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waterloobee
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Ultrasound Tech won't tell us gender..BUT..
waterloobee
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Ok ladies, need your help interpreting this one.
We went to my 20wk ultrasound today all excites to learn the gender, but the tech declined to tell us. She said my OB will tell us at the next appointment. But it's in 3 weeks! So long to wait..
So anyways DH and I went home and looked at our images saved on a disc, and I noticed that the image files were named LASTNAMEXX00, LASTNAMEXX02, etc.
Does that mean we might be having a girl?! Anybody with a son who has images named XY? Ahhhh dying to know.
We went to my 20wk ultrasound today all excites to learn the gender, but the tech declined to tell us. She said my OB will tell us at the next appointment. But it's in 3 weeks! So long to wait..
So anyways DH and I went home and looked at our images saved on a disc, and I noticed that the image files were named LASTNAMEXX00, LASTNAMEXX02, etc.
Does that mean we might be having a girl?! Anybody with a son who has images named XY? Ahhhh dying to know.
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Re: Ultrasound Tech won't tell us gender..BUT..
2. If you really can't wait the 3 weeks call your doctor and ask.
3. LASTNAMEXX is just how it's coded, it has nothing to do with the sex of the baby.
4. Did they not give you copies of your pictures? I find that strange.
OP - call your doctor's office tomorrow, I can't imagine why a nurse wouldn't tell you. And I find it odd the ultrasound tech can't tell you boy or girl; i get not being able to tell you the medical stuff.
And to anyone suggesting OP have patience, you have got to be kidding me. She went to an appointment where historically the sex is revealed and for some crazy reason the tech wouldn't tell her. I would have been pissed.
The ENTIRE POINT of the ANATOMY SCAN is to check on the ANATOMY of the baby and to make sure it is HEALTHY.
It is not, and will never be, to see the SEX. That's an added bonus.
And if you're going to be pissed because someone didn't tell you what you wanted to know you're going to have a hell of a hard time being a parent.
And if you want to be really damn picky, ultrasounds weren't even used on pregnant women until the late 1950's and weren't common practice in the US until the mid 1970's.
And even today it is equally split between parents want to know and parents not wanting to know.
So you can just stop with all this "historically" shit.
This deserves to be quoted again. And why do we keep correcting sex vs. gender? Because there are a few of us left around here that understand how hurtful misusing those words can be. It doesn't matter that we know what she meant, she used incorrect wording. Things won't change if we all sit here excusing such mistakes.
Get over yourselves.
I believe that a more accurate term is "gender identity" since it relates to the identifying of one's gender. It would remove confusion, and respect those whose genitals & mental/emotional identity don't match.
The tech asked us if we wanted to know and when we said yes, she had me on my side , put the wand on my belly and low and behold, we saw a penis lol was very hard to miss lol.
Hope that you get to find out soon shouldnt be too much longer !!
Power trip much @BumpAdmin?
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The sex vs. gender issue is much, much more than grammar. But thank you so much for your thoughts!
This, this, so much this. I saw a post earlier where this was pointed out innocently as information to the OP. She said something along the lines of "Wow, I never knew that. Thanks for the information, I hope I didn't offend anyone". That is how you should respond.
This, this, so much this. I saw a post earlier where this was pointed out innocently as information to the OP. She said something along the lines of "Wow, I never knew that. Thanks for the information, I hope I didn't offend anyone". That is how you should respond.
I am a very, open, educated, and accepting person. Of course, I always knew (kind of) the difference in that sex is physical, gender is socially constructed. I am accepting and open to people who identify with the opposite gender of their sex. I get transgendered identification. But I was never really aware of the offensiveness of using gender as a synonym for sex. I learned that from TB (back in the old days). I am thankful for that education. I no longer make that mistake. It's the same as not using other words that are offensive. We all know the argument that theyre just words and everyone knew what the person meant doesn't defend the use of some words. I think it is the same for sex vs gender. Now I won't judge or criticize, I will just point it out and educate. As was done for me.