Ultrasound when you don't want to know gender

[FabFiona]

We did want to know the gender of this one, so told the sonographer when we walked in.

At the point when she knew from looking at the screen she tried to explain to us what she was seeing that made it a boy. To be honest, unless she explained it to me I had no idea what I was looking at. Those bits aren't that obvious to a lay person so I don't think that you will pick it up inadvertently.

[Nai]

We didn't want to know with either of ours and we were asked at the start of the ultrasound and we said that we didn't want to know. When it came time for the sonographer to check the genital area she told us to turn our heads and close our eyes. It was being recorded too so she turned off the recording at that point as well to make extra sure.

[Janie]

We really didn't want to know, but had all the usual scans. I was so petrified that they would 'accidentally' tell us at the 20 week scan, or that we would somehow see for ourselves, but neither happened . There is NO WAY either of us would have had a clue, and the sonographer didn't ask us if we wanted to know. I thought that maybe I would feel curious during the scan, but I totally forgot about the gender part!!! There is SO much to see at the 20 week scan, we were totally entranced, and our sonographer is great, with always explaining everything he's doing in great detail. So it totally went out of my head, until hours later .

[The[cookie]Doctor]

Well our DS had all his bits on show

That said she had already looked over him and she knew before she pointed out the area. We wouldn't have known what we were looking at otherwise.

[Heaven]

We didn't want to know either. But I looked at the screen the whole time and never saw anything. Maybe if it was a boy I might have been able to tell lol, but most of the time I had NFI what they were looking at.

[Janie]

Clearly our DS was a boy but we looked at the screen the whole time and saw NADA. We really didn't know what we were looking at

[NaeNae]

With Niki we wanted to know and the sonographer was a right PITA and didn't want to tell us.
This time round we weren't too fussed but because we had soooo many US I figured we'd see something or nothing sooner or later. I knew from around the 16 week mark though.

A friend of mine decided they weren't going to find out but on the day of their scan the sonographer just put the thing on her belly and bubs bits were on full display - just the way bub was lying at the time. He quickly removed the probe thingy and appologised but it was a little late - seems their little boy wanted them to know !!

Just tell them you don't want to know , if you don't know what to look for you'll be none the wiser anyway.

Nae x

[HotI]

Just tell them you don't want to know , if you don't know what to look for you'll be none the wiser anyway.

Thanks for all the responses. I'm not a sonographer or ultrasound reader, but do know about the stripes. Hopefully, the little one will just keep themself decent and not be too obvious. I will be going in saying 'i don't want to know.. i don't want to know...' so the scanner person knows our intentions.

Thanks again all,

Kate

[~Raven~]

I found with all 4 of mine that they didn't reveal the information until we asked but they had already had a look. They are able to tell with just a glimpse usually.