Ultrasound when you don't want to know gender

[Arimeh]

We haven't found out for this one, and they asked us if we wanted to know, and we said nope, and DH and I watched the whole thing, and could not even tell that they went near that area!!! They breezed over it so quickly, that we didn't know what we were looking at.

So I wouldn't worry too much - unless you are a sonographer

[feeb]

I have not known either time (both time it has been written down and put in sealed envelope to open after birth)

Just tell them that you dont want to know, some places offer info some will only offer if you ask. I have had scans as normal and no issue with seeing what it was.

This one person who did ultrasound I didnt ask to write it down, long story but at last appt ob did a scan and write it down for me and told me to turn away but that was 24 weeks.

[Glamourcide]

I was told at DD1's 20-wk scan that the difference between boys and girls was determined by a certain number of 'stripes' (I won't spoil it for you by telling you how many!). So when we went to DD2's 20-wk scan, DH and I knew what to look for and we both saw the stripes that indicated a girl, and we were like, 'Bugger, we wanted a boy' lol. The u/s tech was astounded that we knew what we were on about, until we explained what we'd been told.

If you don't want to know, let the u/s know as soon as possible, and don't worry about accidentally seeing bits and bobs (or lack thereof) - it's all in the stripes!

[Laranna]

Tell the sonographer as soon as you walk in the door that you don't want to know! We didn't find out with DS and I had to have a few extra scans due to placenta praevia so every time I walked in, I said "I don't want to know the sex!" Never had a problem with any of the sonographers letting it slip and I could never even work it out looking at the screen. We even got a DVD of the 20 week scan and I still couldn't tell.

[MantaRay]

We didn't find out either time and nothing gave it away. I have heard of it happening - a kindy mum had a sonographer accidently put an XY on the screen - so she knew she was having a boy. I think this would be rare though, and it wasn't a routine scan, it was an emergency one so it would be different.

[tk1999]

We didn't want to know and didn't find out through any of our scans. We went into the scans telling them that we definitely did NOT want to know and both DP and I admitted that when we walked out of our 18-20 week scan we had both been trying to sneak peeks during the scan but both couldn't see anything (we knew about the stripes too LOL), the sonographer did the check over the genital either very discreetly or DP and I are simply not very good at picking up any details LOL

Our Obs on the other hand would always ask at each appointment what I was having and I would answer "I don't know" and he would say "ok, best get off that part of the screen then" LOL he never gave it away though did have me wondering why he had to keep asking LOL

[didispunk]

A really good friend of mine is a Pediatrician and she said with her 2 she looked and looked and couldn't even tell.AND SHE IS A DOCTOR So unless you are a sonographer or have some special powers! its very very very hard to tell. I looked for both and could have never seen a thing.. 3D maybe different.