I want to know what this baby is!!!

[Ginger]

at my 20week u/s with ds2 they couldn't see properly due to position so they made an appointment for me to come back exactly a week later (free of charge) so we could find out the gender...maybe speak to your m/w

[Laranna]

Aw at least now you'll have a nice surprise at the end And I'm sure if it is a boy, you'll get inundated with presents that are all blue when he is born.

[alioops]

Most of the babies I know that have been shy, have been girls. So if it was me I would be assuming it is another girl and calling it a girls name, but make sure you have a week's worth of boy things ready to go. If you don't use them then you can have them set aside for baby shower gifts. Can DH use the washing machine? Leave the tags on and if bubs comes out a boy (which would be a cool surprise) he can wash them while bubs is in white or hospital clothes.

[Cricket]

Thanks ladies. I know the surprise will be nice - I'm just not really a "surprise" kind of person. Too much of a control freak maybe.....
Alioops - I wonder how many "modest" babies turned out to be girls. That's what my friends have said too - that this one must be a girl as well. Maybe I'll start another thread and see if I can get some idea of how often it was a girl when the U/S tech said they couldn't tell.
I'll go sort through my baby box and see how many days worth of outfits I've got for a boy, if need be. And maybe I'll resign myself to plain white swaddling blankets. I could always dye them or trim them with pink or blue afterwards, I guess. (Do you have Aden and Anais in Australia? They are sort of new here - muslin swaddling blankets, really nice and soft, with the cutest prints on them! They say they are Australian, but I think that's just because the makers originally came from Aus. The blankets are made in the US, I think.)
Anyways, all that aside, thanks again for the sympathies, and I'll go start a thread asking about ultrasounds.

[~Trish~]

Aww, how annoying Cricket! If I hadn't found out what I was having I would have exploded by now LOL! I hate surprises too and loved finding out the gender with each of my pregnancies. I don't think I would have coped at all if I hadn't have found out So I take my hat off to you for not imploding LOL!

I guess you have lots of girly stuff already so if it's a girl you will be all set. If it's a boy, well, I'm sure you will be inundated with blue presents and won't need to buy too much. And hold off on buying the swaddling blanket until bub is here, I'm sure you can get by for a couple of weeks without one and then you'll have the fun of choosing an actual colour

[Inertia]

Its a Baby!

Ok, so not helpful. I understand how you feel. It can be a pain not knowing what colour to buy, or name to call them.. and everyone else says "it" and that drives me nuts.

Wish there was a way for you to tell. But yeah, as Ali said.. my shy bubs have all been girls.

[chicken egg]

My gf wants to find out but I am quite happy to wait. It is our first so the whole surprise thing is still a novelty. Probably if we were having a second or third etc we would find out.