Question about finding out sex of baby (or not!) at 20 week scan.

[Olive]

i know!! made me think she was a he!!! she must have checked at some stage, i believe like kellie said that they probably might have too look

[Junglemum]

Yeah i agree, often sonographers are so skilled they only need a flash () to work it out. There were 2 sonographers at my 20 wk scan, one was a trainee. We didn't want to know the sex and i was watching the screen like a hawk. I didn't see anything, i had a girl and they both knew from whatever brief glimpse they had!

I thought, as you did, that b/c they knew from such a quick glimpse i was having a boy, but no, a little girl!

[Jac]

You are all correct, they are very skilled at looking at scans of babies so 'inexperienced me' just obviously missed it. I WON'T study the DVD........... I should have just found out !!!!

[meow]

I didn't want to know either but they do check the groin and I thought I saw 'boy bits'... guess I was right! Pack the DVD away if you don't want to know!

[Indadhanu]

Just wanted to say we wanted to know, and the ladt doing the scan went over the arrea so quick and said girl that I keep thinking "how could she have known so quickly" but then a glimpse is all they need to see (isn't it 3 lines for a girl and a diddle for a boy?).

[Tobily]

They do have to look just to check that what's supposed to be there, is there. Just because they were quick though doesn't mean it's a boy. They look at these scans all day long so they get pretty adept at it.
I remember with DS as soon as she started the scan the sonographer said "would you like to know the sex" and we said yes, she ran the transducer down there and looked for about 2 seconds before telling us he was a boy.
Even if you watch the dvd it's very unlikely you will identify it especially if she only had a quick look. Even when it's glaringly obvious most people need it pointed out before they can make out what they're looking at...then it's kind of "Oh Yeah!! I can see it now!!".

[PinkPalace]

Jac

YOu know this sounded EXACTLY like what happened to us with dd#1.

The dr said so do you want to know what the sex is.. and we said NO.

ANd he said " Well i better move the scanner then as it is very obvious!!!"

We were a little miffed by it all and so assumed it was a boy for the next 21 weeks. Even had boys names picked out, told people it was a boy.... and didnt even ask at the birth what gender it was until the midwife said.... "do you want to know what you had" about 10 minutes later. And we said oh yeah ok.

ANd she was a girl!!!!

What a surprise that was

We thought for sure if it was obvious it had to be a boy but ..... you cant take what they say to mean that obviously in our experience.