To buy stuff on a 70% chance our baby is a girl!?

[Crisscrosscranky]

Had scan this morning (12+5). Sonographer asked if we'd like to know gender of the baby and that it looked as though baby was a girl. She seemed preeeeety certain. I've attached a couple of the photos but I don't understand the nub theory or what bit your supposed to look at so they mean nothing to me in that respect!

Saw midwife straight after and she seemed surprised sonographer would have said anything at all at such an early scan & that it was only a 70% chance she completely pissed on my chips.

Everything in my being wants to be sensible and wait to buy anything but it wouldn't be unreasonable to buy one pretty sleepsuit would it...?!

she said it was only a 40 per cent chance though but it defenetly looked like a boy.

Eh? So a 60% chance of a girl?

so she yells me im having ds5 she said it was only a 40 per cent chance though but it defenetly looked like a boy.

Surely if she thinks there's a 40% chance it's a boy, she realises it's more likely to be a girl...

Too early to tell, but I would guess girl from the nub angle, not confident enough to buy things!!

Well you know what I mean, maybe just my girls then?! Def pretty and petite even though one was over 9lb..my boys have s always looked like boys and girls like girls..I'm not gonna lie they would have looked awful in a sleep suit covered in diggers or cars.

The girls that is.

Not 40 per cent boy they said they have about a 40 per cent chance of sexing the baby at 12 weeks its that she was quite sure that it was a boy

How on earth would a girl baby look "awful" in a babygro with diggers or cars on it? That makes no sense at all

I'm not gonna lie they would have looked awful in a sleep suit covered in diggers or cars.

That's one of the stupidest things I've ever read on here.

Having worked in a scanning clinic I would say at 12 weeks it's unlikely to say what sex baby is and highly unprofessional of the sonographer to guess which I'm afraid they have done.

The genitalia of baby only show around 16 weeks many sonographers will echo this.

The sonographer definitely shouldn't of said

No i don't know what you mean.

My baby looked like a girl in a pink babygro with butterflies, a boy in a blue babygro with cars or diggers. Because we are conditioned to think that.

Try it. Take your baby girl out in blue, or your boy out in pink. Observe how others change their treatment and ipinions on the child.

Nobody will recoil and ask why you've put that pretty girl in horrible boys clothes. They will chat to you about how big and strong he is, how he'll give you trouble as a toddler but will be easier than a girl as a teen.

That a girl would look "awful" in a blue babygro says everything about you- you think the baby looks awful because of your acceptance of stereotypes.

She'd look awful doing one of those hideous "male" jobs too i suppose? Better stick to being a secretary where she can wear a pretty pink dress and not have to think too hard.

I put my DD in all sorts of babygros, cars, dogs, pink, blue. Still cute.

I despair, the future is bleak indeed with all this gender normativity. Pretty pink..,god sake...and those baby pinks are so hideous.

I would just buy neutral anyway. hth

(I know I'm not the first on here to say that)

Out of interest Op, why did she piss on your chips about the 30% chance it being a boy? Do you not want a boy?

I'd be interested to know how old the DCs are who were thought to be one sex on a scan and turned out to be another. Scanning quality has improved massively since DC1 and DC4. DC1 was a grainy 12 and 20 week scan. DC4 had individual finger bones counted and four chambers of the heart seen on the 12 week scan. Accuracy of sex prediction at 12 weeks at our local scanning place was claimed at above 80% with 99% accuracy at 20 week scan. Very skilled, sonographers these days.

Well each to their own! But no matter how much boyish stuff you dress a girl in 90 percent of the time they grow up loving all things girly and vice versa. Andrade for this catching the gay bollocks how many gay men to you see in unicorn t shirts and pink sparkly boob tubes? Bar the drag acts no fucker!

no matter how much boyish stuff you dress a girl in 90 percent of the time they grow up loving all things girly and vice versa

Jesus wept. Yes and no wonder as long as people like you are saying they look ridiculous in babygros with cars on

The Rock wore a unicorn shirt, just saying.

But a blue t shirt 😂😂

Saying that df looks fab in a pink t shirt he has

But no matter how much boyish stuff you dress a girl in 90 percent of the time they grow up loving all things girly and vice versa.

No, they don't. They grow up liking gendered stuff because everywhere they go and everything they do is based on "you're a girl, therefore you like x, y and z". At school, tv, friends, parents, relatives.

They believe they like that stuff, because if they don't, does that make them a boy? They are discovering their identity and learn to fit their role.

I didn't grow up liking girly things, despite my mothers best attempts.

There are studies that this starts before birth, now we have scans that show sex.

I was told by the consultant who did my scan at 13 weeks that he was 85% sure I was having a girl. Changed his mind at 20 weeks, DS3 now 6 months old.

Save your money and wait a few more weeks - or just buy neutral if you really can't wait.

"But no matter how much boyish stuff you dress a girl in 90 percent of the time they grow up loving all things girly and vice versa."

That is neither here nor there when what was actually said was that's baby girl would look "awful" in a babygro with diggers or cars on it. What kind of a horrible person thinks like that??

DD wore sleepsuits covered in cars and pirates because that's what we had left from DS, and DH was made redundant when she was 4 weeks old. She was warm and comfy and looked fine.

You'd be hard pressed to get her into a dress or anything pink now though. And she hates princesses and Frozen. It must have been the sleep suits.

Lemony, I think OP meant that the mw 'pissed on her chips' by stating that it was too early to know the gender for sure? As in 'I thought I knew the sex but I don't and am going to have to wait even longer to find out' ? That's what I took it to mean, not that there was a particular preference. But I could be wrong!

In Japan I think pink is 'for' boys and blue for girls, and it used to be like that here once upon a time. Which goes to show they are just colours we have put a gender stereotype to. When I was pregnant I didn't find out the sex, but I bought lots of dinosaur things (because dinosaurs are awesome). My auntie phoned my mum ranting that actually I did know the sex and knew I was having a boy which was why I had bought that stuff. My mum replied 'um, I think Monkey just likes dinosaurs.' (incidentally I did have a boy, but that's by the by!) I was so cross as it was like saying I couldn't possibly put a girl in a dinosaur baby grow (with feet and everything!) as girls can't like dinosaurs. I get cross now when trying to find clothes for ds, they all have tractors or monsters on them! John Lewis are great though for baby grows in greens, yellows, whites etc just with cute animals on, nothing over the top. And sometimes I do pick him up a nice pair of leggings

But op, if you want to buy it then please do as I'm sure your girl (or boy!) would look lovely in it. But I agree with other posters maybe wait until you are a bit further along. Although it is exciting

Dinosaurs are for everyone. If my bellybean is a girl, she will be wearing dinosaurs. And rockets.