Before the Stork

Ratings

• Overall

  Good

• Safe

  Good

• Effective

  Good

• Caring

  Good

• Responsive

  Good

• Well-led

  Good

Our view of the service

Before the Stork is an independent provider established in 2006 to provide parents with a memorable keepsake of their pregnancy through professional images and film of their unborn baby using ultrasound equipment.

The service is in Litherland, Liverpool, with good transport links and on-street parking. The service is located on the ground floor of a privately leased property. The service offers early pregnancy reassurance scans (from 6 to 14 weeks pregnancy), sexing/gender scans, 2D, 3D and 4D scans undertaken in HDLive (from 14-32 weeks pregnancy) and growth and presentation scans (from 24 weeks to term).

The main service provided was diagnostic imaging for baby keepsake scan pictures.