Pregnancy Scans & Prenatal Screening in HSR Layout

Scans are the part of pregnancy most mothers count down to, and also the part that stirs the most anxiety in the minutes before a report is read. Dr. Sanjana L runs a clear, well-timed screening schedule for expecting mothers in HSR Layout from Health Nest in Sector 2, so you know which scan falls due when and, just as importantly, what each one can and cannot tell you. The calendar opens with a dating scan between six and nine weeks, confirming the pregnancy is inside the uterus and fixing your due date. The NT scan follows between eleven and thirteen weeks plus six days, usually paired with the double marker blood test. The detailed anomaly or TIFFA scan sits between eighteen and twenty-two weeks.

From twenty-eight weeks onward, growth scans track how well the baby is putting on weight, with Doppler studies added where the placenta or blood flow warrants a closer look, generally up to around thirty-six weeks. Non-invasive prenatal testing, or NIPT, is a maternal blood test that screens for the common chromosomal conditions with greater accuracy than the double marker, and it is offered where first-trimester screening comes back borderline, where there is a relevant history, or simply where parents want it. Every one of these tests screens rather than diagnoses. A soft marker on an anomaly scan is a minor finding that nudges probability, not a verdict, and most babies who have one are entirely well.