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3rd Trimester
Correct Gender?
how sure are you that the ultrasound tech/doctor is right on the sex? I am just lately starting to doubt..what if I have this pink and out pops a baby boy! How accurate are they usually?
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Re: Correct Gender?
It will vary from baby to baby and from technician to technician. The ultrasound tech should be able to tell you how "sure" they are on the gender assessment. For me, I asked, and she told me she was 90% sure it was a girl at 19 weeks. I had another scan at 32 weeks and the same technician confirmed that the baby was still a girl. Having had two scans confirming the same thing, I'm pretty confident in her assessment....
But I know how you feel. With my first DD I only had one ultrasound, at 20 weeks, and was told it was a girl. But I always questioned it and had a fear that she'd come out with a penis! I think most people worry a bit about this... We all hear the stories - and I actually had a friend who was told it was a girl on two different occasions, and baby came out a boy. She spent the first few weeks genuinely grieving the loss of her girl because she was so set on it, and wasn't prepared at all for a boy. All is good now, of course, and she can't imagine it being any other way.... So I guess what I'm saying is that even in the worst case scenario, it still works out in the end.
Our tech informed us back at our A/S that she will NEVER give the gender if she is not 100% accurate.
So, when she told us girl .. then we got the MOTHER of all "money shots" .. there was no denying it!
I remember with my DD I Googled lots of u/s pics and compared them to mine of the girl parts. I was paranoid whether the tech was right and she was!
This time it was obvious in my 20 week u/s that my baby boy had a penis so I am not doubting it. I am also having a few more u/s though so I figure I can get it reconfirmed then if I want.
Haha, that is exactly what mine said, 20-something years! Plus, we had a few u/s after that and we confirmed at each one. If she comes out a boy, then he was a master at hiding his junk away.
DS #1 born 05/25/2012
BFP#2: 06/12/2013 ---- loss
DS #2 born 4/08/2014
BPF#4: 2/1/2016 --- 2/23/2016 suspected molar pregnancy--- 3/15/2016 D&E - diagnosis MM
BFP#5 - 9/22/2016
* formally bornmommy
Whenever a tech has told me they're sure - they've never been wrong for four babies.
For my first baby girl I had numerous ultrasounds due to complications and every tech told me that it was just their best guess. I didn't have enough amniotic fluid to get an accurate guess. I heard both girl and boy. The final guess was boy and the tech said that she was "pretty sure" but couldn't be certain. I went into labor thinking probably boy, but she was a girl.