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2 Cycles of Femara, Ovidrel, & Progesterone= BFP #3 DS born 5/17/16 TTC #2 March 2017 (initially med free) BFP #4 8/14/17 *natural cycle* EDD= 4/25/18, MC @5-6w D&C 9/22/17 BFP #5 12/29/17 w/ Femara/Ovidrel/Progesterone/Synthroid, EDD= 9/11/18 found out 1/18 ITS di/di TWINS!!! DS and DD born 8/21/18
AYFKM?! If you don't believe the person who's profession is interpreting these images, why the hell would you believe a bunch of Internet strangers?! All my eyerolls. Every single one.
Let me know in 18w who was right. Oh wait, I don't care.
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Trust whatever the person who determines sex of babies on a daily basis said. I don't understand when people take what a professional said, bring it to the internet and ask random untrained strangers to tell them if the trained professional is right. I'm sorry if you wanted a boy, but if the tech says girl, you're making a little girl in there.
What do you think? Everyone says this baby is a girl but I'm not convinced, especially because of this picture!
Don't listen to the haters (or the ultrasound tech). I'm totally sure your child is a boy. I'd suggest a green and yellow nursery and you should name him Jaxxon! Congrats!
What do you think? Everyone says this baby is a girl but I'm not convinced, especially because of this picture!
Don't listen to the haters (or the ultrasound tech). I'm totally sure your child is a boy. I'd suggest a green and yellow nursery and you should name him Jaxxon! Congrats!
I'm sure you meant Jaxxyon. The Y is critical to proper spelling.
Thanks for the legit laughs, ladies! No one is doubting any medical professional here, but I am so thankful someone else sees a panda besides me! I've always wanted a panda! Not thrilled on the name Jaxxyon though. Any other suggestions?
Thanks for the legit laughs, ladies! No one is doubting any medical professional here, but I am so thankful someone else sees a panda besides me! I've always wanted a panda! Not thrilled on the name Jaxxyon though. Any other suggestions?
So you give February moms some snark for giving you similar replies but not here?
Thanks for the legit laughs, ladies! No one is doubting any medical professional here, but I am so thankful someone else sees a panda besides me! I've always wanted a panda! Not thrilled on the name Jaxxyon though. Any other suggestions?
So you give February moms some snark for giving you similar replies but not here?
I find this quite humorous, really. All the sarcastic, rude comments. I just can't help but play along and giggle at how sad this world is when we can't support and humor another mom with a simple, meant-to-be fun question Because I don't post in here all the time, I'm not "welcome" in these boards. I don't owe anyone an explanation as to why I asked, for fun, what people thought they saw in this ultrasound. I have been a member of the bump for 10 years, so what? I don't post in the boards because people are always so downright mean and sarcastic. So, if everyone wants to be oh-so-funny, I'm not allowed to play along? No fair...boo hoo.
I was hoping someone saw a dragon, or better yet, a dinosaur. I've always wanted a dinosaur.
While I understand you were attempting to go for the comical, humorous side of the topic, anyone asking "what am I having?!?" Doesn't go well. Even if they're wanting to have fun with it.
Now, if your picture was one of those photoshopped with an actual panda in it, then nobody would be getting annoyed.
I just think you all need to learn to have fun with things. Why is this such an issue?! It was a simple "looks like a girl to me!" or "definitely a boy" answer! I never got an opinion from a medical professional as far as gender goes, so nothing to second guess. I'm actually 30+ weeks right now, so this picture isn't even "recent." I'm just having fun with my pregnancy and enjoying the guessing game that makes having a baby FUN! Rather than taking all the ridiculous comments to heart, I'm laughing - - definitely not what I expected from this post but whatever works!
I'm not an ultrasound tech, so I wouldn't know what a boy or a girl would look like on an ultrasound. And if you're 30+ weeks, I'm guessing you chose not to find out, so why would you bother a bunch of Internet strangers to answer a question you don't really want to know the real answer to?
