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Confusion about finding out gender, please help!!

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FiFTM · 26/02/2019 10:16

Hi all,
I have a bit of a dilemma! I had a growth scan yesterday, and the doctor doing it said something along the lines of "you're having a boy?" Or something similar. We hadn't found out the gender so I just said "oh I don't know.." but it sounded like he was saying it as fact, although now I'm a bit confused. I told my husband that I thought the doc had told me the sex and asked if he wanted to know now too or leave it as a surprise. He said to tell him but I know he's a bit disappointed now. BUT I was looking at the scan measurement details today and up in the corner it says sex as female, it was on the two earlier ones and I never saw!! Im wondering if this a default thing that is entered when you don't find out or if in fact we're having a girl and not a boy??? I've put a pic in of what I'm talking about. If it is, I'm thinking of not telling my husband so it's a surprise for him at the end of labour?? What do you reckon?

Confusion about finding out gender, please help!!

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Rikalaily · 26/02/2019 10:23

That is refering to your sex, not the baby. If they add babys sex to the scan they add it in text onto the actual ultrasound picture, usually with an arrow pointing at the genitals.

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FiFTM · 26/02/2019 10:25

Aw damn it! I thought that might be the case but then I thought it was weird they would put my gender on it cos it's an antenatal scan so you would assume the mother would be female... Thanks for letting me know!!

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Butteredghost · 26/02/2019 10:36

As for why they have filled in your sex when it would seem obvious, that part is a template that is filled in for every patient, no matter which type of scan they have.

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FiFTM · 26/02/2019 12:45

I suppose so! I'm almost hoping they got it wrong or I picked the doctor up wrong and it turns out to be a girl, so when the baby comes out it will be a shock for my husband! Not that I wouldn't be delighted with a boy, I just feel that it's put a dampener on it for him. Though I would have felt guilty not telling him anything, like lying, and I know if eventually blurt out in the future that I'd known and that I'd just kept it secret :(