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.
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