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I just think you all need to learn to have fun with things. Why is this such an issue?! It was a simple "looks like a girl to me!" or "definitely a boy" answer! I never got an opinion from a medical professional as far as gender goes, so nothing to second guess. I'm actually 30+ weeks right now, so this picture isn't even "recent." I'm just having fun with my pregnancy and enjoying the guessing game that makes having a baby FUN! Rather than taking all the ridiculous comments to heart, I'm laughing - - definitely not what I expected from this post but whatever works!
I'm having fun with my pregnancy too. But my idea of fun doesn't include asking internet strangers to guess if my child will have a penis or vagina. You literally just did the Internet equivalent to walking up to a random group of people, showing them your ultrasound picture, and asking them if they think your child will be male or female.
I just think you all need to learn to have fun with things. Why is this such an issue?! It was a simple "looks like a girl to me!" or "definitely a boy" answer! I never got an opinion from a medical professional as far as gender goes, so nothing to second guess. I'm actually 30+ weeks right now, so this picture isn't even "recent." I'm just having fun with my pregnancy and enjoying the guessing game that makes having a baby FUN! Rather than taking all the ridiculous comments to heart, I'm laughing - - definitely not what I expected from this post but whatever works!
I just think you all need to learn to have fun with things. Why is this such an issue?! It was a simple "looks like a girl to me!" or "definitely a boy" answer! I never got an opinion from a medical professional as far as gender goes, so nothing to second guess. I'm actually 30+ weeks right now, so this picture isn't even "recent." I'm just having fun with my pregnancy and enjoying the guessing game that makes having a baby FUN! Rather than taking all the ridiculous comments to heart, I'm laughing - - definitely not what I expected from this post but whatever works!
Play this with your family and friends and show THEM your child's crotch shot. Do I think this "game" is fun?
We have fun. But like you've hopefully read in other threads started by other women doing the same exact thing, it's not fun for us. I really try hard to respect other people's feelings and opinions, but when there's been numerous threads like this and you clearly see it DOESNT GO OVER WELL, wouldn't you take a second to rethink your decision to post it?
We all hope your pregnancy goes smoothly and your child comes out healthy, but at this point, nobody thinks it's fun or cute to guess the sex.
I just think you all need to learn to have fun with things. Why is this such an issue?! It was a simple "looks like a girl to me!" or "definitely a boy" answer! I never got an opinion from a medical professional as far as gender goes, so nothing to second guess. I'm actually 30+ weeks right now, so this picture isn't even "recent." I'm just having fun with my pregnancy and enjoying the guessing game that makes having a baby FUN! Rather than taking all the ridiculous comments to heart, I'm laughing - - definitely not what I expected from this post but whatever works!
I can answer this.
So as a long standing member, I am sure you've seen a lot of changes to this board over time. So perhaps things worked differently when you first joined or at least before I came along. But essentially, on this board, a post like this is considered clutter.
Let's say there are five hundred registered users using the 2T board ("using" meaning doing searches, reading, lurking regularly or actively posting). I've no idea if that's accurate but it's a round number so let's say. You are ONE of those 500 on a board that is meant for discussing issues, comparing experiences and basically learning to be good moms through a highly social and emperical approach.
So imagine how well this board would meet its intended purpose if ALL 500 moms created this post or a post like this. Just imagine if we were all making this sort of post. Then a mother comes along wanting to ask a serious and very important question about her ultrasound, things like anencephaly, echogenic cardiac focus (which is even discouraged because there are a zillion threads about it already) or that sort of thing. How on earth is HER post going to get the attention it NEEDS when it is deeply nestled in a sea of 500 "Guess the sex of my baby" posts?
It's not.
