From Sonographer to Entrepreneurship A Mother's Vision

Ever wondered how a simple ultrasound could transform the experience of pregnancy for expectant mothers? 

Join us as we sit down with Aisia Bates, owner and experienced sonographer of Sweetface Scans, who has turned her passion for babies into a business dedicated to providing intimate 3D, 4D, and HD live ultrasound services. 

Aisia opens up about her fascinating journey from the medical field to entrepreneurship, sharing the heartfelt inspiration behind her venture and how it empowers women to connect more deeply with their unborn children. Tune in to hear her story of independence, fulfillment, and the joy of offering expectant families a unique, personal glimpse into their future.

As we close out this live recording, we want to express our gratitude to our amazing listeners for their unwavering support and enthusiasm. 
We're excited to bring you more engaging interviews and guest appearances on "Instructions Not Included," where we discuss all aspects of pregnancy, parenting and personal journeys. From all of us at Sweetface Scans, thank you for joining us on this incredible ride. Stay tuned for more inspiring stories and insights—there's so much more to come!

Chapters

• 0:00 Sweet Face Scans
• 9:53 Thanking Listeners and Signing Off

Transcript

Claude Bates: 0:00

All right, all right, welcome, welcome, welcome to the first live recording of Instructions Not Included, presented by Sweetf ace Scans. I got the queen in the building. Hey, this is my lovely wife and co-owner of Sweetf ace Scans, Aisia Bates. How you doing today, my baby, I'm doing lovely and you, baby, I'm doing great, doing great. So glad to get this started. Just a quick introduction of Sweetf ace Scans and who we are, and I got a few questions for the lovely Aisia. Tell the listeners who we are and what services we offer.

Aisia Bates: 0:40

Sweetf ace Scans is a 3D/ 4D ultrasound service. We offer services for pregnant women and their families so they can come see their little ones while the baby is still in the womb. Of course, we're able to see the baby's gender and either we can tell the family they're on the spot or we can put it in a sealed envelope so they can see it later. Also, we love to do 3D,/4D and HD live images of the baby.

Claude Bates: 1:11

Give the listeners a little bit of why we created the service and the need for it.

Aisia Bates: 1:18

One of my main reasons for creating a service like this was to empower women, so women can have the ability and the option to see their baby when they want to.

Claude Bates: 1:41

It's just been truly a blessing, not just for our pregnant families, but for us as well absolutely how long have you uh been a sonographer?

Aisia Bates: 1:51

I've been a sonographer for 18 years, plus two years of school, almost two years of schooling, so right at 20, 20 years and it's one of the best things I've ever done. As far as career is to become a sonographer, and my main goal the whole time was I absolutely love babies. No matter what I did, I've scanned every part of the body, but babies were my absolute favorite.

Claude Bates: 2:26

Prior to becoming a sonographer doing ultrasounds, you did x-ray correct.

Aisia Bates: 2:32

I'm an x-ray technologist as well. Right at 22 years, I'm going into this year, which that was probably, I would say, my first love.

Aisia Bates: 2:44

I loved to do x-rays as well, but knew pretty early in my career that I would be going into ultrasound and got in the next term into ultrasound school, coming out of x-ray. So it was a very selective process. Just a little bit about it. Over 100 plus applicants and they took in only 16 of us at that time and 15 out of 16 made it to graduate. It was truly a life learning experience. I don't think I've ever studied so much in my life so, but it was. It was great experience. I'm thankful for it.

Claude Bates: 3:26

W what did the name sweet face come from? Sweetf ace Scan so there was a very popular tv show it's a series that was on and she had a little boy and his name was Mr. Sweet Face. I absolutely loved the show and I loved when she would call him Mr. Sweet Face. So I went through, you know, my trial and error with coming up with names for our business on Can't Be Mr, can't Be Miss, because we have boys and girls unisex and you know I wanted to keep it equal for everyone. So I came up with Sweetface Skins and I didn't tell anybody the name of my husband and my oldest daughter and I was like what do y'all think about this? And he was like, yeah, we love it. So for many years I kept that name under wraps. We moved from Louisiana to Georgia in 2017. And I still would not tell my friends the name of the business. ace Sweetface Scans, Sooooo, what are you going to name it? I was like, oh, I'm thinking about it. I'm not sure, Because I wanted it to be a surprise for everyone, Because I really thought about it and said all of these little sweet faces I will see in the 3D, 4D ultrasound, that is what I'm going to call it, Sweetf ace Scans.

