Scan at 10am.. I want to take DC out of school.

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Basically that.. would I be unreasonable to take them out for a couple of hours, then straight to school from the hospital.

DC are 4 and 5.
I want to take them with me for the scan.. it's the sexing scan and I'd love for them to be there.

It is 10am so they'd be back at school by 11:30 at the latest.

This will be our last baby and can't afford to have a 4D one during a half term.

Ridiculous.

My mum is a receptionist in the ultrasound department. It's a regular occurrence that she gets left looking after the children of parents who have brought their kids along to find out the sex while the parents are taken into the bereavement room. Not a fun task.

It's a medical scan isn't it? In the hospital not a sexing scan.

We wouldn't allow them in the room in our hospital.

*childcare emergency I should have said

There's no way I would do this. Your children should be at school. Even if they weren't at school, I'd get a baby-sitter for them and not take them to the scan.

Please don't do this. As someone who received devastating news at a scan and had to have a urgent meetings with a succession of doctors immediately afterwards, there is no way I could have dealt with all the information I needed to take in and children. I also echo what other posters have said, and feel it isn't an appropriate setting for children and quite inconsiderate to the other patients and the staff.

We had a wonderful moment (and filmed it) when we brought dd3 home and put her In the c seat on the doorstep and then let dd1 and ds2 open the door - was awesome to see their reactions!

Oh absolutely not the 20 week one. Even if ultimately there is nothing wrong, there can still be things to be investigated and discussed. With the most tactful of discussions (and that really is not the practitioners' priority) it could be traumatic for a child to be sense there is a problem.

Of course the likelihood is that everything's fine but really what if it's not ?

I assume this is your NHS scan, please don't take your kids!

The waiting rooms are usually really crowded, if you can avoid taking extra people then you should.

There is usually a rule about 2 people maximum in the scan anyway.

Book a private scan (you can get just a sex scan for £39!!!)

Also ITS NOT YOUR SEXING SCAN ITS YOUR ANOMALY SCAN

What? No of course you shouldn't!

I took mine 10 years ago. They waited outside and after the anomaly part I was asked did I want to know the sex, my dd s came in and dd ages 5 announced "it's got a widgey".

Dippingmytoesin typo for 5 days maybe?

Nope she also said she's 12 weeks pregnant on the same date..

I wouldn't. The 20 week scan isn't for the purpose of finding the sex. It's to detect any issues.
I'm sure they'll be thrilled with a picture.

sorry but they won't even remember.

I took my neighbour along, we went in, found out baby was ok, then brought other DD in. If you have someone else to go with then yes, if alone or with DP/DH then no as other posters have said what if something is amiss and then you and/or partner are very upset.

Aside from the risk of bad news it's also very time consuming and likely to be boring for small children, while the tech really needs to concentrate so nothing is missed. Definitely not suitable for children.

Please don't take them op. I don't mean to scare you but we took dd to our anomaly scan and received bad news. She still doesn't fully understand what unfolded that day.

I'm not saying this to freak to out but do err on the side of caution, they will love seeing the scan pics of their sibling later I'm sure and sharing the brother/sister news will be no less special at that point

Nope she also said she's 12 weeks pregnant on the same date

Maybe she is massively planning ahead. I sort of got the impression that the scan was today.

Fucking hell this has to be a joke surely?

Sexing scan?

It’s a 20 week week anomaly scan to check that your baby is healthy.

It is a terrible idea, sorry.

We didn't even tell DS1 I was pregnant until after the 20 week scan in case it showed there was something wrong! Yes, obviously, YABU.

Yeah I think she might be massively planning ahead! I thought it may have been tomorrow.

Either way terrible idea

Surely when they say you can take children, they mean babies/toddlers dont they so you dont have to find childcare? Not "take your children out of school to attend an anomoly scan party".