Where Can I Get An Early Pregnancy Ultrasound Scan?

In the United Kingdom, an ultrasound scan can easily be got during the early stages of pregnancy. It is a routine examination. It is usually performed when a woman attends an antenatal clinic for the first time during her pregnancy. There is usually a follow-up ultrasound scan when the woman is in the 18th to the 22nd week of her pregnancy. In other words, a lady must get two ultrasound scans done. The first is in the very beginning of the usual nine-month period of pregnancy and the second one is when she is in about the fifth or sixth month (or the second trimester) of her pregnancy.

In the first ten weeks of the pregnancy, the scan is done by inserting a small probe into the vagina. Television monitors are sharp enough to catch even the smallest embryos, which could be a few millimeters in length. Subsequent scans are done on the surface of the abdomen, by spreading ultrasound gel on the skin and passing the scanner over the uterus until the television monitor is able to find the foetus and the placenta.

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