Told wrong gender at ultrasound??

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Has anyone ever been told boy and it turned out to be a girl? Or the other way around?

My 16 week ultrasound at window to the womb looks like a girl in some images but I was told boy. I know they are probably correct but feel like I can’t buy anything yet as it doesn’t look very ‘boyish’.

Has this ever happened to anyone?

I genuinely don't understand how you'd need to buy particularly different stuff depending on the baby's genitals. Not being goady, I just find it so weird - for my baby I just bought stuff I thought was cute or useful. And it's so early to be getting everything sorted anyway, that baby's going to be a long time brewing and you'll have the 20 week scan to confirm anyway.

looks like a boy to me, looks nothing like my girl scan, it's missing the 3 lines that I would expect on a girl scan and in one of your pictures you've put up it looks like a ball sack (sorry for being crude! lol)

My sister was told the wrong sex at her 20 week scan - thought she was having a girl but had a boy

I always wondered how different boys and girls would look on scans. I had boys but I went with a friend and saw their 20week scan of their daughter. The difference was really obvious! No mistaking that hers was a girl! There was a sort of white triangle between her legs whereas my boys both had visible willies between their legs.

When the fuck are we going to move on from gendering colours. They're COLOURS FFS.

I can’t buy anything yet

Errrrr.....I can't think of a single baby product that requires only a penis or a vagina.

Maybe those little peepee teepees would be useless on an infant girl

Other than that, what else can't you buy?

Imagine all you amazing people able to read an online scan photo better than the trained sonographer...
Mumsnetters truly are wonderful.

So much emphasis is placed on the sex of babies. No wonder we're in such a tizzy with gender and "what makes a girl/boy". Completely ridiculous. Gender reveals, I ask you! Mad.

20 weeks anomaly scan the sonographer was certain I was having a girl. 38 week growth scan (birth date) he was a boy. It does happen I just took it in my stride, my waters broke straight after and I was holding him a few hours later. Glad I had the scan first though so I knew before giving birth 😁

This shouldn’t have turned into an issue over how I dress my baby? Boy and girl cloths are different that’s a fact unless of course you decide to dress your baby gender neutral or raise them “gender neutral”. What ever happened to just being able to buy something pink or blue without all this gender neutral crap being shoved down your throat 🙄 Dear god!

Nowt wrong with buying something pink you like. Or blue. Then just using it on the baby you get.

Ds wore a beautiful sleepsuit which was cherry red when he was a baby. It had little cream hearts all over it and the soles of the feet were navy and white stripe. It was fucking gorgeous. So I bought it. And I used it.

Just buy sleepsuits you like. Then put them on your baby.

No one is shoving crap down your throat, OP. They're just pointing out that colours are colours and there's no law that says boys can't wear pink or girls blue.

@Thisismytimetoshine erm I had a quick scan back but I can't see anyone who has said the opposite of what the sonographer did?

Boy and girl clothes are different? Shit. My DD is currently wearing jeans and a paw patrol t shirt... that isn't even pink!! Fuck.

Boy and girl clothes are only different if you choose them to be. Personally all of mine spent the first 3 months, in fact probably longer, in just sleep suits. They are comfy, soft, easy to change with minimal upset to the baby and wash and wash and wash.

If there is one thing I would say though, PLEASE dont put your baby in jeans, or in fact anything with stiff fabric and a waist band. Every single poor baby I've seen dressed up in jeans looks so uncomfortable. They are tiny little human beings with delicate skin, they need to be comfy and happy not dressed up like living dollies.

It’s a boy

Most new born baby stuff is pretty gender neutral without trying to be gender neutral surely. Very few people buy dresses for newborn girls! I suppose if you are going down the route of my little princess or my little soldier stuff then it will matter, but really don’t need to buy that stuff.

Maybe you should have saved your money on the scan and saved yourself all this angst.

When I was pregnant with DS I had no idea what we were having. Scans were to make sure he was ok not to check what sex he was. Most of the first clothes we had for him were borrowed from friends some of whom had girls and some had boys. It really didn’t matter.

It's many years since I was pregnant with dc1. It was a difficult pregnancy , involving a lot of time spent in hospital. At that time, before discharge, they would always do an ultrasound to make sure the baby was healthy. This included a scan just two weeks before dc1 was born. At that scan I was told I was clearly having a girl. He'll be 30 this year! Thankfully, I had already bought whatever I was going to buy before the birth and it was all suitable for boy or girl.

Both of mine wore the same clothes and I have a girl and a boy. Sleepsuits, bodysuits and cardigans in every colour, multi-coloured, with prints and stripes and checks and rainbows and rabbits and fish and purple flowers and comedy dogs and on and on and on. This isn't anything to do with "gender neutral" op. Gender and sex are entirely different. Clothes for babies are comfortable first and the colour is irrelevant.

And you're having a boy or a girl with a scrotum.

I wouldn't even know what I was looking at on those scans, but then I never had sexing scans and didn't want to know at the anomaly scans.
Someone I know was told she was having a girl, having previously had 4 boys. She painted the nursery pink. Bought mountains of pink stuff. Then had ds5.

I bought whatever I liked when I was pregnant. I remember buying 2 lovely sleepsuits. One was blue with Winnie the Pooh on. One was purple with Eeyore. So many people assumed I would keep the blue one if I had a boy and the purple for a girl. Both my boys wore both of them, and looked adorable!

And boys and girls clothes aren't different ( or at least they shouldn't be) until puberty
And even then only because they are different shapes. Mens jeans are far more comfortable !

Not personally but I read a story once and the lad was told on 3 scans that it was a girl and she welcomed a little boy. They literally had hundreds of baby girl clothes, shoes, personalised things with her name on

Lady* not lad. We're not that advanced in science yet.

Does it matter? Of course they may be wrong it’s never 100% accurate. Plan for either gender and let it be a fantastic surprise.

They literally had hundreds of baby girl clothes, shoes, personalised things with her name on blush
Why do people do this before they've welcomed a healthy baby of whatever sex?