We provide our services to many expectant families desiring to complete their ultrasound in a more family-centered, patient-focused environment. Prenatal Vision Ultrasound employs highly educated, trained and qualified diagnostic sonographers who perform your diagnostic ultrasound. Once the diagnostic ultrasound is complete, the reports of all findings are forwarded to our supervising physician and the patient’s physician, midwife, or clinic overseeing the pregnancy.

Prenatal Vision Ultrasound also offers 5D ultrasounds. An increasing amount of research is present on the usefulness of 3D scans and the diagnosis of fetal anomalies. Present evidence has already suggested that smaller defects such as spina bifida, cleft lips/palate, and polydactyl may be more clearly demonstrated. Other more subtle features such as low-set ears, facial dysmorphia or clubbing of feet can be better assessed. The ability to obtain a good 3D picture is nevertheless still very much dependent on operator skill, the amount of amniotic fluid around the fetus, fetal position and the degree of maternal obesity.

This scan will check the baby’s 4 chamber heart, brain, spine, bowel, kidneys, bladder, 3V cord, cord insertion and limbs to detect any abnormalities. Prenatal ultrasound cannot diagnose all malformations and problems of an unborn baby, so one should never interpret a normal scan report as a guarantee that the baby will be completely normal. Some abnormalities are very difficult to find or to be absolutely certain about.

Some conditions, like for example hydrocephalus, may not have been obvious at the time of the earlier scan. The position of the baby in the uterus has a great deal to do with how well one sees certain organs such as the heart, face and spine. Sometimes a repeat examination has to be scheduled the following day, in the hopes the baby has moved.