An early scan may show whether or not you have a viable ongoing pregnancy. The scan will let you know if there is a heartbeat, which would be visualised not heard at this stage and beats per minute taken using a M-mode which is a safe way to measure your babys heart rate in early pregnancy.

What does an early pregnancy scan tell you?

An Early Pregnancy Scan (sometimes also called a Viability Scan or Dating Scan) provides reassurance in this very early stage of your pregnancy. A pregnancy can be seen on scan from as early as 6 weeks from the first day of your last period (LMP). We should be able to see a heartbeat from 6 weeks.