Will my toddler be allowed in my scan?

[laurenann]

Hello,
My 12 week scan will be coming up soon and both my mum and mil would like to come with me.. However I already have a two year old, so I am wondering if he will be allowed to come in too? Otherwise one of them will have to stay behind to watch my son- I know there is a two person limit but not sure if toddlers were included in that!
Thank you :)

My hospital would allow a child in, there must be single parents with no childcare that would have no option so I think they have to really! Phone and check though maybe.

A lot of hospitals have a you plus one only rule and are very strict about it. Also they are often very strictly no children, and with good reason.

Im sure your scan will be absolutely fine, the vast vast majority are. However, as someone who has had bad news at a scan, please don't take your toddler, it's really not the place.

On my 12 week scan appointment letter it said no children allowed, so I would check before you go.

I remember taking my 10 month old baby into my 12 week scan, as I had nobody to mind her. But I didn’t have a mum or mil there.
The staff just laughed at my getting pregnant again at 7 months and asked if I had worked out what was causing it yet! If your sonographer won’t have everyone at once, maybe the grans could take turns to take the toddler outside while the other one sees the scan?

My trust have notices up everywhere saying strictly only one person to accompany you and no children allowed in scan room.
Also notes saying that the staff won't be responsible for your children whilst you have your scan. Apparently people try that on more than you'd think!

I had an xray in an outpatients that shares a corridor with a sonographer(sp) last year and a family of 8 piled into one room for a scan, it was very Laurel and Hardy :p

Me and DH has to take our 12 month old to my 12 week scan with us as we had no one to watch her and no one knew we were pregnant again. They wouldn't let us bring her in even though she was asleep in her buggy they made DH wait outside with her.

I had my 12 week scan a few weeks ago and my letter said only one person accompanying me and strictly no children.

Have you had your letter yet? If not then maybe ring and double check before making plans.

Is your partner also going with you?

So you'll be wanting another 3 people in there plus a toddler? It's years since I had a scan but it was strictly plus one and no kids.

The letter from the hospital explicitly said that children would not be allowed in the scan room, so while DH and DD came along on the day we were fully prepared for them to stay in the waiting room while I went in on my own. However, the (lovely) sonographer insisted they both come in with me, she was very relaxed about it.

Please don't take loads of extra people to your scan. It's a medical appointment, not a day out. If that's what you want, have a private scan.

Also I found out at one of my first scan that the foetus had died. It wasn't much of a party atmosphere

Also, scan dept always run behind time in my experience, so the idea from a previous poster that mum and mil take turns, effectively the scan being done twice plus time to swap over is unlikely to go down well.

Our scan room was so tiny there was no room for the sonographer and another adult as well as my husband. Tbh I think they would be less concerned about the toddler and ,ore concerned about both grans being in there.

My hospital allows 2 people to accompany someone for a scan. My partner will not be coming as he will be working- he is a contractor so is paid per day rather than hours with no holiday pay.
My letter didn't say anything about children, not that I noticed anyway- I will ring the hospital beforehand, thank you :)

My hospital makes it very clear that children really are not allowed unless there is absolutely no other option.

I don't think it would be appropriate. Will your partner be with you?

I hope they are both there to support you rather than as a fun day out

Just to add my toddler wouldn't understand what is going on whatsoever, and if I were to receive bad news I would be grateful to have both my mum and mil with me.
However I did have an emergency early scan two weeks ago and saw a very healthy heartbeat so I am hoping that is a good sign :)

It’s not really about distressing your toddler in the case of bad news - it’s about you not being able to concentrate properly on a healthcare appointment because your attention is (naturally) on your toddler

My DH could barely fit in the scan room, can’t imagine two people and a toddler! Definitely check first.

The size of the room isn't concerning me as this is my second at this hospital and the rooms are quite spacious, and the hospital does allow two people in.
Thank you for the replies- I will ring the hospital :) (wasn't sure if you could ring just for questions or if it was just for cancellations/rebooking appointments)

I would personally ask DM and MIL to flip a coin, on the understanding that whoever didn't come this time and therefore cared for your DC would come to your 20 week scan and vice versa.

They only let one person in at my local hospital and no children. The sonographer has to be able to concentrate on what they are doing which must be really hard if they have too many people or children in a small room. Could you mum and mil wait outside with your dc?

Either DM or MIL looks after your toddler, the other comes with you.

Our trust allows 2 people to accompany but they’ve recently started enforcing a no children rule. There was a very clear print out including in my bounty pack making it known.