Told wrong gender at ultrasound??

[mecabag]

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?

One of my closest friends was told girl. Baby boy arrived,

@mecabag is it too late for you to do Harmony now? We did that and they found Y chromosomes in the fetal DNA, so pretty clear it’s a boy! (Later got a great meat and two veg shot at a scan )

Hi OP, looks like a boy to me. I think you're not seeing the turtle head cos baby's legs are quite close together. Still definitely looks like something's there tho!

Looks like a boy to me! Very unusual to be told boy and then have a girl. Very common to be told girl then have a boy!

My poor friend has 2 boys and was desperate for a girl, but she’s having a 3rd boy!

I would wait til your 20 week scan to confirm. I was told boy at my private scan at 16 weeks and you could definitely tell he was a boy. Your pictures certainly seem less conclusive to me

I was told boy at 16w private scan and girl at 20w anomaly scan. He was a boy! So I wouldn't say the NHS scan is any more accurate. I think it depends on the angle, if the baby is playing ball and how long they have to check (at my 20w scan the baby was not being at all cooperative so she only had a quick look at the end, which is totally fair enough - I know that scan is about the health of the baby, not anything else).

What ever happened to just being able to buy something pink or blue without all this gender neutral crap being shoved down your throat

hahahaha. This isn't some kind of new snowflakey political-correctness-gone-mad thing! This crazy fad for gendering children before they are even born is the new phenomenon. Even my baby clothes from the late 80s are "gender-neutral" as you put it, or maybe just "for babies". T-shirts, dungarees, baby-gros in lovely colours and patterns.

I literally don't understand why everything a baby uses needs to scream its sex. There's nothing to stop you from buying a plain wooden cot with an everyday mattress and a set of white sheets. Or pack of plain bodysuits. Or a car seat that's neither here nor there to look at but which has passed rigorous safety checks. I can see there are a very few things that you would let the baby's sex dictate just from a personal taste point of view, but for the most part baby kit is for all babies.

Definitely looks like boy! Nothing like a girl scan

None of the big items I bought were gender specific. Just a black travel system and a car seat with embroidered circles. The cot is white and the toys I bought were just ones I thought DD would like.
The clothes I bought were mostly targeted at girls but I did buy some boys’ outfits because I thought they were cute. I bought clothes I liked regardless of colour. OP, buy what you want for your DC but make sure you reinforce that boys can like pink and girls can like blue in other ways.

I was told DD1 was a boy at the 20w anomaly scan. "We can never guarantee but I'm 95% sure!" I had a HB with her and in my area, HBs have to have a 37w scan to check baby's position. I kept talking about "he" and "him" and finally the MW gave me a funny look and asked if I knew what I was having.

She must've been used to people kicking off about that sort of thing, as she very kindly and clearly explained that my baby did not have a penis and was unlikely to be a boy 🤣

Luckily we were not fussed but it was quite weird. As it turned out she arrived before her due date and we only had about 10 days to find a new name for "Freddie"!

Do the people who spend hundreds on pink crap do it all again if their 2nd is a boy? What a waste of money (and what clever marketing)
Mothercare sure knew what they were doing when they started on the blue / pink thing, instead of all the pastel shades they used to do.
ELC were the same, their theme colours were green/purple until they realised they could sell the same thing twice

I know someone (distant friend more like acquaintance) who was told girl throughout. She would post on Instagram daily how she can’t wait to meet her girl with the name she’d chosen. Bought everything pink, etc. Couldn’t quite believe it when she uploaded a hospital pic of her baby announcing she had a boy dressed in a pink outfit, pink mittens, pink blanket, etc

Boy and girl cloths are different that’s a fact

Not for babies, really. They tend to live in babygrows for the first few months anyway. I bought all sorts of colours and patterns- I just went with what I liked. My little girl wore a lot of blue and if DC2 is a boy he'll be wearing pink too. You can always buy a few gender specific outfits after its born for Facebook pics etc, if you're one of those people who feel a newborn baby girl needs an oversized bow on her head and a pink tutu.

I had a scan at 15 weeks and was told girl and at 20 week scan the woman took a ‘potty shot’ and said definitely boy! The sonographer explained that it’s much more common for them to think it’s a girl and get it wrong than vice versa as often the boy can be hiding his parts so they falsely assume girl. Whereas if she says boy... chances are it is a boy x

Yes I had a friend who was told the baby was a girl. Painted the nursery pink, and got a shock when the baby was delivered!

And from the scan photos you uploaded I’d say definitely boy !

Yeah a women I worked with got all pink and then it was a boy, saw pictures of him in a pink bouncer with pink bibs on.
With mine I didn't find out and had white/yellow then when they grew out of the newborn stuff people obviously knew and bought the relevant colour, and I went to the shops and did the same. You don't have to have stuff like clothes organised beforehand x

Listen, when I gave birth to DD1, DH said to the midwife 'Can you let Lougle look first to see the sex?', so she obligingly passed DD1 to me through my legs, and I exclaimed "It's a boy!!" There was a bit of an awkward silence and DH coughed and said 'look again?', then I exclaimed "It's a girl!!!!"

I had no idea that girl bits are very swollen at birth and look quite like testicles when you've had your fair share of gas and air

I'd buy beige, oatmeal, etc., to be safe.

And I cannot believe that fully grown, procreating adults are still bothered about putting babies in colours of clothing according to their sex

Me neither. It is absurd.

Do the people who spend hundreds on pink crap do it all again if their 2nd is a boy? What a waste of money

I have no idea, but have wondered the same thing. It is clever marketing by the retail industry if people do buy everything again if their 2nd child is of the opposite sex though isn’t it?

I know someone who was expecting triplets told three boys. Had 1 boy and 2 girls!

@mecabag Honestly if you mention gender scan/ sex of baby/ pink/ blue etc you will get a barrage of comments with people telling you how you should dress your baby and how you are so wrong to want to dress a girl in pink or a boy in blue. They really do get their knickers in a twist about it! Or should I say underwear in a twist because knickers are for girls!
Dress your baby however you want! X x

Argh. It's not even gender. It's sex. Why can't people use the correct terminology?

Dress your baby however you want. But don't just buy things because they're pink or blue. It's utterly ridiculous. I had one of each and , guess what, they both wore the same sleepsuits for the first few months of their lives.

I have no idea, but have wondered the same thing. It is clever marketing by the retail industry if people do buy everything again if their 2nd child is of the opposite sex though isn’t it?

I actually think that's why baby clothes are a lot more 'gendered' these days. I'm 12 weeks pg and was having a browse online. Even newborn baby grows seem to be covered in pink flowers, pink leopard print or blue dinosaurs and diggers - obviously either sex can wear them but what's wrong with having lots of plain brightly coloured baby grows, or ducks, rabbits etc.
I think it's because if companies make clothes 'unisex' then people won't bother re-buying.

Older DS was mainly in plain white baby-grows at first except for gifts from people but I'd like to find somewhere that sells plain baby grows in nice bright colours or just with cute animals on them.

@AndMyHairWillShineLikeTheSea I got a few from M and S. They're really lovely and soft too. The sizes are generous so they last a long time, they have a specially coloured popper to help with fastening up and they have grippy pads on the feet of the older ones and scratch mitt foldings on the hands of the younger ones. I really like them. They do do pink and blue too, but they had quite a nice neutral range when DD was a baby.

Since I'm a massive skinflint, if I have a son after this DD, he's wearing what she's wearing, so it will be as non-gender specific as possible. The rise of gendered clothes is totally due to consumerism/capitalism.