Second trimester scans
The anomaly scan is a detailed ultrasound scan offered by the NHS, used for determining physical abnormalities of the fetus from 19 weeks to 22 weeks . The optimum time for an anomaly scan begins at the 20th week of pregnancy. With the help of the anomaly scan, the...
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...