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12-06-2012 at 6:21 PM
Cedawson62
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Gender Wrong?

On Novemeber 26th just one day shy of 19 weeks i had my gender ultra sounds. My second child is a little girl!! My mother was so excited she was in tears. My oldest is a boy so having a little girl is perfect.

My mother kept asking the tech if she was definatly sure it was a girl because after we got the picture she decided she wanted to cover her parts up lol. The tech said since i was so thin it would be hard to predict wrong. But just recently my fiance has been teasing me that when i go back for another ultra sound on december 26th to look at her heart im gonna be shocked to see that its a boy.

Has anyone else had there gender of their child told wrong? Or am i just being paranoid lol.

 
12-06-2012 at 6:33 PM
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It happens, obviously... but I've never been told wrong in all of my 5 pregnancies. I've always found out between 15-20 weeks and the tech has always been correct.

I've been told by 3 different techs during 3 different ultrasounds that LO6 is a girl and I don't doubt it one bit. She's pretty proud of her girly bits.. lol.


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12-06-2012 at 6:38 PM
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I was told girl at 16 weeks boy at 19 weeks comf again at 25 week that he is most deff. a boy. I was earlier though, and the pictures she printed off for me the lines looked further down than most other I googled. I was only semi-suprised when they said boy because like I said it just seemed a tad off, I think the legs squished everything into three lines, and when it was open there was a cord so they would do the blood flow detection and say it was the cord, but obviously there is other stuff going on :) I think you are probably ok at 19 weeks if your gut is telling you other wise there really is no harm in waiting till the next ultrasound to buy things, if the tech seemed confindent, then there is a really good probability she is right. You never really know until they are born I guess ;) ETA: I think I am a pretty thin person, my mistake was really in baby position and interpreting what they saw, so thin doesn't always mean they will get it right, though I have heard it is easier to read ultrasound that are before 20 weeks on a thinner person.

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12-06-2012 at 7:04 PM
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There is always a possibility that it could be wrong. My Mom was told I was a boy. It happens. U/S techs try their best, but they're human. The only time you can really be 100% sure is when they're born. 

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12-06-2012 at 11:36 PM
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A close friend of mine has 3 children.  Throughout the course of all 3 pregnancies, she was told each was going to be girls.  She now has 3 rambunctious boys in her house. 

Granted, I don't think it's as common to get it wrong now as it used to be, it does still happen.  


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12-06-2012 at 11:44 PM
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It happened with this pregnancy, but we were told super early. We were originally told we were having boy/girl twins, but it turns out they are boy/boy.

 
12-07-2012 at 12:08 AM
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I heard that if they get it wrong, 9 times out of 10, it is usually mistaking a boy for a girl, and not the other way around.
 
12-07-2012 at 4:25 AM
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My friend is super skinny and was told her kid was absolutely a boy.  She had her baby shower and then another ultrasound later in the pregnancy.  It was a girl.  She did a lot of exchanging :)

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12-07-2012 at 6:24 AM
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I had a friend that was told girl throughout her entire pregnancy until the day before she delivered, when she was told it was a boy. Talk about panick.

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12-07-2012 at 8:31 AM
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Because you're so thin? That doesn't really help predict the sex of the baby. I had my AS with DS at 23 weeks. I was also quite thin if that matters to the story. I was told with 100% certainty that it was a girl. It was the best "hamburger" shot she'd ever seen. This is a veteran tech, so not a recent grad. I didn't believe her because I was sure it was a boy. I had already told people it was a boy, that's how sure I was. Mistakes happen, but after 20 weeks, it is almost unheard of. Lucky me.

At 30 weeks, guess what? Another tech got the best "turtle" shot she'd ever seen. 

Chances are, it is a girl, but mistakes happen. When I was pregnant with dd, I made them "prove" it. I had several ultrasounds, and I made them tell me each time, lol. After the fifth tech told me it was a girl,I was confident. 


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12-07-2012 at 9:28 AM
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I was told at the ER at 18 weeks that LO2 was a girl, 4 days later at my a/s they said boy... I had an elective at 23 weeks and yep still a boy.   My half brother was said to be a girl, but he was 22 yrs ago so technology not as good.

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