Gender wrong at 12 weeks?? Was told boy now 18w girl?!

kistner3

Anyone else experience this?! Any one have any gender pics to compare. I'm going crazy because what if they are wrong again! 

chrlyr

Who was telling you the sex at 12 weeks? I know some techs will guess, but you generally have to be at least 14 and even then I wouldn't be painting the nursery yet. 

Shazzie116

I would never take a 12 week gender prediction as the final word. Too early. 

jmacd22

12 wks is very early to tell. They shouldn't have confirmed it that early. 

Spartanrd4

I had genetic testing at 12 weeks that said the sex but feel that is way too early to confirm via ultrasound.

kistner3

My obgyn ultrasound tech she was pretty sure!  

jmacd22

When is your anatomy scan? I would just wait until then to confirm or compare pics. 

kistner3

That's the pic from my anatomy scan today. They didn't provide pics from my 12 week 

kap1988

12 weeks is really early.  I don't think you can really count on it until closer to 16 or 17 weeks.

jmacd22

I would trust the anatomy scan ultrasound over the 12 wk one. Maybe do an elective ultrasound if you want a second opinion. 

nursemama-2

12 weeks is way too early to tell. The parts aren't even developed and can often look the same at that point. 

vino831

In my area the earliest to to an elective US is 13 weeks but even that is kinda early. We didn't do elective until 15 weeks with both and it was obvious what it was. As @mcdonald-bailey I'd definitely trust your anatomy scan over the 12 week. 

DrillSergeantCat

mcdonald-bailey said:

12 wks is very early to tell. They shouldn't have confirmed it that early. 

They really shouldn't have been trying to at that point!

OctoberLove13

According to Google: "Here's a comparison of fetal genitalia at 11 weeks" 

ngcsugirl1112

My friend from high school was told girl at her anatomy scan and ended up having a boy...

CanadianintheSouth

Ditto to everyone above... 12 weeks is far too early to tell.

thisisallyson

ngcsugirl1112 said:

My friend from high school was told girl at her anatomy scan and ended up having a boy...

Happened to my sister with her 2nd. The doc swore up and down it was a girl, even telling her a few weeks before she gave birth that she should go buy little girl clothes. And what came out? My nephew, Peter.

mtmama2

OctoberLove13 said:

According to Google: "Here's a comparison of fetal genitalia at 11 weeks" 

Well thanks Google lol  Yikes those pictures make me cringe

Happyhiker

My sister was totally a boy in ultrasounds. Guess that anatomy was a well-placed finger. 

Minger86

My last pregnancy, I got an elective ultrasound... I didn't do it for gender reveal purposes, but that was included.... So they wouldn't see anyone before 15 weeks because it's too hard to tell before then. They said girl, and it was confirmed at my 18 week anatomy scan.

Burrberrymum

Like PP mentioned 12 weeks is very early to tell. Our niece was supposed to be a boy the entire pregnancy even the anatomy scan they were told boy.. Turns out, surprise, she was a girl! So sometimes it's not 100%. It mostly happens when you expect a boy and baby is born and voila a girl because sometimes the swelling of the genitals takes longer for some baby girls to go down, which makes it hard to distinguish in the ultrasound. Going from boy to seeing it's a girl in the ultrasound is more likely to be accurate that baby is in fact a girl if that makes you feel any better. If that makes sense, I'm tired. 

kjd291

Gosh ladies!! These stories are now making me even more paranoid my ultrasound tech was incorrect 

catrb89

Agree with PPs, 12 weeks is too early to get a solid idea. We had a guess at 13 weeks, the tech had only an 80% confidence in the sex. We also did Sneak Peek, so we're pretty sure it's a girl, but I'm still not going to buy a ton of pink stuff yet. The genitalia are way too similar at 12 weeks to know for sure. 

direwolfmini

My ultrasound tech would only make a guess today at 16 weeks 5 days.

@kistner3 when is your next ultrasound? Maybe, based on the fact that they got the sex wrong the first time they would be willing to take an extra close look next time. 

kistner3

Not until 36 weeks! But I'm going crazy so I scheduled an elective one for the 29th hehe!

KirstinH88

Lurking from April 2017

A friend of mine had a tech make a guess at 12 weeks. They told her it was a boy. When she told me I told her that it was WAY too early to really tell. Then later on (can't remember the exact week), she was told she was having a girl. Sure enough, the first "guess" was wrong.

alexandrae90

Now I'm nervous!! Our tech was certain we are having a boy at our NT scan at 13w4d !!

EnglishTeacherMama

Yeah, remember how some people have all kinds of nub theories based on 12 week scans? That's because both sexes have nubs at 12 weeks. Nub doesn't equal penis! 

ihateusernames*

Ummm I hate to break it to you but even the anatomy scan isn't always accurate...

SURPRISE!!! 

my anatomy scan with an OB and ultrasound tech told me a girl with our last kid... At 38 weeks, our ultrasound said boy... We had a boy. 

It's not too late to switch to team green

vprod

my tech at the 12 week was 100% sure it was a girl. now I'm questioning everything!

potato3000

@OctoberLove13 That's crazy!

@ihateusernames* Part of the reason I checked this thread out was because I knew it'd make me feel even better about being Team Green -- as exciting as it would be to know early, I'll take the 100% accurate 'reveal' at birth Now, I just have to make it through one more U/S without giving in to the tiny part of me that's dying to know ASAP..

wintersong

1. Of trust as over the first
2. You really cant actually tell girl ufor sure nless you visualize the labia. A lot of techs will say girl just because they didn't see a penis. But that penis could be hiding! From what I understand labia on an as look like three parallel lines. Did you get a good crotch shot? Check to see what you see.