Abdominal or vaginal ultrasound
Women often worry about how their ultrasound scan will be performed and whether to arrive for their appointment with a full or empty bladder. Early pregnancy or general gynecology scans can be performed either trans-abdominally (tummy) or trans-vaginally (internal)....
NIPT Statistics
The Advertising Standards Agency recently published an enforcement notice regarding adverts for NIPT. You can read about this here. It is very important to be aware of the positive predictive value of NIPT (PPV). This is the probability that a high chance result is...
Cervical screening
Cervical screening (smear test) is a free screening test that is free and available on the NHS as part of the National cervical screening programme. Women are automatically invited by letter, between the ages of 25 – 64 and if registered as a female with a GP surgery....
Breastfeeding
Breastfeeding your baby has numerous benefits for both of you. For you, it reduces your lifetime risk of getting one of the most common cancers; breast cancer. It also reduces the risk of ovarian cancer and osteoporosis. For your baby it helps to protect him or her...
Retroverted Uterus
A retroverted uterus is something often written on scan reports. It means that the womb tilts backwards towards the rectum or spine. This is a natural anatomical variation of position which happens in about one quarter of women. The most common position for a womb to...
Men and Pregnancy Loss
The loss of a baby is usually accompanied by feelings of sadness, disappointment, doubt, confusion and even anger. It not only means the end of a relationship between the developing baby and its parents, but the dreams, hopes and wishes that are a huge part of the...
Physical activity in pregnancy
Staying active in pregnancy has many benefits. It can help improve your pregnancy symptoms and sometimes help prevent medical complications which could affect your baby or you during and after pregnancy. These include diabetes and high blood pressure, two of the...
The Placenta
The placenta is an organ attached to the lining of your womb during pregnancy. It keeps your unborn baby’s blood supply separate from your own blood supply, as well as providing a link between the two. The link allows the placenta to carry out functions that...