In fact, it has been CLEARLY stated that these sorts of posts are inappropriate because they flood. And I'm sorry but what frustrates me is how people just kind of don't give a damn. And then, when they're told that their post could have maybe been made somewhere more appropriate FOR THE THOUSANDTH TIME, they get that false, aggressive humility that pedantic people get when their pride has been bruised but they want to come off as "The Bigger Person" anyway. And say asinine things like 'Well I am going to take this graciously because i have a sense of humour and am very ZEN like that, unlike the rest of this board, a bunch of selfish sea hags who don't find anything funny." But that's ok because, what, you're big enough to forgive us? Bless. Double bless because you GOT HUMOROUS RESPONSES. They just weren't kowtowing to you. So to call these women "humorless" because they used humor to deal with their frustration with your post is not fooling anybody.
Meanwhile, some of us on another similar board are all weeping over a thread (maybe you've seen it or ones like it?) where after a fight of several months, a fight requiring a strength that I can't even begin to imagine, a mother has just lost her beautiful preemie.
I don't know.. maybe it's because i just became a mother a few days ago and that thread tore my heart out, but maybe take your "sense of humour" (that word people use when they did something inappropriate but can't woman up enough to admit it, apologize and move on) and put it somewhere where there are not frightened moms-to-be, grieving mothers and people needing scientific or emperical information on a question that is actually important.
Thebump needs a social board, legit. A place where people can just go in, shoot the breeze, ask ultrasound finding questions about sex and just generally dick around. Is there something like that? I don't explore outside my neighbourhood much so i don't know.
That you made an ill-advised post is human. That you then responded to people's annoyance with pedantic false graciousness drizzled with a sense of total entitlement really annoyed me.
@groovylocks - are you talking about the December bmb? I just read that.. It's horrifying it really puts in perspective what we should be doing here. Supporting each other.. Not playing guess the sex of my baby. I'm sure the mother that lost her child would be happy to take home her baby- boy or girl. And then we have repeated post of post of this ridiculousness where women seem to care more about how their child will pee than if they will be healthy....
@groovylocks - are you talking about the December bmb? I just read that.. It's horrifying it really puts in perspective what we should be doing here. Supporting each other.. Not playing guess the sex of my baby. I'm sure the mother that lost her child would be happy to take home her baby- boy or girl. And then we have repeated post of post of this ridiculousness where women seem to care more about how their child will pee than if they will be healthy....
That's the one. I noticed it had been ressurected and there were thousands of views and lots of new replies so i thought "ruh roh, somebody said something asinine and this wonderful celebratory thread has turned into a gif party" and i went in all ready with a bunch of gifs and all i could see were condolences. And my heart broke and i cried. I have yet to say anything because I am still trying to find the right words to say. My daughter came early, only by two weeks, but she was undersized for her gestational age and is the size of a large preemie. And she is perfect and mighty and healthy. And I know if i lost her, I would never recover. If she died, I'd die. And that thread broke my heart into a million pieces. And then i see people getting heifey about nothing, like LITERALLY NOTHING, and, i don't know.. i just get bent out of shape about it.
I realize it's fun for team green moms to play "guess the private parts" - it is! We weren't team green but did a lot of guessing games before our 19 week ultrasound. But i didn't do them here - that is not the purpose of this board and i felt that was fairly clearly stated.
@groovylocks - are you talking about the December bmb? I just read that.. It's horrifying it really puts in perspective what we should be doing here. Supporting each other.. Not playing guess the sex of my baby. I'm sure the mother that lost her child would be happy to take home her baby- boy or girl. And then we have repeated post of post of this ridiculousness where women seem to care more about how their child will pee than if they will be healthy....
That's the one. I noticed it had been ressurected and there were thousands of views and lots of new replies so i thought "ruh roh, somebody said something asinine and this wonderful celebratory thread has turned into a gif party" and i went in all ready with a bunch of gifs and all i could see were condolences. And my heart broke and i cried. I have yet to say anything because I am still trying to find the right words to say. My daughter came early, only by two weeks, but she was undersized for her gestational age and is the size of a large preemie. And she is perfect and mighty and healthy. And I know if i lost her, I would never recover. If she died, I'd die. And that thread broke my heart into a million pieces. And then i see people getting heifey about nothing, like LITERALLY NOTHING, and, i don't know.. i just get bent out of shape about it.
