The Fetal Welfare Scan, commonly referred to as the Well Being Scan is a medical check that is usually carried out on mothers to be the 14th week of pregnancy. The London Ultrasound Central in London has vast experience in overseeing this important examination. The Welfare Scan entails determining the size of the baby’s head, waist and femur (leg bone). The excellent, highly trained staff at The London Ultrasound Centre will then incorporate detailed charts to see how they collate with measurements that had been taken on a prior occasion. This will afford the medical staff, the midwife and obstetrician, an opportunity to monitor the rate at which the unborn child in the womb may be progressing during pregnancy.

It is standard procedure during a Fetal Welfare Scan for the sonographer or consultant to ascertain the diameter and circumference of the child’s head, along with determining the size of the baby’s waist. The London Ultrasound Centre’s brilliant medical team will also, in the course of varying out The Well Being Scan, check the mother’s placenta, as well as measure how much fluid may be found round the child’s head. It will also monitor how the baby is moving in the womb, along with monitoring the level of blood flowing in the umbilical artery.

These are a number of the checks carried out by The London Ultrasound Centre.