Posting scan pictures of genitals on the Pregnancy board

[HetzelNatur]

There seems to have been a recent influx of threads with scan photos, asking if people want to have a look and guess the sex of the baby using 'nub theory' or some other obscure criteria.

Is it just me who finds this rather distasteful? I'd rather not show loads of strangers my unborn child's bits, let alone stare at someone else's.

AIBU?

Nub theory explained:

www.onetoonemidwives.org/information/nub-theory

I had my DD's "bits" pointed out to me and still couldn't tell what they were.

Nor did I spot a penis during any of my DS's scans (we were gender unknown with him!)

As long as these pic's are limited to the pregnancy section I couldn't care less.

Sorry if it's the wrong term. I didn't know what else to call them tbh.

What does a netmums username look like?

Missing the point

Sorry Flo, I was just being facetious. It's an old joke on here, there's a bit of a rivalry situation.

Thank you Hetz I thought I was missing out on something.
I learn something new on here every day

Not wanting people to see the 'inside of my uterus' has made me laugh. I am going to go have a good look at my old scan photos to see how the ol' gal photographed last time round.

I was very disappointed when I had an ultrasound on my kidneys when diagnosed with pre-eclampsia that I couldn't have any pictures. They were really pretty.

Didn't get any pictures of my gallbladder either before it was removed :(

YABU, if it offends you don't look.

God almighty. You can't even have a bit of privacy while you're still in the womb these days. WTF is wrong with people??

Are 12 week foetuses particularly worried about privacy, do you think?

That argument isn't very strong - a 2yo child running around naked in the garden/street has no concept of privacy either, it doesn't mean there cannot be an issue around it.

The pregnancy board is one huge pile of irritating tosh.

Am I pregnant?...how the fuck do we know, stop describing your fucking fluids here and piss on a stick.
Here's my 12 week scan, is it a boy or a girl?....yes, it is a boy or a girl, now sod off and wait until someone who actually knows can tell you which.
OMG I accidentally sniffed alcohol, am I doomed? ......Go away and read something that isn't the sodding internet, you muppets.

YABU, although I never posted my ultrasound, I can under by excited parents do so. I don't think much if the nub or skull theories, but guessing is half the fun.

The response are just as bad in those threads - if I read another lecture about how it's 'sex not gender', by the Supreme Politically Correct Brigade......

An ultrasound scan constitutes private medical data about a foetus. I think people should think very carefully before plastering them all over the internet.

There's a more nebulous philosophical point here too. Marketers mine and sell data about us (including from out discussion posts and social media posts). Can the developing child not have a few precious months of respite before all that crap starts?

YABU and I think a lot of people here are taking it a bit too seriously. It's all a bit of fun and part of the excitement! If you don't like it then hide the pregnancy board, you already tried to cause trouble there on someone's thread, didn't get enough of a reaction so made a TAAT here. This forum is anonymous anyway so I don't see how a scan pic is ruining baby's/fetus' privacy.

Oh and btw skull theory and nub theory were both right for me

madre generally I agree, though the Posifrickintivity threads (pregnant after miscarriage) have been a great source of support to me.

The 3D scans terrify me. I'm having some as part of a clinical study (worldwide research looking at reasons for prematurity and/or restricted growth) and I've asked not to be shown the screen when they do those!

Cracks me up how seriously some people take all of this. Bet it's laugh a minute round your houses

People who post these scan pics are just excited about having a baby! These pics get put in a drawer and are forgotten about once baby arrives...and all scan photos look the same anyway! It's not like the baby can be identified.

An ultrasound scan constitutes private medical data about a foetus

What tosh!

What is the data contained in a scan photo?
What is private about that data?
How can an unborn foetus possess any "rights" to data privacy when they are unborn? The mother is the patient, not the foetus.

you already tried to cause trouble there on someone's thread, didn't get enough of a reaction so made a TAAT here.

With respect, bullshit. I didn't 'try to cause trouble' anywhere. I commented on a thread and there was plenty of reaction, but I wanted to address the point in a wider context. That alright with you?

If not feel free to report.

Hetz it's no big deal, but I'm just making the point, why would you click on a thread with a title like - 'scan pic nub theory guesses' if you know you hate that stuff? Surely only to cause trouble.

An ultrasound scan constitutes private medical data about a foetus. I think people should think very carefully before plastering them all over the internet.

Nope. Private medical information about the contents of a womans uterus, yes. A foetus has no personhood and no right to privacy. The owner of the uterus can share her innards if she so wishes.

Well, Snow, it occurred to me that I was likely offending all and sundry over there, so I thought I'd better go and start my own generic thread about it.

In hindsight I probably shouldn't have commented on that thread at all as it may have upset folks. I am sorry about that.

And I did want to make a point. Not cause trouble, though that was perhaps inevitable, but to make a point. It was the wrong place to do so.

The pregnancy board is bonkers, which is why I have it hidden...