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?

[Visitor7]

Maybe she's just really hoping for a girl

But congrats to your friend!

[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.

[~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.....

[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

[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...

[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......

[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

[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

[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.