I never heard of this until someone mentioned it in the 12 week u/s gender post. After looking it up, apparently it's based on the side of the uterus the placenta is implanted. Left side = girl and right side = boy. I also read that the transvaginal u/s would be the one to read and it would not need to be flipped, it would be left is left, right is right.
Anyone heard of this before or had it be right with their LO? I find it so interesting. It might be fun to keep track of it on here and see what the rate of correct outcomes is.
Re: Ramzi Theory?
Yup, I read the 1st u/s is the best since they're so tiny.
Ours is showing girl and it seemed right for my DS.
I just emailed my friend who is an ultrasound tech and got this back from her. "I looked it up and I was getting the impression it's talking about implantation of the placenta. Which I see them all over the place for both genders. It's truly just wherever the placenta attaches. So probably like most other theories... it's just that!"
looks like we'll all just have to be patient!
I figured but it was just such a fun concept. :-) That's awesome that you have a friend who is an u/s tech.
I can wait, 9 weeks is nothing. haha I just like all the guessing. Thanks for sharing!
I only heard of it afer someone posted on here but had so many questions after the fact. I think you need to ask your u/s tech while they are doing it b/c they could flip the image and you wouldn't know. I looked at both my u/s pics from 6 weeks and 7 w 3 d but just wasn't sure enough to make a guess at all!
Yep. She actually works at my Dr's office too! She told me I could come in at 14 weeks and we could just check then to see if she could see gender yet.
Lucky girl!
I have heard of it and I told my OB about it at my 7 week ultrasound. He played along and my placental is fundal anterior and mostly left. So if its true, this is a girl. I started googling around some more about the physicians involved in the study and Dr. Ramzi might be a quack, not sure. The journal article was not actually published on anything except obgyn.net. Not exactly peer-reviewed.
Fun to play though!
How wonderful.