Anyone else think this is weird - or just me?

[Arimeh]

I was just chatting to a friend on facebook and she told me she was pregnant - excellent - awesome woohoo - I know she's been wanting to be pregnant for ages, and since she is 9 years older than me (and I'm no spring chicken) I'm really thrilled that she is with someone that she loves and seems happy and is going to have a baby!!

She told me it was a girl and what her name was going to be - and I'm like, even more awesome, girls are cool. Then she said she was due in July. Umm. Doesn't that like make you 4 weeks or something? I know when Miss M was due in July I got my BFP at 4 weeks at around the 5th of November or something?

I thought the sex organs didn't actually develop until the 7th or 8th week? Or am I wrong? Is there a test out there that I don't know about that can tell you at 4 weeks what the sex is?
I'm quite confused about all this, cos I only ever found out with DS what he was and that wasn't until I was 20 weeks with him!!! (36 weeks with DD at my OB's office).

Am I in the dark or what?

[Tinks]

I didn't htink you could tell that early either. Perhaps she did one of those gender tests. Are they available yet?

[Manhattan]

Yay for your friend, how exciting

Any chance she was using IVF and PGD??? I know they can pick the female embyros that way, but you can only do it for genetic reasons, not gender selection.

[Lolli]

Ummm.. I *think* there is that saliva test thing you can buy, that came out not long ago... not sure how early you can use it though.

But that all does sound a bit... odd. Hmmm

[danniellabella]

Um, if she's due in July then I don't know how she can already know it's a girl. Unless she's been doing those home gender predictors which aren't all that accurate. I had a friend who did several of them and they all came up as having a boy...she went to her 20 week scan and was told she's having a girl.
I don't think the sex organs are visable until about 8-12 weeks and I certainly don't think they're visable on ultrasound until 16-20 weeks.

[Visitor7]

Maybe she's just really hoping for a girl

But congrats to your friend!

[kawazuki]

at 6 weeks i think you can pee in a cup and find out the gender bgut its only 90% accurate. its that new gender test POAS thing.

but very odd...

[~Kim~]

Any chance she was using IVF and PGD??? I know they can pick the female embyros that way, but you can only do it for genetic reasons, not gender selection.

I was going to say that too.....

[melbel]

The only way she could know for absolute sure it is a girl that early on is if she had IVF/PGD. Although they cannot select for sex they would by default know the sex of the embryo implanted as it is one of the chromosomes tested in the PGD process......

[briggsy's girl]

she has possibly gone through IVF/PGD for gender selection if either herself or her partner have a genetic issue that is carried on the Y chromosome... it's not guaranteed (they advise scans and CVS/Amnio to confirm) but that is about the only way they could "know" at this stage

[Arimeh]

Nah she didn't have IVF or anything.... well I'm glad I'm not the only one its puzzling to!!! I knew about the gender predictor things but thought that they were only accurate from 8 weeks?

Bahhh I dunno...

[briggsy's girl]

yeah i thought they were about 8 weeks before they worked. and they don't really carry that much accuracy! tanya (mod) tried one on her pg with her youngest DD - told her she was having a boy.... hmmmm

[Pretty Butterfly]

If she is due in July, then is seriously only JUST pregnant.... I'm due 18th June, and only 5w 4 days!!!!

Strange..... maybe she "timed" for a girl, and thinks it worked???

[FabFiona]

Maybe she typed in the date wrong? Odd, as I don't see how you could know gender that early.

[LionsandBears]

I hat to say it, but is it possible she's making it up? If she's been trying for so long and she's so hopeful? esp as she knows you're pg. I don't know, but unless it's PGD or she's psychic, she's not going to know the sex yet and for a July baby, she would only have just tested positive. Doing the maths, for her to have a July baby, assuming it's due 1 July and her cycle is 28 days (big assumption), her LMP would be 24 Sept 09. Making another assumption of a 14 day follicular phase O day would be 7 October. So today she'd be 12DPO.

So she could have tested early or had an early ovulation or whatever. Or maybe she meant June or something. I don't want to disparage your friend, but she might be dreaming it up.

I hope it goes well for her.

[Arimeh]

Hmm Tash I dunno - I do know that other times she has been pregnant (she has had a few miscarriages when I first met her) she said she knew the very second of conception - so she is probably very in tune with her body. I always knew when I was pregnant at around 12DPO without needing to do a test, I could just feel it, but not from the minute of conception!

Maybe she just really wants a girl? I dunno - I understand that desire, having gone through it myself.....

[briggsy's girl]

maybe she didn't dtd at O time - was a few days before, so is assuming it's a girl. i "knew" DD was a girl well before any scan could confirm it for me - i just knew in my heart.

she hasn't done something dumb and written the date the way the americans do, so she's due 07/01/10 but written it 01/07/10 like they do?

[Arimeh]

Nah its definitely July - she said it a few times, and when I asked how many weeks she was she confirmed that she was only really early into the pregnancy - so it must be REALLY early!!!