baby scan rip off digusting if you ask me

Lemoncurd

Have never heard of charging for a gender scan but it does sound like a good way of raising funds! Forgot to ask the sex of this baby (I'm 36 weeks pg) so probably wouldn't have paid but might have done with the excitement of our first, don't think I would have begrudged it if that was standard policy.

Would be very surprised if they could get a bigger house on the basis of a scan, the scan could be wrong and anything could happen in the meantime.
We have a girl who is 5 and boy who is 3 and although we have 4 bedrooms we put them in the same room through choice, don't see anything wrong with that and think it's good for them to share. The new baby will be in our room for at least 6 months, maybe more. When it is old enough, if there is room we currently plan on putting all three in together what gender the baby is.

Krystaltips

daphne_descends wrote: »

Krystal do you know if Bounty pay the hospital a fee or do they (hospital) get a cut of orders taken?

Bounty strike me as an odd organisation that exists purely to separate parents and cash - whether it's getting you to buy Comfort because of your free sample, taking cute pics of your newborn, or distributing out-dated information on infant weaning - what do they actually DO?

And yes you are right, the only person who cooed over my baby was the wonderful woman who bought me some lunch, she spent longer with me than any midwife did, I was a home birth that transferred and it was as if they didn't know I was there!

AFAIK bounty and the photograph people are seperate, I think the photographers pay for the priveledge of being there but no idea what the arrangement is... And as far as bounty goes, it is the same as any other free offer thrust at you during pregnancy... It is all about product placement... They give you a free pouch of comfort, you might use it, you might not... But when you pop to the supermarket and are wandering down the washing powder aisle you recognise the packaging... You automatically feel comfortable with the brand because there is a little pouch of it sitting in your house somewhere.... Companies pay a premium to get their little pouches into your house as a freebie...

daphne_descends

They are just advertisers then. Hmmmm.

I wonder if the OP will come back and tell us what the baby is anyway!

jellyhead

At my hospital bounty are the photographers, and the same lady who hands you your pack of freebies arranges the photo shoots.

it's VERY expensive, and most people say afterwards that it doesn't 'look' like their baby. Mine certainly didn't, his bounty photo shows him angry and starving

As for scans, our hospital does tell you, and you often see pregnant women walking around eating ice creams, trying to wake their baby up with something cold, to move them around a bit because the sonographer couldn't see the genitals. It means an extra scan, and is time consuming, I can see why a hospital might say they won't do it without charging.

keelykat

(the lady at my local hospital who did our 20 week scan was lovely, and she gave us 2 great photo's....couldn't complain.)

themaccas

Bounty - they do pay for the privilage of being there. If it was starting now I doubt whether they would be able to come in and do the photos but they have been around for many, many years. I know the money they paid to the ward last year paid for 5 midwives to attend a 2 day ALSO (Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics) course that costs £400 each and 2 midwives to attend a 1 day NLS (Newborn Life Support) course that cost £150 each. The NHS Trust had funded 3 midwives to attend these courses but the additional funds meant that many more could attend which benefits all pregnant women.

DKLS

Fly_Baby wrote: »

The sonographer is doing both in most cases. When examining internal organs it is hard not to notice anyway.

As I said I didn't pay to know sex of my son - it was just told to me like to everybody else. But I had to treat my daughter's medical problems privately to the extent of taking her to another country to be seen by a foreign doctor. And not because I wanted fancy treatment - but because the NHS doctor was ****dy useless. As was the second opinion doctor, with lots of credentials.

So are you saying that if I am not happy with NHS I should go privately? Do you suggest that I don't pay for NHS then? For the orthopaedic treatment that my newborn daughter never received? Oh, and for those essential scans that I was never given on NHS? I don't see why I still should be paying for these in taxes and NI if I am paying for them privately elsewehere.

Of course, this is never going to happen. So please spare me all these details of how my desire to know the baby's sex would prevent the sonographer from doing her job properly. Everybody in every job is doing a bit extra all the time - including me and, I am sure, including you.

Somehow I dont think you would be happy unless you had Prof Kypros Nicolaides himself do the screening.

Fly_Baby

Krystaltips wrote: »

The hospital don't hire photographers to come to the maternity wards and in the opinion of most midwives they, and the bounty lady are a nuisance and interfere with the intimate bonding of parent and newborn. And if you've ever spent a great deal of time on a post natal ward you might notice that the midwives and nurses on duty don't have time to coo at the newborn, they have jobs to do and very limited time to do them...

I don't know if you call two labours a great deal of time but amaizingly nurses found time to be nice to me and say nice things avout the baby. Every single one of them. Free of charge. Maybe that's why I have so pleasant memories of being pregnant and giving birth as well as of UK hospitals (I had two births in two different counties).

Maybe I was just lucky.

Fly_Baby

DKLS wrote: »

Somehow I dont think you would be happy unless you had Prof Kypros Nicolaides himself do the screening.

Where did this come from?

If we are discussing scans then I already said that I was happy with the scans that I got from NHS - and nobody charged me 50 pounds for letting me know that I was having a boy. And can you believe this - they even smiled when I was smiling! And said "What a happy news!". Oh, and they said "You must be proud, aren't you" to my husband. In fact, they said a lot of other nice things before, during and after the scan. I wonder where on earth they found time for that? They should have performed the job and thrown me out in an instant once it is finished so that I don't take up the precious NHS time. This is not time for sentiments!

Fly_Baby

themaccas wrote: »

Bounty - they do pay for the privilage of being there. If it was starting now I doubt whether they would be able to come in and do the photos but they have been around for many, many years. I know the money they paid to the ward last year paid for 5 midwives to attend a 2 day ALSO (Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics) course that costs £400 each and 2 midwives to attend a 1 day NLS (Newborn Life Support) course that cost £150 each. The NHS Trust had funded 3 midwives to attend these courses but the additional funds meant that many more could attend which benefits all pregnant women.

They pay of course but they are providing a service that patients enjoy. Not just bringing some money into the hospital.