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to be doubtful of the sex of our baby?

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Elderfleurs · 03/08/2018 11:57

Had a scan at 16 weeks due to concerns about the baby. We were having NIPT so it was a private scan as they don't do NIPT on the NHS. She kindly allowed us to know the sex of our baby and told us it was a boy. Showed us the boy bits and said it's absolutely a boy, that she's not allowed to say it is 100% but it was there, clear as day! I could see all of the bits quite clearly and definitely looks like a penis and testes to me!

I've heard of people getting it wrong, and being told the wrong sex. We are sticking to gender neutral stuff mainly anyway however DP is over the moon he's getting a boy (he has two girls already) and I'm just nervous it's wrong!

Any personal experience of this?

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niketrainersarecomfy · 03/08/2018 12:59

Boy bits are hard to get wrong. They're usually quite obvious!

ReservoirDogs · 03/08/2018 13:04

Girl prediction can be wrong if baby has decided to tuck his bits away.

Perhaps just manage his expectations a little bit in case cord and swollen girl bits managed to present!

Good luck either way with having a healthy baby

LaPufalina · 03/08/2018 13:06

My boss was told they were having a second DS a couple of years ago and it was a girl! Not sure what the accuracy rate is Smile

ToeToToe · 03/08/2018 13:07

I mean we are staying away from the 'daddies little soldier' and 'mammas little princess' stuff.

You should stay away from all that crap anyway Grin

It's very, very unlikely to be wrong. There are rare stories of mistakes - but if they've actually seen the bits on screen - then it's a boy.

BigLass9 · 03/08/2018 13:07

All 3 of my boys could be seen clearly on the scan. Unless the baby is crossing legs then it is pretty accurate!!!

UnderMajorDomoMinor · 03/08/2018 13:09

They can’t say 100% just because some numbnut would try to sue if it were wrong.

If she’s saying ‘it’s a boy, here’s his willy’ I don’t think you’ve got much to worry about.

Smile
Elderfleurs · 03/08/2018 13:15

@ToeToToe oh we are! I can't stand any of that nonsense...

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ladydickisathingapparently · 03/08/2018 13:22

I’ve had four boys. The second one we weren’t allowed to be told but let’s just say the evidence was there clear as day. And no, it wasn’t the cord Smile

WellThisIsShit · 03/08/2018 13:44

We had a private scan at 13+6 weeks as the hospital messed up and didn’t do a booking in appointment until 16 weeks so we would have missed the nuchal measurements etc.

We didn’t even discuss whether we wanted to know the sex as we didn’t think it was possible at such an early stage, but it was very, very clear that he was a boy!

The technician asked us on the spot, and stbxh was super excited to find out so we did, and I was glad to know, as I was convinced I was having a girl.

Strangely the sonographer was a lot less certain at the hospital 20week scan, but to be honest, the equipment was so aged and different from the private scan, I’m surprised she could see anything at all.

Sooooo, I’d be 95% convinced but leave a little bit of uncertainty just in case. There’s so much about childbirth that has a dollop of uncertainty, risk, and, on the positive side, magic (!) about it, no matter how much we try and tie it all down and make it human-controlled!

When I had ds I felt it was things like this that added that kind of ‘miracle factor’ for me! He was a boy as expected, but twice the size he was supposed to be (not to mention suddenly discovered to be breach and back to back at 40weeks), and blue eyed and bright red haired, which was completely bonkers and a wonderful surprise :)

Mind you, I was completely high on oxytocin for weeks after meeting ds, the best drug I ever had Grin... the morphine did nothing compared!

This was after me being terribly sensible and dull about the whole thing, as I fully expected to be freaked out and mildly disturbed by my new born and I’d planned to ‘fake it til I made it’ to get through the first few months until it turned into a properly cute little baby that wasn’t so scarily fragile and freaky new looking.

Soooo, I wasn’t expecting the whole blast of love and bonding that happened. Knocked me sideways. I thought I had had a perfectly beautiful baby and felt sooo lucky and proud he was clearly so completely amazingly perfect. I was transfixed by him that first night I couldn’t sleep because I just wanted to look at him. In reality he was a big bruiser of a new born with lots of lumps and bumps and scratches from the birth, and a lopsided head! He could have been a boy or a girl or possibly a baby goat and I’d have felt the same. Hee hee! I think nature was amusing themselves by doing that to me :)

But the point is, it’s probably right as long as you keep a little bit of an open mind just in case. And you’ll find a whole load of other wonderful surprises as you see this little whole person born with a personality already there.

It’s good if it’s giving your dp a way of bonding with the baby, as men can feel it’s all a bit theoretical before the birth, as they can’t feel the baby growing and changing like we can.

Good luck Flowers

Witchend · 03/08/2018 13:49

I was told that it's more often wrong saying boy than girl, I've known two wrong that way round and one the other way-but they'd said they weren't certain as well.

Frazzled2207 · 03/08/2018 17:45

Boy bits are very difficult to get wrong. We saw them very clearly with a scan with ds2 and I just can't imagine him suddenly being a girl after what I saw.
However I imagine the chance of a girl actually being a boy is somewhat higher.

AlphaBravo · 03/08/2018 17:58

The NIPT tells you if there is male DNA detected. If none then then 99.9% a girl.

AlphaBravo · 03/08/2018 18:02

Just pay £30 for another private gender scan at a clinic. They can show you in 3D.

Rachie1986 · 03/08/2018 18:03

See I'm the sort of person who would obsessively worry about them ring wrong, which is why I had a surprise last time and am again this time. People say you're so patient and they couldn't not find out, but I'd be worse off if I did find out as I'd continually think about the small chance it was wrong!

SoyDora · 03/08/2018 18:03

Just pay £30 for another private gender scan at a clinic

They’re £89 in my area.

MrSpock · 03/08/2018 19:14

Where are scans thirty quid?! They’re £120 (twins) here!

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