Gender ultrasound help!

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  meggyme member

  April 2020

  elexisharris said:

  Just a little skeptical about my ultrasound to see the gender of my baby. It was done at 22 weeks and she rushed, she looked for 2 minutes maybe and the babies legs are crossed.. ❤️ Any thoughts is it a girl
  

  
  

  *image of presumed baby genitals removed*

  I don’t even recognize that picture as being of a baby, so I’m gonna side with the medical professional on this one.

  DD1: June '16 DD2: March ‘19 :::: Married since 2011 :::: USN Wife ::::

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  harpseal135 member

  April 2020

  What am I even seeing.  You know a trained professional ultrasound tech can take less than 2 minutes to see the sex of your kid, it doesn't take a 15 minute observation.  If they said girl, then I would trust girl.  If you were at the anatomy scan the sexx of the kid is the LAST of their worries.  They are more worried about the brain, liver, are leg lengths symmetrical,  are there 4 valves in the heart that are functioning properly, does the spine look normal, that's where they spend all their time.  They take a quick glimpse of the genital region and move on. 

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  coldlife2 member

  April 2020 edited April 2020

  Agreed, please trust the medical professional. I thought my cervix was my baby's head at mine. I have no idea what I'm looking at in your photos. 
  
  I will disagree with @harpseal135, though. We have never found out boy or girl, but they still spend time looking at the genitals. Or, I suppose to be technical about it, they look at the bladder and urinary tract. That is one of the things they check along with heart, limbs, brain, spine, etc. to see if the baby is developing normally.
  
  Regardless, I would assume they saw enough to tell you reliably, and two minutes does not sound rushed to me. With each of our three a/s, they have never had us look away for anywhere close to two minutes. Maybe 45 seconds, if that? It doesn't take very long to see what they need to see. 
  
  ETA: in re-reading, I'm not really disagreeing with harp seal. Just noting that that is a part of baby's development to be checked. 

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