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January 2011 Moms
taggiecb
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how would you feel?
taggiecb
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I just saw a post that someone found out they are having a boy when the first ultrasound tech said girl.
I have an ultrasound next week and was told last time I am having a boy. I don't know how I will feel if I find out it is a girl instead. I am happy any way it goes, but now that I am told he is a boy he is a little more of a person, and if I am all of a sudden told it is a girl, it will be a different person all together?
How would you feel if you find out your ultrasound was wrong?
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Re: how would you feel?
~EDD Nov 18, 2017 with my IUI success story~
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a friend of mine was told they were having a boy, so they decorated the nursery with baseball theme and obviously had boy clothes all ready to go. when the baby was born, A GIRL. yeah he was a little upset. i think with me, if i was told it was a boy or girl and then it changed at another ultra sound i would be disappointed because you're expecting boy/girl so you prepare yourself for boy/girl. i hope you're still having a boy next week.
~EDD Nov 18, 2017 with my IUI success story~
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When I was pregnant with the boys I was told I was having a boy and a girl. Well at 30 weeks I had another ultrasound where they told me it might actually be two boys...At 32 weeks sure enough I had two boys. We went to the hospital with a list of names we liked and never were set on one or the other. I don't remember at the time what I felt when I was told I might be having two boys....part of me just thought well at least they'll probably be best friends and play well together growing up. I do still have little girl clothes in our closet though lol.
This time we were told if she had to make a guess she would guess it's another boy...ummm really. I didn't see any little boys parts, he/she was kicking up a storm and my placenta is low so it was hard to get a good shot. I'm not convinced so I hope I get another ultrasound sometimes in the near future.
This exactly.
I'm with this...and also what another PP said... We call our LO Sophie...talk about meeting 'her' and DH has gotten used to referring to her as a her..rather then it...lol. I would love it either way..and i've been badgering DH to think of a boy's name just in case. A girl I worked with had 3 boys and was pregnant with a 4th...got told it was a girl. She was ecstatic, asked them to be 100% sure, they went in from different angles at different times and told them 110% sure...so they decorated for a girl, bought all girl stuff..and it popped out another boy. Now, IMO , she went a little overboard with her reaction. She threw a freaking fit...refused to dress her newborn to come home from the hospital in anything they bought..even if it wasn't pink...forced her relatives to go out yard sale-ing to purchase all boy stuff before she could go home. Made her DH return the stroller they'd bought because it had a flower on it.
I think that while i'll be a little upset, because we've invested so much in referring to her as 'her'...but I think i'll get over it pretty quickly...i mean, healthy baby=fantastic either way, right?
I'm not sure if the post you're referring to is mine from the Expecting a Sibling thread, but if it is that was a totally weird situation. I was in the ER at 19 weeks and the tech there (who has way less fancy equipment and way less experience looking at baby anatomy than my OB office) gave us a guess. For some reason, I just didn't think she was right so I was never really set on the idea of having a girl.
That said, I think I'd be bummed for sure if I had made my plans around baby being one sex and coming out another. I'm glad to have decent u/s penis shots this time around so I don't have to wonder.
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I am just wondering when you went for your ultrasounds did the tech not tell u that there is always a 10% chance they could be wrong? They warn you up here that they can always be wrong. Now Im not saying we wouldnt be upset at all but when I've already been warned that they may be wrong then how upset could i really be either way this is still my child and it was still formed in me. But they only do one ultrasound here unless it is medicaly nessesary or you go in and pay for a second. Also depending on where you go they may not tell you the gender before 21 weeks they will send it to you dr upon request but they wont tell you. (apparently some cultures will abort if it isnt the gender they want) Just putting it out there.
To be honest, I would be devastated. We wanted a son so bad, and now that we are having one, I think we would both be crushed if the baby was indeed a girl. Lately I have been having this reoccurring dream that I went in for my level II ultra sound and it was a girl. I have my last (hopefully) u/s with the peri on Sept 14th. The first thing I am asking is the gender. If it's a girl, I will probably cry, but I will eventually get over it.
BTW - My friend was told she was having a girl throughout her entire pregnancy. When the baby was born, it was a boy. She already had two boys at home and was devastated that she would never have a little girl. It took her several weeks to "mourn" her loss. I felt so bad for her! Now, she loves him to death, but those first few weeks were extremely difficult for her.
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This is why I'm holding off on all the pink as of now. The tech did not see what she wanted to see at u/s, but said she was *almost* 100% it was a girl. I suppose she should know what she is doing after 30 years of doing this, but human error does occur. So we're saying team pink for now until next u/s.
Actually my DH started freaking out about this yesterday. Especially since we had the tech write down the sex, and she put the picture in the envelope as well, but since she didn't SHOW us the parts and all. I hear it's more common for them to tell you girl and for it to be a boy, because of hiding parts.
DH and I might get an elective later on, just to be sure. We plan on doing everything neutral anyway.
One of the few reasons I'm glad we had to go through the chromosomal testing. No guessing unless that tech made a mistake! We did see the girlie bits on the u/s today, so I'm not concerned about any errors. That being said, one reason I didn't want to find out initially is that mistakes happen.
I also knew someone who thought they were having a boy but it was a girl. She's pretty flexible, so it was more of a joke, but I'd probably be throwing a fit.