I realize it's fun for team green moms to play "guess the private parts" - it is! We weren't team green but did a lot of guessing games before our 19 week ultrasound. But i didn't do them here - that is not the purpose of this board and i felt that was fairly clearly stated.
**** qbf
I hear ya.. There are so many bigger issues than getting bent out of shape over your child's genitals. And honestly, I'm so over people not scrolling and lurking before posting. It boggles my mind how many of these posts we see weekly, and how users can't figure out by reading past posts that this isn't something we consider "fun".
I'm glad to hear that your daughter is healthy and happy! At the end of the day that's all that matters.
If you don't like my post, don't reply to it. No matter how stupid you think it is, it's still your opinion and if you have nothing nice to say...SURPRISE...don't say it. You have no idea what I have been through in the past with my pregnancies so what you are telling me is that I'm not allowed to post anything light hearted because someone else's heart is breaking. How do you know I never went through anything similar? Maybe this is my rainbow baby after a stillbirth. You don't know, so don't jump down my throat about any kind of post you consider "clutter." Again, don't like it, move on. I am a mom, too, a pregnant mom. You want to talk about how we should be supporting each other yet you've all said nothing but rude things here. I don't read the boards daily, I have no idea what is posted on here before me. I have no idea who else posts about what gender their baby is, but I wouldn't see a big deal if anyone else posted anything similar. I have been a member for 10 years, so what. That doesn't mean I've paid any attention to the community boards all these years. I only have a 3 year old and #2 due in February. No one got bent out of shape over genitals. Simple questions, simple answers. Don't want to reply because you think this post is stupid, clutter, not appropriate? Don't comment. Simple.as.that.
Re: 22 week ultrasound - boy or girl? Opinions?
TTC #2 March 2017 (initially med free)
BFP #4 8/14/17 *natural cycle* EDD= 4/25/18, MC @5-6w D&C 9/22/17
BFP #5 12/29/17 w/ Femara/Ovidrel/Progesterone/Synthroid, EDD= 9/11/18 found out 1/18 ITS di/di TWINS!!!
DS and DD born 8/21/18
Let me know in 18w who was right. Oh wait, I don't care.
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Autism mama!
Now, if your picture was one of those photoshopped with an actual panda in it, then nobody would be getting annoyed.
Do I think this "game" is fun?
That gif is so my cat. Lol
Me: 31
DH: 29, SA - Great
Married: June 12,2011
TTC #1: 1/2014
Diagnosis: Hypothalamic Amenorrhea
Treatment: Clomid: 50mg, 100mg, 150mg - not successful and not monitored
Menopur 75ml (upped to 112.5ml), Ovidrel, & IUI IUI #1 8/31/2015
9/15/2015: BFP HCG - 400, 9/17/2015: HCG - 827, 9/21/2015 - HCG 3,327!We all hope your pregnancy goes smoothly and your child comes out healthy, but at this point, nobody thinks it's fun or cute to guess the sex.
I can answer this.
So as a long standing member, I am sure you've seen a lot of changes to this board over time. So perhaps things worked differently when you first joined or at least before I came along. But essentially, on this board, a post like this is considered clutter.
Let's say there are five hundred registered users using the 2T board ("using" meaning doing searches, reading, lurking regularly or actively posting). I've no idea if that's accurate but it's a round number so let's say. You are ONE of those 500 on a board that is meant for discussing issues, comparing experiences and basically learning to be good moms through a highly social and emperical approach.
So imagine how well this board would meet its intended purpose if ALL 500 moms created this post or a post like this. Just imagine if we were all making this sort of post. Then a mother comes along wanting to ask a serious and very important question about her ultrasound, things like anencephaly, echogenic cardiac focus (which is even discouraged because there are a zillion threads about it already) or that sort of thing. How on earth is HER post going to get the attention it NEEDS when it is deeply nestled in a sea of 500 "Guess the sex of my baby" posts?
