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Gender Prediction with Multiples

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Good Weekend Ladies,

We still have quite a few weeks to go until our big u/s but I was just reading something about gender predictions that stressed they can't always be made due to baby's positioning.  I was wondering if this makes it harder to predict with multiples because the babies are more crowded and may not move as much.  Was anyone unable to get a prediction and ended up having to wait until birth? TIA

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  • monkskimonkski
    the nice thing about multiples is that you generally have a lot more u/s than a singleton pregnancy that usually just has the one at 20 weeks. I've had one or two a month since I became pregnant.  So even if they are in an unfavorable position at one time, you have a good chance of getting them at another. I was able to find out at 15 weeks.
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  • macchiattomacchiatto member
    Yeah, ditto pp's. I did have to go in for a follow-up anatomy scan because they couldn't get all the measurements due to the babies blocking each other but it was just a few things (femur length for one baby, heart for the other baby, etc.) and I remember them saying that sometimes happens with multiples. We never had any problem seeing the sexes though.
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    imagemonkski:
    the nice thing about multiples is that you generally have a lot more u/s than a singleton pregnancy that usually just has the one at 20 weeks. I've had one or two a month since I became pregnant.  So even if they are in an unfavorable position at one time, you have a good chance of getting them at another. I was able to find out at 15 weeks.

    Are you seeing an MFM? I'm going to my reg OB and they so far just gave me one at 9wks (which I had to ask for), my NT, and they said there will be  the 20 and 28 wk ones.  It was such a shock coming from the RE who handed out u/s's like candy on Halloween!

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    image2006july15bride:

    imagemonkski:
    the nice thing about multiples is that you generally have a lot more u/s than a singleton pregnancy that usually just has the one at 20 weeks. I've had one or two a month since I became pregnant.  So even if they are in an unfavorable position at one time, you have a good chance of getting them at another. I was able to find out at 15 weeks.

    Are you seeing an MFM? I'm going to my reg OB and they so far just gave me one at 9wks (which I had to ask for), my NT, and they said there will be  the 20 and 28 wk ones.  It was such a shock coming from the RE who handed out u/s's like candy on Halloween!

    I'm now seeing a MFM after the NT scan - my OB's hand over all ultrasound monitoring to the MFM. We'll have one the next ultrasound at 18 weeks - then monthly till 26 weeks and then bi-weekly after that. My OB's reasoning is because the ultrasounds at the MFM are better equppiped to watch growth of twins.

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  • ardillaardilla member
    We never had to worry about not getting a look -- I had a LOT of u/s.  We had a pretty definitive "girl" on DD at 16w and no guess on DS at that time, but at one u/s at 20w they confirmed DD and said DS was a boy, and then when I had an additional scan a few days later they said the same.
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    image2006july15bride:

    imagemonkski:
    the nice thing about multiples is that you generally have a lot more u/s than a singleton pregnancy that usually just has the one at 20 weeks. I've had one or two a month since I became pregnant.  So even if they are in an unfavorable position at one time, you have a good chance of getting them at another. I was able to find out at 15 weeks.

    Are you seeing an MFM? I'm going to my reg OB and they so far just gave me one at 9wks (which I had to ask for), my NT, and they said there will be  the 20 and 28 wk ones.  It was such a shock coming from the RE who handed out u/s's like candy on Halloween!

    I saw only and OB and had an u/s once a month until about 30 weeks, and then every other week until I delivered.

    We found out the genders at 16 weeks. 

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