We recommend having your early scan at 7 weeks because youll be able to see your baby on the screen. Well also be able to perform more health checks at this stage because we can check the heart. The earliest scan thats going to look something like a baby would be at around 9 weeks.

Why would you have an early scan?

An early scan may show whether or not you have a viable ongoing pregnancy. The scan will let you know if there is a heartbeat, which would be visualised not heard at this stage and beats per minute taken using a M-mode which is a safe way to measure your babys heart rate in early pregnancy.