gender

lovechelly

When did you find out your baby's gender?

I'm 25weeks & very impatient to find out already.

PugsandKisses

I agree with PP. However, are you in Canada?

oneblessedmess

I was 19 weeks when we found out at our anatomy scan. Why haven't you had one already?

SaltyMcNulty

In Canada (and at least a few other countries), they can't legally tell you the sex because of fears of abortion/infanticide for being the "wrong" sex.

YogaSandy

SaltyMcNulty said:

In Canada (and at least a few other countries), they can't legally tell you the sex because of fears of abortion/infanticide for being the "wrong" sex.

Maybe not, but I'm in Canada and was told. Maybe they get around it by not actually saying boy or girl. She told me she saw a penis. Her exact words were "it's a penis kind of baby".

ETA. I know I had read about it (possibly becoming???) illegal in BC long before I was pregnant. I don't know if it is or not. However, it could vary by province because health care is under provincial jurisdiction.

groovylocks

Yeah Salty, not sure where you heard that but I'm from canada and all my friends found out at 20 weeks. Might be that certain provinces have a weird rule like that but none that i've lived in.

groovylocks

And i find that asinine. If the kid has a penis, he's a boy until he tells us otherwise. If he tells us otherwise, then he's not. 

That's the end of it. 

KayDollaSign

I found out at 18 weeks that we are having another BOY!!! I could not be more excited. 

amberrmariee20

SaltyMcNulty said:

In Canada (and at least a few other countries), they can't legally tell you the sex because of fears of abortion/infanticide for being the "wrong" sex.

They wouldn't tell me at my anatomy scan. But we have a UCbaby and they tell us anytime after 18weeks for around $150+ I'm also in Canada, Nova Scotia.

amberrmariee20

sunrise135 said:

amberrmariee20 said:

SaltyMcNulty said:

In Canada (and at least a few other countries), they can't legally tell you the sex because of fears of abortion/infanticide for being the "wrong" sex.

They wouldn't tell me at my anatomy scan. But we have a UCbaby and they tell us anytime after 18weeks for around $150+ I'm also in Canada, Nova Scotia.

Ok, this makes no sense.....you can not have professional medical personnel tell you boy or girl during an anatomy scan? BUT YET, ordinances/laws allow someone to open up private boutiques, with nonprofessionals doing a scan and they can tell you boy or girl, and that's legal???? Interesting, very interesting.

The people who do the ultrasounds at UCBaby are medical personnel. They are trained professionals, but I think the main reason the hospital doesn't tell us at our anatomy scan is due to the chance they are wrong and we try to sue. UCbaby makes you sign and fill out paper work. Our health care is also free is Canada so it could be to get more money also.

My Dr said before my anatomy scan that everything must be good from UCbaby, because if they find markers for downs, or other known medical problems they will forward the ultrasound to my Dr ! It's all so confusing I know !

MommyPhoenix

YogaSandy said:

In Canada (and at least a few other countries), they can't legally tell you the sex because of fears of abortion/infanticide for being the "wrong" sex.

Maybe not, but I'm in Canada and was told. Maybe they get around it by not actually saying boy or girl. She told me she saw a penis. Her exact words were "it's a penis kind of baby". ETA. I know I had read about it (possibly becoming???) illegal in BC long before I was pregnant. I don't know if it is or not. However, it could vary by province because health care is under provincial jurisdiction.

 

 

Interesting, I am in BC and we were given the option to find out the sex of both our kids. With my daughter, during the anatomy scan they asked if we wanted to know, but we declined. For this pregnancy, I wasn't sure if they would tell us because we were at a different clinic but they asked if we wanted to know and told us straight out "it's a boy".

groovylocks

amberrmariee20 said:

In Canada (and at least a few other countries), they can't legally tell you the sex because of fears of abortion/infanticide for being the "wrong" sex.

They wouldn't tell me at my anatomy scan. But we have a UCbaby and they tell us anytime after 18weeks for around $150+ I'm also in Canada, Nova Scotia.

@amberrmariee20 YOU'RE A BLUENOSER?? I'M A BLUENOSER!

I live in Michigan now. I'm very homesick.. I'm from Halifax!

amberrmariee20

groovylocks said:

amberrmariee20 said:

SaltyMcNulty said:

In Canada (and at least a few other countries), they can't legally tell you the sex because of fears of abortion/infanticide for being the "wrong" sex.

They wouldn't tell me at my anatomy scan. But we have a UCbaby and they tell us anytime after 18weeks for around $150+ I'm also in Canada, Nova Scotia.

@amberrmariee20 YOU'RE A BLUENOSER?? I'M A BLUENOSER!

I live in Michigan now. I'm very homesick.. I'm from Halifax!

Yes yes !! Cape Breton (; !