20 week ultrasound - sonographer slips out the sex!

[Trillian]

I had that happen with my first pg. I had a scan at 27wks because he'd not moved for nearly 2 days and the Dr kept saying 'here is his arm/leg' etc and at the time I wondered if he said that because that's what he really was or if it was just a better alternative to saying 'it'. I always knew that he was a boy anyway and clung to that as some sort of sign LOL

[westy]

I have also had a sonographer refer to bubs at an early ultrasound as being a boy, but like a previous poster said they wouldnt have been able to tell so early into the pregnancy ....but she was correct in referring to bubs as a boy!

[Visitor7]

It's probably just a habit for the sonographer, instead of calling bub 'it'. To find out the gender, the sonographer has to actually look at that part of the body. It's not part of their routine checking, unless parents ask for it.

[Santosha]

I'm with the others... our sonographer said 'he' a couple of times. I totally missed it, but DH noticed and was left convinced we were having a boy. However, she is most undeniably a girl!

[AliBaby]

Different example but I do the same thing when I am refering to other peoples dogs. I have always had boy dogs so automatically say "oh he's so gorgeous" when I dont even know if its a boy or girl. Just comes out.

I would just take it as it could be either

[Ginger]

Yep we had the same thing happen with ds1. the sonographer said 'he' then kind of went 'eerrr, arrrr, ummmm' and then paused....very obvious stuff up.
and yes...'he' is a boy.

[Lisa]

Most of the ultrasound I have had, the technician has refered to them as either him or her. I have also found when discussing things about the baby, some midwives and Ob's have refered to the baby as he or her too.