dentist aggggghh and sex scans

[nadinetd]

hi ladies
i know the above have no relevance to each other just incase u think i have lost the plot, i went to the dentist today i am 6 weeks pg and had to have root cannel treatment the dentist said nothing he did would harm baby i hope this is the case, i didnt have xrays do ant of u know if this is correct?
also i know im getting ahead of myself here but do u think it is best to know the sex or wait this is my 1st baby x

wait

thanks joolstoo
i think iw ould lik eto wait but i am very impatient! i want to decorate the nursery too and get the pram for the correct sex etc

You can trust your dentist. The baby will be absolutely fine. Sympathies to you though because root canal work is horrible!

Personally I wouldnt want to know if I was having a boy or a girl. Makes the labour a bit more 'fun' if you get a suprise at the end of it I think

thats what my sister said, he has 3 girls and said after all the pain and waitings it nice to have a surpise! maybe i will wait .....then again its so tempting x

Re the sex of the baby. We found out with dd1 and again this time round (am carrying dd2) we decided on names once we knew so knowing the gender and also having a name to use instead of 'it' helped us to bond and for the whole thing to seem more real. It was as much of a surprise at 20 weeks as it would have been at 40!

Saying that though, scans can still be wrong and we've hedged our bets both times, are prepared for dd2 to turn out to be ds1 and still bought neutral clothes etc

nadine....your dentist would not do anythhing that would endanger your baby...that is why they always ask before any treatment if you are pregnant..don;t worry...

re the sex...i found out with both of mine and am so glad i did. i had DS , then DD..was lovely to know ahead of time, choose a name, bond with the baby and refer to the baby as he /she . i think enough of labour, birth & the arrival of a newborn is complicated enough...why not get as much inoformation as you can in advance!

Wait........ It's soo much fun, everyone guessing all the way through. I think the suprise makes the whole labour thing worth it. Friends say that it is far more exciting too waiting for that phone call. "Well, what is it" beside the obvious baby bit. Not quite the same when everyone knows.

On a more serious note, I worry that bonding, ie naming and knowing the sex before birth could be more difficult if something awful happens. IYKWIM

We thought the sonographer had let it slip by accident at my 32 week scan, (routine in France)that we were having a boy second time. We already had a ds and my pg'cy's were identicle. I was so convinced that it was a boy, that I told everyone, decorated the nursery, washed all ds's baby clothes and took blue baby grows to the hospital. When SHE yes SHE arrived, we were in utter shock. It took me days to believe it I kept checking in her nappy and took ages to stop calling her him and he.

I found out that I was expecting a girl, which I really liked, as we decided on a name, and when I was pushing her out - everyone in the room was saying "come on Lola" ... plus, I really felt like I could bond with her better, it was lovely, being abole to buy things especially for a little grl.

Next time round though I may leave it... and just find out after all that hard work!

We found out the sex but have kept it a secret from everyone else. Although I did slip up the other day, so 2 girls know at work know now aswell, but I'm 32 weeks today so I've done well to keep it quiet so long. We were too excited to wait. I agree with the bonding thing aswell.

I liked knowing, it seemed to make DS seem more real as an individual rather than just as a particularly wriggly extension of me. It was also a help as we had great difficulty agreeing on boys' names and it focused our minds on the fact that we did need to come up with one...