It's not.
In fact, it has been CLEARLY stated that these sorts of posts are inappropriate because they flood. And I'm sorry but what frustrates me is how people just kind of don't give a damn. And then, when they're told that their post could have maybe been made somewhere more appropriate FOR THE THOUSANDTH TIME, they get that false, aggressive humility that pedantic people get when their pride has been bruised but they want to come off as "The Bigger Person" anyway. And say asinine things like 'Well I am going to take this graciously because i have a sense of humour and am very ZEN like that, unlike the rest of this board, a bunch of selfish sea hags who don't find anything funny." But that's ok because, what, you're big enough to forgive us? Bless. Double bless because you GOT HUMOROUS RESPONSES. They just weren't kowtowing to you. So to call these women "humorless" because they used humor to deal with their frustration with your post is not fooling anybody.
Meanwhile, some of us on another similar board are all weeping over a thread (maybe you've seen it or ones like it?) where after a fight of several months, a fight requiring a strength that I can't even begin to imagine, a mother has just lost her beautiful preemie.
I don't know.. maybe it's because i just became a mother a few days ago and that thread tore my heart out, but maybe take your "sense of humour" (that word people use when they did something inappropriate but can't woman up enough to admit it, apologize and move on) and put it somewhere where there are not frightened moms-to-be, grieving mothers and people needing scientific or emperical information on a question that is actually important.
Thebump needs a social board, legit. A place where people can just go in, shoot the breeze, ask ultrasound finding questions about sex and just generally dick around. Is there something like that? I don't explore outside my neighbourhood much so i don't know.
That you made an ill-advised post is human. That you then responded to people's annoyance with pedantic false graciousness drizzled with a sense of total entitlement really annoyed me.
That's the one. I noticed it had been ressurected and there were thousands of views and lots of new replies so i thought "ruh roh, somebody said something asinine and this wonderful celebratory thread has turned into a gif party" and i went in all ready with a bunch of gifs and all i could see were condolences. And my heart broke and i cried. I have yet to say anything because I am still trying to find the right words to say. My daughter came early, only by two weeks, but she was undersized for her gestational age and is the size of a large preemie. And she is perfect and mighty and healthy. And I know if i lost her, I would never recover. If she died, I'd die. And that thread broke my heart into a million pieces. And then i see people getting heifey about nothing, like LITERALLY NOTHING, and, i don't know.. i just get bent out of shape about it.
I realize it's fun for team green moms to play "guess the private parts" - it is! We weren't team green but did a lot of guessing games before our 19 week ultrasound. But i didn't do them here - that is not the purpose of this board and i felt that was fairly clearly stated.
That's the one. I noticed it had been ressurected and there were thousands of views and lots of new replies so i thought "ruh roh, somebody said something asinine and this wonderful celebratory thread has turned into a gif party" and i went in all ready with a bunch of gifs and all i could see were condolences. And my heart broke and i cried. I have yet to say anything because I am still trying to find the right words to say. My daughter came early, only by two weeks, but she was undersized for her gestational age and is the size of a large preemie. And she is perfect and mighty and healthy. And I know if i lost her, I would never recover. If she died, I'd die. And that thread broke my heart into a million pieces. And then i see people getting heifey about nothing, like LITERALLY NOTHING, and, i don't know.. i just get bent out of shape about it.
I realize it's fun for team green moms to play "guess the private parts" - it is! We weren't team green but did a lot of guessing games before our 19 week ultrasound. But i didn't do them here - that is not the purpose of this board and i felt that was fairly clearly stated.
**** qbf
I hear ya.. There are so many bigger issues than getting bent out of shape over your child's genitals. And honestly, I'm so over people not scrolling and lurking before posting. It boggles my mind how many of these posts we see weekly, and how users can't figure out by reading past posts that this isn't something we consider "fun".
I'm glad to hear that your daughter is healthy and happy! At the end of the day that's all that matters.