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01-12-2013 at 5:37 PM
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A/S question - determining gender

We had our a/s done recently and baby looked good.  We are team green but during the a/s I saw 3 distinct straight white lines and am now wondering if my husband will be very outnumbered come May!  The lines were very solid and very straight - would they be this distinct in the a/s or is there anything in the scan that would be 3 lines like that?  I know I will not know for sure one way or another until May but am just wondering others thoughts who are having a girl or know what else that could have been.  Thanks!

 ETA:  At the end the tech asked us for sure if we did not want to find out as nothing is documented.  I made the comment that we did not and she was the only one that knew.  She said she didn't even know as she doesn't look in that area unless there is a reason to.  I thought from my last one they said they always looked in that area, regardless. 


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01-12-2013 at 5:40 PM
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Were you looking at that area? Bones will also show up as straight white lines, so it could've been ribs, fingers...

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01-12-2013 at 5:51 PM
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Why do you care if you're "team green"?

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01-12-2013 at 5:56 PM
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dande2129:
Why do you care if you're "team green"?

this. don't ask this question and be team green


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01-12-2013 at 6:04 PM
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RussianMommy:

dande2129:
Why do you care if you're "team green"?

this. don't ask this question and be team green

I consider myself "team green" because I will not know for sure until the baby is born, regardless of what is said in this post.  I had such a strong gut feeling this baby was a boy so this just has me right back to 50/50!  I had no intentions of finding out but now that I saw that I am curious.  During my last a/s the tech had us turn our heads when she was in that area but this one never did that once.  And honestly, whatever anybody says here doesn't determine the gender since they didn't read the scan.  I was just surprised by how much those 3 white lines stood out in the scan and now I am curious as to what that was. 


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01-12-2013 at 6:25 PM
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if you're curious, then go find out, otherwise, we can't tell you what you saw.

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01-12-2013 at 6:35 PM
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I totally understand your curiosity!  We are team green as well and of course curious to know, though more excited for the surprise at the end!  Who knows what you saw but I'm sure if the tech said she didn't look at the genitals then she probably didn't.  :)  We were surprised to find that our tech also didn't look down there after others had said that theirs had, despite being team green.

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01-12-2013 at 6:57 PM
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It could be I'd have to see a picture but I'm no expert. I understand your curiosity. I think its just natural. ;

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01-12-2013 at 7:33 PM
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I'm having a little girl and we saw the 3 disticnt lines as proof.

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01-12-2013 at 7:43 PM
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Thanks everybody!  I really don't want to find out - it will be a surprise either way since I am not a u/s tech and have no idea what I am looking at.  I was just surprised to see that because of how much it stood out and then surprised when she said she didn't know the sex since she didn't look.  I thought they always looked there based on other posts I have seen here and my last a/s.  I was also hoping that there was something else that may look similar to the female gender determination.  

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01-12-2013 at 9:26 PM
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Now I'm curious.. I would have thought they look in that area regardless, it as an anatomy scan, and its part of the anatomy... Although, its not like they are going to measure the baby's penis or anything lol.


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01-12-2013 at 10:44 PM
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I have a girl, and I remember seeing three distinct white lines, but like PP said, those lines that you saw could be anything... bones, ribs... if she said that she didn't look in that area, then I'm going to go with the idea that those three lines have nothing to do with the sex of your baby. 

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01-12-2013 at 11:33 PM
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I think being Team Green makes you MORE curious about what you're having, not less curious.  There are many reasons to not find out that have nothing to do with not WANTING to find out.  Just and FYI to the PP.

OP, I've never really studied ultrasound images to see what the differences would look like, but I'd take her word that if she didn't look there it's probably not.  But it does seem really weird that she wouldn't look there at all.


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01-12-2013 at 11:34 PM
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RussianMommy:

dande2129:
Why do you care if you're "team green"?

this. don't ask this question and be team green

and if you can't say something nice, productive, or contribute to the conversation, why bother commenting? 


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01-13-2013 at 6:10 AM
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I can understand your curiosity too. And ditto what a PP said about being Team Green making you more curious. It seems that way for me. Like when you're told you can't have something and that just makes you want it more, lol.

I'm very confused as to why the tech didn't look in that area. Our tech did. He said he had to measure and check the kidneys, and for those minutes baby was practically sitting on the camera. So I'm pretty sure I know what ours is, especially since the tech slipped and referred to the baby by a specific gender later during the scan.

But I still consider myself "team green" because I didn't specifically ask what the sex is. I wasn't told the words "It's a ____", so there's still an air of mystery to it. I feel unless you have someone specifically tell you "It's a ___" then you're Team green.


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01-13-2013 at 7:41 AM
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I think that you could have been seeing the cord too. If i remember right, because its a 3 vessel cord it appears as 3 white lines, and that is something that they actually look at during the scan.  I can see why it would make you more curious though!

 
01-13-2013 at 2:01 PM
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I don't know how you team green people stand it, I'd be wayyy too curious to wait it out for so long.

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01-14-2013 at 10:04 AM
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I had a three lined boy. With his legs partially shut, and everything squished it made three line, I even have a pic of it. The three lines were futher down though, not as high as a girls three lines. When he spreads he is all boy though haha! If you are team green I would still say you are in the line up for a possible boy. With you not being a tech, the tech not telling you, three lines still being possible a boy it could go either way.

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