Team Green Roll Call/Support

Wishilivedinflorida

Since we are exiting the thick of AS time, how many of us are left? Did anyone cave in? Holding strong? Thought it would be fun to see how many of us there are!

Wishilivedinflorida

I’m here still! We held strong at the AS but this time I feel more impatient than I did with DS. We get a growth scan around 36 weeks, so I have one more opportunity to cave in, but DH won’t let me. 

Eta spelling issue. Damn autocorrect. 

cbobell2009

I'm here! Holding strong!! SO really wanted to know but I want the surprise so we made it through!

[Deleted User]

Still standing!  AS went well, and no real spoilers ;)

jumpy57

Hello! Still team green... Though I do inform everyone that it's DHs decision and not mine

ETA: I worded that weird, DH really wants a surprise and I'm going along with it. I did try to figure it out during the AS but couldn't tell anything

JLyn821

Still Team Green here!!

I was so worried that the surprise would be ruined at our a/s last week, but our tech was great! She said she purposely waits until the end to check sex so that she can’t slip up and say he/she and she had us look away any time she needed to measure anything below belly. Whew! We made it! DH still would prefer knowing but I’m not even a little tempted. I’m so so so excited to NOT know this time. 

sarah-ruby-21

AS is next week but I'm still firmly resolved to be team green! Lots of folks are telling me they think it's a girl.

pourmeanothermocktail

I'm still very resolved, though I had a peek during scan, as that's literally exactly where the scan accidentally started. But, I'm not a tech, and I'm not 100 percent sure anyway, so I'm telling no one what I might have seen, and we're picking out two names still. I did tell my husband, because that seemed polite.

ETA spelling

smsaulino

I swore I would stay green... But caved due to DH. He wanted to know. He made it a point to come to the scan, since I told him I wouldn't find out if he wasn't there. 

Patience7150

Team green here!! This one is bugging me though. We had a level 2 ultrasound instead of a normal one like last time. Last time they could just cruise over and it was NBD that we didn't find out and they had no need to know. This time they "had to document it for medical purposes" and it somewhat bugs me that someone knows. 

Wishilivedinflorida

@patience7150 Interesting how different clinics do things differently. For this one, the poor tech had me get all covered up/wiped off at the end and totally forgot to do the genital check because she was so preoccupied with NOT showing anything! I asked why they check at all and she said it's just to document genitals are visualized. They don't care what you're having, either! It's more to make sure there's no obvious abnormality. She said they assign a number to your chart so that the word male or female isn't visible anywhere, and that my providers wouldn't accidentally slip. I'm not sure what my old OB practice did for DS, but my docs were adamant that they were not privy to the sex at all my appointments. Interestingly enough, my current practice doesn't offer 3D US's but my old practice did. Kinda bummed...I wanted to compare 36 week face pics to see if the siblings look alike in utero!

I know what you mean though...SOMEONE out there knows, even for a moment! It's weird.

[Deleted User]

That was totally how I felt with the NIPT... @Patience7150 @Wishilivedinflorida Somewhere out there there is a piece of paper in a report showing the sex of our baby, but <i>we</i> don't know! So irritating! LOL and then to add insult to injury, I was told that it was basically medically necessary because I'm an old-lady pregnant, only to find out, of course there's still two hundred bucks OOP for the Materni21.  Gah!!!  I didn't really even want the damn test in the first place!

born2run911

I am still here! (Team green), although i have barely been here (the bump) for like the last month! Life has gotten in the way. I survived the anatomy scan awhile back without finding out, although i have to go back on Monday for another as they couldnt see everything they needed. Its going to be tempting to find out, but i will do my best to stick to my guns!

BostonBaby1

Team Green 4 Lyle here! With DD,  I was convinced that she was a girl. Because of a high-risk pregnancy, I get scanned* every other week. But the ultrasound tech is so excellent. I had no idea she was a girl. So I have the high hopes that we will get a third surprise this time. 

@born2run911 Wait... My jumbled brain  is forgetting if we covered this yet? Were you on July 2016 also? Or was it a different BMB?

megnwingate

Still Team Green  

my friend who is an US tech knows but she is keeping it a secret. I feel more impatient this go around. I guess because literally everyone I know that is pregnant or had their baby is having a girl and now I’m convinced this baby will be my 3rd girl.....you know because the sex of everyone else’s child determines mine

ellbeedee

Strong team green here. I get bi weekly ultrasounds for high risk issues and they ask me every time IF I'M SURE I don't want to know. I have no intentions of caving! 

born2run911

@BostonBaby1 yes I was on the July 2016 BMB too! Had a baby girl then. This will be #3 for us and DD1 is convinced this one is a boy. (I read an article the other day that 1st born children are as accurate as anatomy scans at predicting gender, it was on Facebook so it must be true). 

yogapants247

Team green going strong here! Had our anatomy scan early last week and didn't even feel tempted to peek. TBH, I am so freaking busy with moving/painting/decorating our new (first!) house that I don't have too much energy to devote to thinking about this baby much at all right now. I love knowing that we have an extra little "surprise" to look forward to in September, and it has been fun to speculate on whether there is a boy or girl on the way :-)

cornichonmam

I'm team green still. I've had my anomaly scan and managed to keep it a surprise and as I live in the UK I won't have another scan now unless they think there might be a problem. So it's unlikely I'll find out until baby arrives.

cornichonmam

@BusinessWife I don't understand how it can possibly be of any medical value to find out the sex unless there is a known inherited genetic specific condition in the family. It sound like there being awkward to me.

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@cornichonmam When they do the maternit21 / harmony tests, they generate a map of the chromosomes to look for trisomies etc.  So it's moreso just to say yes, we have a normal 46xx or 46xy (female or male).  It's also possible to have an extra x sex chromosome, 47xxx or 47xxy, so finding out the sex sort of just a by-product of checking to make sure the right number of chromosomes are present.

We did have prior genetic testing and were found not to be carriers of any of the 100+ diseases they screen for, but they still told me because of my age, they recommend the NIPT.  So that's why I am annoyed to still be getting a bill. (I will call the insurance to see if there's anything that can be done, or any good explanation.)  But tbh, knowing it's still costing us $200 OOP, (despite the "recommendation), I think we just might skip it for further LOs.  We'll see.

StephieMick

Still strongly Team Green after our AS 5/3!! My mom and sister are DYING to know, but me and hubby are waiting it out until the big day comes. 

chillmama1518

Team Green all the way here! 
Ive fallen off the Bump map though...life is busy right now! 

samd6

We had our 20 week scan and are holding strong! While it is tempting sometimes, I am looking forward to the surprise! We will get another scan at 24 weeks (not sure why, although I am on blood thinners, I am not labeled as "high risk" to my knowledge.) and I am sure they will ask AGAIN if we want to know.

BostonBaby1

So I am team green for the third time and for whatever reason so many people are assuming I don’t want to know because we have one of each. Hard eye roll. Can I just like the surprise? 

samd6

@BostonBaby1 there is SO MUCH that we know and can't avoid knowing, the surprise of the sex is the best surprise! I've only had a few people give me crap about not finding out, most people have been super supportive, which is nice. The people who have given me crap just want to buy sex specific gifts and it's driving THEM nuts to not know (which honestly is a small part of why I am holding strong, because I am an a-hole). 

StephieMick

Had our AS 5/3 and holding strong with Team Green!! Absolutely cannot wait for the biggest and best surprise of our lives.