I was told i was carrying a girl at 19 weeks...only to be then told it was in fact a boy at 21 weeks and again at 33 weeks....im praying it is still a boy!
I only know of 1 person who was told the wrong sex, she was told boy and it turned out to be a girl. Another girl i know was told by the sonographer that she was unable to determine sex, so went through her pregnancy not knowing.
Most sonographers won't tell you what it is 100% certain - cos there is always margin for error.
I know heaps of stories of babies coming out the other sex!!!
Most of the stories though - have been ones that they say are girls - turn out to be boys.. hardly ever the other way round - usually hard to miss a penis!!!
With DS's ultrasound you couldnt miss that he was a boy. VERY obvious. DD's first scan told us it was a girl.. i so couldnt see it so had a 2nd scan. They also said she was a girl and showed me but still kinda hard to see.. so yeh boys are usually easy to spot.. girls not so.
When I had my u/s with DD you could tell that there was a 'hamburger'..or 3 strips.
I had 2 u/s with youngest DS and was told at 19 weeks...maybe boy, maybe girl..more then likely girl, 23 week 4D confirmed GIRL and emergency 37 1/2 week u/s BOY!
I dont think anything is 100 % until you actually are holding your baby and its earth side to know the sex. You cant really say its a girl when your looking at a penis
My half sister was told the wrong sex both times. She was told girl with first baby, and had a boy. And was told a boy with the 2nd child and had a girl!!!!
I never knew the sex of my first 2 children, but I could tell there was SOMETHING there in the ultrasound film with my son's pregnancy. My sister agreed.
I had several ultrasounds with my daughter Laura (as she was breech) and asked every time to check.
If you're told at the 20 week scan or later that's usually pretty accurate. That said, much also depends on the skill of the person doing the scan and the equipment used. There can be vast differences between the equipment being used by a regular sonographer at a suburban radiology clinic, and that being used by a specialist at a private ultrasound clinic that routinely deals with high risk pregnancies (but also sees low risk women for morphology scans). I've had scans in both and the difference is quite marked.
When the sex is told earlier than 20 weeks or so, the margin of error is higher though many people are still told accurately.
We were told at 14 weeks that our DS was a girl. Luckily we didn't go and paint his room pink...I just didn't feel he was a girl and sure enough at his 20 week scan he most certainly was not
Last edited by Tobily; December 16th, 2008 at 08:02 PM.
They always knew straight away that mine were boys! But I know someone who was told the WHOLE time, throught 4 scans, that she was having a girl and she had a boy, who went home in pink to a pink room lol
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