everybody says its going to be girl and its doing my head in!!

[redbullandbump]

im 21 weeks today we had the 20 week scan last tuesady and we have to go back tomorrow as at the last scan on tuesady the baby was lying right under my belly button wich was putting shadows on the scan, their back is against my belly and they have their legs tucked up to their chest so we have to go back as they couldnt do all the measurements and as their legs were right up to their chest and crossed they couldnt tell the sex either.

But everyones telling me its a girl because
ive had morning sickness till 19 weeks and with ds it stopped at 12 weeks.

Im also carrying it all at the front unlike with ds it was ALL OVER!!

im very emotional all the time and cry at anything and i have very bad mood swings unlike with ds i never cried and wasnt very hormonal.

and im being so picky with food, the smell of somefoods really make me ill.

its really doing my head in everyone saying its a girl as i feel everyones going to feel disapointed if its a boy. Also the chance is small for a girl as dp has 4 step brothers and 1 step sister and his dad has 3 brothers so the chance of a girl is very slim.

What does everyone think?

they have a 50% chance of being right

I have had three girls - all pgs and all bumps and all sickness etc have been totally different

It's all a load of nonsense.

do YOU want a girl?

try having two girls and then getting pg again...the pressure to have a boy was immense. Was childishly pleased it was another girl just to shut everyone up

Redbullandbump,

I get so fed up of people who think they can just say "oh that's deffo a boy" or "that must be a girl" without even so much as an "IMO, that's a boy" or "my relative / friend was carrying like you and she had a girl".

I would be very tempted to give them a sarky comment like "oh, wow, didn't realise you had ultravision eyes!" or something like that.

Having said all of that, almost everyone thought I was having a boy, and at my scan, you could deffo see a willie. So who knows, but it is annoying the way everyone thinks they can just tell you like they're a medical expert!

It's the most annoying thing. It's 50/50 either way, how can people be so certain? If it's any consolation, I was convinced I was having a fourth girl with my fourth pregnancy and I was wrong. So, if I couldn't tell, how could anyone else?

Meant, "ultrasound eyes" of course

i was really annoyed with my BIl, single, childless geezer, after the birth of my dd said i knew it was a girl, and he hadnt actually seen me pregnant! He was so pleased with himself

When my sil was pg everyone, including her, my mil, whole family, was convinced she was having a boy, main reason being we have 3 girls already. I have to admit to feeling a bit pleased when she had a girl too. They were all quite shocked, they had been so certain. It's all so SILLY!

FWIW..i have a boy and a girl, was much much sicker with my boy..for 34 weeks !! stopped at 20 weeks with DD..both times we found out, first time we didn;t tell anyone, and we knew we were having a boy..everyone would look at me, 'yes, definitely a girl..can tell by the way you are carrying'.. it is just one of those things people like to think they know about , and give you their definitive views on,,

both my pregnancies..shape of the bump etc..were exactly the same
don;t worry...just smile and nod

or tell people you are hoping for a puppy !

redbull: my FIL announced mine was definitely a boy when I was 10 weeks pregnant, then actually went out and bought a blue babygro.

I felt... well... sort of violated, that he felt he could look inside my body and judge what was in there. Creepy man.

I have all the same symptoms as you (except I'm carrying all round), and mine is a boy.

Didn't mind either way, but it would have been nice to prove FIL wrong.

Hope when the hormones disperse I'm less petty than this .

I had this. Everyone was convinced tht I was having a boy. I even thought so myself in the end. Even people I didn't know would say "oh looks like a boy you have there", especially once I was overdue. Only two people thought differently: DH and DH's grandad.

My baby was a little girl. No one was disappointed at all though.

it is so thrushtrating though when they say it.

im really not bothered either way as long as they are healthy thats all that matters, but i do keepm on looking at ds and thinking of onther little clone of him running around!!

some of my moms friends havent even seen me since i got pregnant and when my goes on them about blargh blargh blargh i then have a phone call " soenso says its got to be a girl" i feel like screaming they havent even bloody seen me!!

When i was pg everyone said i was having a girl... bump at front, its high/low, not sick, very sick... and out popped my DS!!!

It's so annoying and i thought my mother would be upset as i think she wanted a girl, however i've never seen someone dote on a child quite like my mother does!

Ignore them and just enjoy being pregnant!

I had two totally different pregnancies... both with morning sickness although one much worse...I went off most foods with one, but none with the other... I carried pg no 1 hidden..didn't show till 8 1/2 months and I carried pg no 2 all front... from 3 months.

Result?? 2 dd's!!!

Everyone keeps saying the same to me, but everyone carries differently don't they from one pregnancy to the next. This is my first so I really don't have a clue. I am out front but I am only 19 weeks so it's not a big bump yet. I am hoping that we can find out but as you say if the baby isn't playing then it will have to be a suprise. Anyway your family shouldn't be upset if it's a boy at the end of the day as long as it's o.k. that's the main thing.

Chin up chick!!

tell them you know what it is and its a boy.

shut them the fuck up until you really know.

I had 3 identical bumps but had 2 boys and 1 girl. With ds1 I had the most problems during pregnancy. My pregnancies for ds2 and dd were virtually identical to each other.

Absolutely everyone thought that no.3 would be another boy. Even during induction and labour the MWs said it would be a boy because it was being such a little b*gger kicking at and moving away from the monitoring belt thingy. Of course no.3 turned out to be a girl.

Wise words!! ha ha

agree it's all a load of nonsene - I have never been able to work why a girl and boy would lie differently in the womb or whatever they're supposed to do

If it's any help, everyone keeps telling me that I'm having a girl too (have 2 DSs already - I guess they just want me to have a girl!). I don't care what it is as long as it doesn't give me too much trouble on the way out (and that the next 6 weeks goes quite quickly!)

When I was pregnant the world and his father continually told me it was a girl.

It used to really wind me up as it was constant all day every day. And we'd deliberately chosen not to find out the sex of the baby.

I'd point out that they had a 50% chance of getting it right whatever they said and I just got smug looks back and a patronising comment like 'oh yeah, of course' said sarcastically. That was the worst bit I think (ok some of it was a hormonal overreaction, but some were just so so so smug).

I had a boy and I was over the moon

Of course the one person who had told me I was definately having a boy was smug then

You can't win can you?