Hundreds Of Mothers Told To Abort Healthy Babies

It has been reported this week that hundreds of would be mothers are incorrectly being diagnosed as losing their babies due to poor equipment and inexperienced staff. Approximately 400 women are wrongly diagnosed each year, many of which take the early option of terminating the pregnancy even though the baby may actually be healthy and developing as per normal.

Miscarriages are confirmed by conducting an ultrasound, analysing the foetus and sac that the baby develops in. Early pregnancy scans conducted by the NHS are difficult to read and it is claimed that doctors reading them are untrained and unsure of what the scans depict.

Professor Tom Bourne, of Imperial College London, said: ‘For most women, sadly there is nothing we can do to prevent a miscarriage.
‘But we do need to make sure we don’t make things worse by intervening unnecessarily in ongoing pregnancies. We hope our work means that the guidelines to determine miscarriage are made as watertight as we would expect for determining death at any other stage of life.’

If for example the foetus is small and a heartbeat cannot yet be detected, the woman should have a second scan a week (7-10 days later). Instead, women are being advised that they are miscarrying and are driven towards a termination.

Experts now warn that the current guidelines to determine a healthy baby from a miscarriage are innapropriate, and need to be changed to ensure a much greater level of accuracy in readings. Experts now suggest that having a private baby ultrasound scan is highly beneficial to expectant mothers, purely on the basis of the extra time, care and due diligence from trained sonographers. Within hospitals doctors do not have the same level of training and unfortunately are working with old equipment.

Private clinics such as My Ultra Baby carry the latest equipment and have specifically trained sonographers that know exactly how to read ultrasounds at varying stages within a pregnancy.

This week the Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists announced that a formal review of ultrasound guidelines is underway and will take the latest news and findings into consideration.

By: newsstar

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