i was talking to a friend over the weekend about possibly finding out the gender of the baby at the nuchal translucency screening i am having on monday 30th. she said that yes they can identify the gender of the baby but are legally bound not to tell you until 20weeks because of the risk of mothers aborting their babies if not pleased with the gender. i was totally shocked at this because we live in Australia and i would never have thought that people living in this country would have such a ideas. i know that possiblity would never even cross my mind.