Today is baby loss awareness day, designed to highlight the issues around losing a baby during pregnancy or just after birth. Whilst the majority of pregnancies are carried successfully and happily to term, some women lose their babies for a multitude of reasons. The awareness day is designed to help people learn about the causes of baby loss and raise funds for the charities who support people grieving their loss and researching ways to prevent future losses.
Dr Beattie has worked with many women over the years who have suffered a loss or who are trying to conceive, or carry a further pregnancy following the loss of a baby. He has developed services at Innermost Secrets to offer the best chance to women, couples and families of a good outcome through offering various scans and screening tests which might help diagnose or detect any problems early, or simply offer reassurance during a stressful pregnancy. Such services are repeated wellbeing scans during higher risk pregnancies, the early scan package for women who have suffered previous miscarriages, fetal fibronectin testing for women at risk of pre-term labour (or those wanting reassurance about their chances of going into labour within the next fortnight), and the new service of neonatal oxygen level screening to detect cardiac issues in newborns (as well as the cardiac scans which can be offered whilst the baby is still in the womb).
Innermost Secrets staff always work hard to support women in pregnancy and help them get to the day when they hold their healthy baby.