pathway for you and your baby.
Imagine Baby does not provide detailed diagnostic or screening assessment of your baby. You must always have an Obstetric and Midwifery team looking after your pregnancy journey – your NHS will provide all your pregnancy scans to monitor your pregnancy. It is important to note that ultrasound assessment has limitations and not all anomalies or concerns with your pregnancy are detectable from scan. These limitations extend to predicting baby’s sex, 100% accuracy cannot be assured - you will be asked to confirm you accept these limitations before you consent to your scan with Imagine Baby.
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Imagine Baby offers ultrasound scans, in addition to your NHS diagnostic and screening scans with a peek at baby at times when you need a little reassurance in your pregnancy and allows for some relaxing bonding at a time that suits you, in your pregnancy journey. Although ultrasound assessment of your pregnancy is limited at today’s scan, as per description on the Imagine Baby website - if any potential concerns are identified today, this will be discussed with you and a report of the scan will be given for you to discuss with your midwife/antenatal team. The Sonographer may also ask to discuss findings directly with your healthcare provider.