told me its a boy at 12 weeks

[Aranah]

ttcno2, I would definately be waiting till the 18-20week scan to bank on anything.

At my 12 week scan, I asked if I could know the flavour. I went to an OBs that had the best equippment in Australia, and was one of the original pioneers of NT scanning in Australia - and even then, they said no way would they say the sex. She said any sonographer guessing the sex can only do a 50/50 guess, that she reckoned it was very silly of sonographers telling the sex because the sexual organs look almost identical still then, there is no scrotum. She told me she had heard of heaps of cases where people were told wrong at 12 weeks.

I had a 16 week scan, and they said boy!, but still only a tentative guess as it was early, but I was shown the boy bit she thought looked like a boy.

I had a 20 week scan, and it is definately (as definate as you can be from a scan) is a boy, I could see the bits myself and three people reviewing the scan at separate times from each other all said boy. I was 100% sure I was having a girl, even bought girl things. I had this 'feeling' with my other kids when I was pg with them and was right, so I was sure I was right with this one. But I wasn't, and it sure was a surprise, but a nice one. For me, I already have one of each, so it's easy for me to say that.

I think you should definately prepare yourself for the fact that you might be having a boy, but I wouldn't be banking anything on that scan if it were me. If you do a search on the net, it says that 16 weeks is really the earliest that a sonographer should be able to tell, because the sexual organs look identical till then.