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Can you learn gender from NT scan?

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My friend who is pregnant just told me that is when she found out the sex of her son back in May. She is now 6 months and at that time she was 4 months. I have my NT scan on July 19 and I will be in my 13th week and I thought that was early to learn the sex. What have you heard or know about this? TIA
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  • pawcallpawcall member

    your ultrasound tech may make a guess, but you shouldn't put too much stock in it, since boy parts and girl parts are nearly identical at this point.

    My NT is Monday and I will be 13w exactly.  I hope they guess, because it'd be fun to hear, but I know that the odds are probably only slightly better than 50/50 that they're correct.

     

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  • locashlocash

    Some techs will tell you (with a disclaimer that it's not nearly as definite as the big scan at 20 weeks). My tech would not. :(

    But yes, I've heard of a lot of people find out the gender that early. GL!

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  • dxiechicken41dxiechicken41 member

    I had mine at 13 weeks and they didn't attempt to guess.

    Hopefully this means there's no penis and therefore it's a girl. LOL. Just kidding.

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  • RachelMarie83RachelMarie83

    At my NT scan, the ultrasound tech told us she is 75% sure its a girl.  Since it's not definite, we haven't told anyone IRL that we know the sex yet. 

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  • companion cubecompanion cube member
    I'll be figuring the gender out at 4 months at 17 weeks 5 days, but usually you have an NT scan before that. That is when I 'm having my big u/s, the anantomy scan, could that have been what she meant?
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  • kknapp25kknapp25
    Typically you'd have better luck find out gender around 20 weeks, although some techs will "guess" around 18 weeks. i think baby needs to pose just right for that to work though, i've never heard of someone telling you as early as 13/14 weeks.
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  • amuelleamuelle

    We have a place in Houston that does gender testing through mothers blood work at 11 weeks.

    https://www.geneticstesting.com/gendertest/gendertest.htm

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  • pawcallpawcall member
    imageamuelle:

    We have a place in Houston that does gender testing through mothers blood work at 11 weeks.

    https://www.geneticstesting.com/gendertest/gendertest.htm

    Wonder how much they charge for that...

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  • jessr510jessr510
    The only people I've heard of finding out at the NT scan were 2 couples that had boys.  I guess the techs were sure because of the extra appendage, lol, but I wouldn't imagine they'd ever be 100% sure it's a girl that early...
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  • Doodle2011Doodle2011
    Mine guessed today (girl), she said she looks at a teeny line in the genital area that is usually horizontal for a girl or vertical for a boy, but said repeatedly "now don't go buy all girl clothes yet!!!"  I didn't ask the doc what he thought, we will know soon enough.  I know it's a girl though, heart rate is high (163) and I just feel it.
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  • kpvkpv

    Both the ultrasound tech and the doctor seemed very confident that it was a boy for us because it was pointing straight up (with girls it is more horizontal). 

     

     

     

     

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  • seasidebride05seasidebride05 member
    My dr. made a guess at the NT scan--she guessed boy and then said the standard don't paint the nursery blue yet.  Two seconds later she said oh yeah, it's aboy.  So, while we will find out for sure in 7 weeks, I am thinking it is probably a boy.
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  • wiscgirl95wiscgirl95 member

    My tech guessed for me.  She said "girl, you're having a girl" very quickly.  It was fun to hear especially since I have no "feeling" one way or the other.  But I'm not going out and buying all girly stuff just yet. 

    One of my friends from college is an MFM and I asked her.  She laughed and told me she won't let her techs guess. 

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  • pawcallpawcall member

    imagejessr510:
    The only people I've heard of finding out at the NT scan were 2 couples that had boys.  I guess the techs were sure because of the extra appendage, lol, but I wouldn't imagine they'd ever be 100% sure it's a girl that early...

    Problem is, girls have an extra "appendage" this early as well.  It's freaky how similar they look.

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