Aisia Bates: 4:50

That's the one beautiful thing about my job. That's one of the beautiful things about my job and owning a business is meeting the people, engaging in their lives and engaging in conversation with them about their pregnancies and what they're going through. They're so giving in, allowing us to be a part of their life, and I truly respect it and I'm thankful for each and every one of them.

Claude Bates: 5:24

So what made you want to own your own business, though?

Aisia Bates: 5:28

I have been in the medical field for I think, like I said, about 22 years, and worked several hospitals and doctor's offices, and it came a point in time where I was starting to become unhappy with my job, coming home, not being myself. I have a girlfriend who calls me Bubbles. Being myself.

Aisia Bates: 5:56

I have a girlfriend who calls me Bubbles, so not being myself just being kind of angry and upset with I didn't really know what you know. So, upon analyzing, meditating, praying over it, I realized that it was my job, it was the politics of the job, it was some of the people on the job. It was the politics of the job, it was some of the people on the job. It was me being under somebody else's thumb all the time and I know I'm a very talented person who could do whatever I wanted to do. And thank God, I had you behind me saying when I brought it to the your attention, you were like, yeah, let's, let's do it. And I was scared, shitless. I'm like let's do what? Um?

Claude Bates: 6:48

so it was an idea.

Aisia Bates: 6:50

Um, way before we moved to Georgia to open up our own 3D/ 4D, I had two girlfriends that owned their own shop and back home, and I just didn't want to step on their toes, a lot of my friends were like you should do it anyway. You should do it anyways. You know so many people, you'll be very successful at what you're doing. Open your own 3D/ 4D. I'm like no, I can't, because I respect them so much that I don't want to step on their toes, because I know people are coming to see me, you know, because my customers really like me. They become, we become attached to each other, basically.

Aisia Bates: 7:33

So, anyway, moving here, I started to write a business plan and that took about six and a half months and I had no idea what I was doing, but I was going through the motions, learning all the steps of a business and how to run a business. While, Claude, you kept it, you know you held it down. You were still working and taking care of everything, and so, yeah it. You know you held it down, you were still working and taking care of everything, and so, yeah it was definitely a process.

Claude Bates: 8:01

It was a process, but it was something that we both put on our vision board. We both wrote it down, we made it tangible, We've connected the dots over the years. And so, just to you know, in closing, I'm just going to let everybody know where y'all can, where y'all can find us at. You know you can definitely go online at sweetfacecans. com. You'll see all the services that we offer. You know you can schedule your appointments. If you have any questions, you can access through the website or even you know contact us on Facebook. We're on Facebook and Instagram. We're actually located at 44 Darby's Crossing Drive, Suite 112 in Hiram, Georgia. That's a 30141. You can go there. You can give us a call at 678-398-7218. But it's just so much easier if you can go on to the website and see the services that we offer and, you know, book you a session, Come on out, check us out and get you some keepsake, memorabilia, something that once in a lifetime that you can always look back on.

Claude Bates: 9:32

We do offer those heartbeat bears as well. So capture the baby's heartbeat, put it in a bear. I think you know those things are just so priceless. Yeah, it's priceless. You know, I wish that they had those back, you know, when our kids were born. Well, even if they did I wasn't aware of, I tell you that. So, as we close out, we just want to thank all the listeners for checking us out. Shout out to everybody. We will be connecting with everyone with these lives. I'm looking forward to having more interviews and getting guests appearing on the instructions not included and being able to just share your experience.

Aisia Bates: 10:20

So, in closing, anything that you'd like to you know, tell our viewers, our listeners just like to thank you for tuning in and listening to us tonight, just explaining a little bit about our businesses that, um, and our upcoming journeys that we have in our lives, um, but thank you thank you.

Claude Bates: 10:41

Thank you for signing out from Sweet face Scans and the Instructions Not Included live. Once again, we want to thank you. This concludes our session. We'll see you again next week.