Ultrasound been wrong about sex of baby?

[Curly]

Oh no now I'm worried! Was told today that it's a 90% chance of a girl, she had her legs crossed and the cord between her legs but the sonographer said she was pretty sure she saw girl bits...

I was quite happy to go ahead and assume girl, my ob did a casual scan in his office at 8 weeks and picked DS as a boy. His machine wasn't very high tech so (until I read this thread) I was quite happy to go with the odds, figuring if there was a willy there it would have been seen!

[Georgi]

AMANDA.. A guy my DH works with was told it was a boy, at 2 or 3 ultra sounds. It came out a girl... They were stoked, as they already had a 2yr old boy. So yep, it does happen.

[Mum0809]

Wow. I can't believe how many people have been told the wrong sex. I just took their word for it when they told us DS was a boy. I didn't think they got it wrong very often, seems I was wrong.

[ultrasound83]

Hi,
Just a quick post from a qualified Sonographer in Australia.

Firstly, no Sonographer should ever guarentee you the gender of your baby, mistakes have and will continue to be made. However, most ultrasound machines these days are very clear and it is usually quite obvious to the Sonographer.

Secondly, the gender of your baby can only be seen in one ultrasound plane (bottom up!). Most sonographers won't reveal the gender of the baby until your Morphology scan (ie: 19wks), as the genitals are not fully developed until the 17th week.

And finally, PLEASE focus on having a HEALTHY child and stop being pre-occupied with the gender of your baby. The 19 week morphology scan is designed to assess just that... the MORPHOLOGY of the baby! It is a DIAGNOSTIC scan. If you want to know the gender, there are non-medical/non-referral practices that offer that service.

Parents of a sick or morphologically or neurogically abnormal child would give anything to have a healthy child of EITHER gender. Some people are unable to have a child. Please keep things in perspective. Whatever the gender is now, it wont change, and you will find out soon enough.

Congratulations on your pregnancy. And please keep things in perspective and enjoy your precious gift.