Overview
- London call handler Kizzi Woodman says three high-street ultrasounds in early pregnancy each reported no issues before her routine 12‑week hospital scan.
- NHS sonographers then identified that the fetus’s organs were developing outside the body and referred her for specialist assessment.
- A hospital specialist indicated the abnormalities were potentially linked to limb‑body wall complex, a rare and severe condition.
- At a follow-up scan a week later in July, she was told the fetus had died, and she took medication to complete the miscarriage.
- The Society of Radiographers this month warned of dangerous misdiagnoses in some private clinics and renewed calls to make 'sonographer' a protected title, while Woodman urges parents to research providers and treat non-clinical scans cautiously.