Wellbeing & Reassurance Baby Scan in Gosforth, Newcastle

The wellbeing scan at Numi Scan Gosforth is a private 2D ultrasound available from 15 to 40 weeks. It's the appointment most Newcastle parents come back for between their NHS scans: sometimes because the wait between 20 weeks and the next midwife check feels too long, sometimes because movements have felt different, sometimes because they just want a quick look and a real conversation with a sonographer.

What your sonographer covers in the room:

• Baby's movement and tone: how active baby is, breathing patterns where visible
• Lie and presentation: head down, breech, transverse, oblique
• Placenta location: anterior, posterior, low-lying
• Amniotic fluid levels: measured against gestation
• Audible heartbeat trace through the speakers

You'll see everything live across two 46-inch LED TVs and a projector wall, in a non-clinical scan room with sofa seating for up to 9 guests. The appointment runs 15 minutes door to door. If you're earlier than 15 weeks and want reassurance, our Early Pregnancy Viability Scan covers 6 to 9+6 weeks and the Early Pregnancy Reassurance Scan covers 10 to 14 weeks. If you're closer to birth and need head-down position confirmed, the growth and presentation scan is the more thorough late-pregnancy option.

Book your wellbeing scan

The NHS does excellent work, but it's a system built around medical need, not reassurance. Once you're past the 20-week anomaly scan, NHS care relies on midwife appointments and your own monitoring of baby's movements. There is no routine NHS scan between 20 weeks and birth for healthy pregnancies. So if reassurance is what you actually want, you have to look elsewhere.

Booking privately in Gosforth gives you:

• No GP referral needed, book direct online. Our self-referral guide walks through how it works.
• Quick availability, usually within a few days, sometimes the same day.
• Five-point wellbeing check: movement, lie, placenta, amniotic fluid and heartbeat, all in one 15-minute appointment.
• Up to 9 guests welcome, two 46-inch LED TVs and a projector wall, sofa seating, off-street parking on Bakers Yard at £1 for three hours.
• Written wellbeing report handed to you on the day, plus 4 A6 prints and all images digitally for keepsakes.

This sits alongside NHS care, not in place of it; keep every NHS scan and midwife appointment as scheduled. For a fuller view, our NHS vs private ultrasound comparison covers what each route is set up to deliver, and the UK private ultrasound cost guide shows where £65 sits across the country. Numi Scan Gosforth has been running here on Bakers Yard for two years, and is part of the award-winning Numi Scan group: Best Ultrasound Clinic at the North East Prestige Awards 2025/2026.