Any Recommendations For a Private Scan in London?

[bluemama]

Does anyone out there know of a good (and affordable) place to get a private scan in London? I've heard you can get 3D/4D ones too which i'm intrigued about. Have seen 'early' 3D scan pics where the baby looked like a melted plastcine model but I'm told after 24 weeks they look more human...
Any recommendations gratefully accepted!

fetal medicine centre on harley st good for scans, but they're regular ones, not 3(or "4")D

try the Birth Company on Harley Street. scans

I used Baby Premier in Devonshire Place for my early scan last week and they were very good. They do various packages for 4D scans so could be worth a look. I know I will be going back for one of these later on!

All the private hospitals Portland etc. will offer ultrasound services but I have found them more expensive than the smaller private clinics like BP and the Birth Company.

Hi there, I am a student at Birkbeck College (Uni of London) studying an MSc Human Development, and part of my course requires me to take part in Infant Observations. While this sounds daunting (and maybe uninteresting for some...) it is not as clinical as you may think! It simply means that one hour a week, for about 18 months (probably no more), a warm and open mother will allow me into her home to 'observe' her (or her husbands/other family members) interaction with the new born. I will literally be a fly on the wall, I will not judge, speak or talk to the baby or the mother. I shall not be making notes (this is the clinical part I am afriad people will think), in fact you are not even suppose to notice me. The hour that you will allow me to visit will depend wholly upon the mother's wishes, though hopefully an hour when the baby isnt sleeping... As a mother with a new infant, I expect that some people will be thinking that this is the last thing they will want- an intruder/ and outsider. This is the last thing I would want to feel like too. I would like the mothers to know that this is completely confidential. Names will be changed etc. And if teh mother is interested- at the end of my course (June 2008) I have to submit a paper based on my observations, the motehrs are entirely entitled to read them too. As this is a requirement for my course, I have taken the necessary police/Crimincal Records Bureau Checks, and come from a background in child (and adult) related volunteer work as my CV will testify. If there are any expecting mothers who may be interested to hear more about this, but not necessarily make a commitment to allowing me their time, please contact me on [email protected]. My name is Neda, and I would also like to note that I think it would be in both of our interests if I could meet the mother during the end of her pregnancy to see if we are both comfortable with each other and ask any other questions beforehand. This will take the pressure off both of us!

I am looking for mothers who are expecting to give birth in November or December, or even January, preferably in Central London. I am based in Kensington.

Thank you so much and I really apppreciate your taking the time to read this!

NZ, Did you mean to start a new topic for this?

I wanted to start a fresh topic and not cut into a conversation initially. But i think I became confused.. sorry about that..

I had a 4D scan with Cocoon4D at the London Ultrasound Centre.

www.cocoon4d.com

The staff there were lovely and the images we took home were beautiful.

They even edit your DVD so you don't boar your friends to death!

maria

I went to Fetal Medicine Centre in Harley Street. Prof Nicolaides runs the clinic and it is open to all parents. He specialises in problem pregnancies and people often go to him after they have had the first scan. We had our 22 weeks scan and it reassured us that all was well. We had the scan before the NHS scan and it was a lot more detailed than the NHS scan. It cost us £200 pounds (more for twins). I would go straight to Fetal Medicine Centre and not bother with any other centres. Prof Nicolaides sees all patients to double-check their scans.

I've heard that 3D and 4D scans are not designed for diagnosis and so i would first go for the 'medical' scan.

There is a thread specifically about the Fetal Medicine Centre - full of good things about the centre.

If I'm not mistaken LOVEMYMUM the OP was asking about 3D scans and you are talking about medical sacns. Quite different.

IFAIK the Fetal Medicine Centre dioesn't do 3D/4D ultrasounds.

I think it's tru that 3d & 4D scans aren't being used for medical reasons but I would add - yet.

Mr Maxwell at The London Ultrasound Centre is using 3D & 4D scans in his pregnancy diagnosis almost every day. He told us about how he can find a deformaties using the new technology.

Also I had a friend who went to the FMC and was only seen by a trainee sonographer. I'm sure this is not always the case but she had to wait 4 hours for that privelidge!

If it's not too late for you, I can highly recommend The Portland Hospital on Great Portland Street. I paid £160 for a combined scan, but they also offer all sort of 3D/4D options and everyone there is very friendly and welcoming (not like my local hospital!) Good luck.

