12 wk scan pics (UK)

[lipsty]

Not really an urgent question, as I guess I'll find out at my scan, but do they give you printouts or a disc? Do you have to ask for pictures or will they give them to you automatically? Do you have to pay if you want more than one or two?

TIA! xx

 

[MumNo2]

my hospital is just pics and u donate a £1 and u would have 2 ask for how many u would like. i dont think they do discs but i know u get a disc if u go private...hope this helps xx

 

[lipsty]

my hospital is just pics and u donate a £1 and u would have 2 ask for how many u would like. i dont think they do discs but i know u get a disc if u go private...hope this helps xx

Thanks! I'm not going private, just good old NHS I guess that people must take pictures of their printouts to put online then. xx

 

[Lara310809]

It's different with every hospital. I was living in Surrey when we went for my 12 week scan with my daughter. There they make you pay £3 for a token. Each token gives you one scan photo, and you are only allowed a maximum of three photos, no matter how much you're willing to pay for more tokens.

I bought the full allocation of three tokens (£9), expecting to be given three pics, but I went away with six; the lady told me not to tell anyone though; I think she printed too many by accident

The 21 week scan was the same; I bought the three tokens, but the lady accidentally gave me the entire file full of all the photos they took from the scan, so I had about 30 pics; but mostly of her skull and heart measurements - not really something you would show to people, lol.

The photos we got for our 12 and 21 week scans were all photos, not discs. I have a scanner and I scanned them into my computer. Most people do just take a photo of the picture and upload it to the internet, but if you know someone with a scanner, it's a much clearer picture. For our 4D scan, which we went private for, we got a DVD of video, which we had to make snapshots of, because there were no actual still photos.

 

[girlygirl:)]

It should say on your appointment letter what the procedure with the scan pics in the hospital is. Ours were £3, and we were only allowed 1, we had to ask our ultrasound technician for one, but she wasn't the most pleasant of women anyway! xx

 

[readytta]

I had an nhs scan at 7w4d and they gave us 2 photos. Can't wait till the next one x

 

[AimeeM]

Here you have to pay £5 per picture! They don't do disks either but we got a disk and loads of pictures from a private scan at Babybond.

 

[Vesta]

My local hospital charge £4 per picture.

 

[michyk84]

it was £3 a pic & you could have as many pics as you wanted with my daughter this time i have no idea as its a different hospital in a different area i cant even check on letter because this hospital apparently dont send letters out to those mums who are not first time mums

 

[babyhearts]

Not had a scan this time round but with my son it said "bring a donation because the paper is expensive" I took about £20 because I had no clue only to find most people were just giving like 20P and expecting loads of photos! I think I was given about 4/5 my second scan I got 2 and my 3rd scan was emergency at 35 weeks the man who did it slipped one into my pocket because everything was such a rush

 

[Katie.2011]

I went at 9 weeks and had to pay before i went into the room, £5 each or 3 for £10 lol sounds like an offer tescos do haha. anyway coz of only being 9 weeks we didnt bother, the rather miserable lady said she still could of done a pic but i thought why not wait 4 weeks til im 13 weeks and get a better pic for that money. xx

 

[lesbianlove]

I went at 9 weeks and had to pay before i went into the room, £5 each or 3 for £10 lol sounds like an offer tescos do haha. anyway coz of only being 9 weeks we didnt bother, the rather miserable lady said she still could of done a pic but i thought why not wait 4 weeks til im 13 weeks and get a better pic for that money. xx

lol thats so funny, i think at mine i only remember doing a wee donation and you get however many pics the sonagrapher can be bothered giving you lol, i was actualy wondering if my partner could take a video with her fone of the scan and would they mind?

 

[PhoenixRising]

I guess I got lucky?
My friend told me to take pound coins to buy tokens, but there was no machine when I got there and then the sonographer just printed out 4 pics for us - no charge. One of them was just the shot of the back of the neck though as we asked for an NT scan.

 

[Elhaym]

My midwife said it was £4 for a picture and I have to take the proper change, 4 £1 coins! x

 

[katiekittykat]

I think ours is £2 per pic and we have to get tokens too.

 

[michyk84]

went today got given 2 pics & was just told it was a donation of £2-£3 per pic which we could sort after the scan was done

 

[Skippy54]

I'n my hospital you pop £1 into a token machine and that gives you 3 pictures xx

 

[Lara310809]

I agree, you need to take the change with you. I took loads of £1 coins with me, and it was a good thing too, because all the cafeterias and gift shops refused to give anyone change from the tills for the parking, so I guess they would have refused to give me change too.

 

[AngelBunny]

we had to pay £5 per picture, so we asked for 2 pics and the grouch gave us 2 copies of the same picture. we had to take loads of £ coins for the machine. i don't think you get the pics on disk unless you have a private scan xx

 

[Wantabean]

well im glad i live in Scotland. I had 17scans in total with Cam and got at least 2 pics per scan except the last scan (it was an hour before he was born so i didnt mind lo) i never paid for any of them lol xxx