I can also recommend the Fetal Medicine Centre in Harley Street. Prof Nicolaides is one of the top experts in the country.
Good luck!!! x

Hi bluemama. If not too late, I can also recommend Cocoon at the London Ultrasound Centre (www.cocoon4d.com)- we went for an early 4d scan at 20 weeks (I just couldn't help myself ;-) ), and it was brilliant. Dr Maxwell was excellent and checked everything and discussed it in detail with us. Baby was shy (hmm, not with certain parts, it's a boy hehehe - but we did say we wanted to know!), and he spent ages with us so that we could (eventually!) get to see baby's face too.
Whichever place you decide on, I think it's always so wonderful to see baby anyway - I couldn't stop smiling all day even after my normal NHS scan the other day...

You'll find a directory of 4D scan providers and relevant information at www.babyscan.co.uk Good Luck x

Can I just say the url that the thread previously suggests gives a false image on its home page as to what you will see in a 4d scan.
This is a computer generated image
If anyone is around the portsmouth area try baby scan as I have heard fab things about it

they have a web site called www.babyscanco.com
thier prices are very reasonable and its a lovely homely friendly clinic

FMC can do 3d scans (they often give you a £D picture at the end of the normal scan) but they're (the FMC) primarily diagnostic not 'bonding' you can't specifically book them.

FMC ??? Who is that, sorry

oh ok got it yes that is highly recommended but you cannot book so unless you have a referal you cannot get a scan done there. whereas baby scan in cosham all you have to do is call and book no referral needed and you get lots of images to take away with you on the day(smile)

Has anyone had a 4d scan in Devon?

FMC is the Fetal Medicine Centre in Harley Street. They are fab.

Theres a new scanning clinic opening in Devon in July. It is called Babyface4d and it is near Cullompton just off the M5 junction 28.
Their website is Babyface4d.co.uk
It looks really good.....too late for me though (sad)

I went to the Cocoon 4D baby scan clinic too in London, it was fantastic and even got a dvd of it all, fantastic!!!

Their website is www.cocoon4d3dbabyscans.co.uk/

Would recommend to anyone!

I went to the Cocoon 4D baby scan clinic too in London, it was fantastic and even got a dvd of it all, fantastic!!!

Their website is www.cocoon4d3dbabyscans.co.uk/

Would recommend to anyone!

Hey all,
I would like to highly recommend Ultrasound Medic in Harley Street- the best and clearest 4D images you can possibly imagine!
Plus I was always given a DVD with all the real MOVING IMAGES- the footage of my son and lots of cool 4D pics. It made a great YouTube vid!!!

www.babyscanninglondon.com

Extremely friendly, warm and affordable!!!
Love it!!!!!

We went to Baby Scan Clinic on Harley Street using a Groupon voucher for a '4D' scan that cost £99, a supposed saving of £150. I have to say it was a disappointing experience.
We'd originally booked for 6.45pm but the clinic moved our appointment to 6pm, which meant my husband had to leave work early in Egham. He arrived on time, having run from the Tube, only for us to find no-one on reception to answer the door or take calls or pick up an ansaphone message or (resorted to in desperation) answer an email.
We waited for over ten minutes before other clients were leaving and we were able to gain access. The ultrasound operator was perfectly pleasant, but seemed non-plussed that we had been left waiting and shrugged her shoulders at the absence of a receptionist. We then had to wait for her to set up to start the session.
The technology was also disappointing. It was almost impossible to work out what we were looking at in the images. I appreciate that our baby wasn't positioned to facilitate good images - he was facing towards my spine - but I would have expected that we would have been able to see clearly the baby's shape and physiology. Apart from one image of the baby's face, turned in towards the womb wall, and a couple of others of a (dismembered and incomplete!) leg and foot, I wouldn't be able to tell what the images show if it weren't for the label added by the operator, such is the degree of shadowing and the way the images are cropped and angled.
The DVD was also disappointing, not only because the images were similarly hard to understand, but because most of the screen view is made up of the ultrasound scanner's monitor with the image of the baby just a small part of that.
The photo printer wasn't working so the operator undertook to send the photos to us the next day. These actually took several days to arrive and my name has been badly mispelt, which makes them even more disappointing. We never received an apology for having been kept waiting on the doorstep and received no response to the email I sent afterwards expressing our disappointment.
Cheap for a reason?!