Gender ultrasound doesn't look right

[Artycole]

Hi all,

We went for a gender scan today and hose not to find out at the clinic. We went home and found out together. However, after looking at the picture, we are struggling to understand how this means it's a boy. I get that they have put pointers but i just can't figure out what angle we are at. It looks like a hand to me. I don't know if it's just because I'm struggling to accept that it's a boy, as I was so sure it was a girl. I'd love to know if anyone else can decipher this pic.

Thanks in advance 😊

The thing is that when they look for the sex, they are looking at a moving, 2/3D image. It’s hard to convey the same image in a snapshot of a scan.

They aren’t usually wrong when they indicate boy.

It doesn't really matter. It'll be one or the other and you'll love it just as much either way.

Girls bits normally look like a hamburger. Looks like a boy to me.

You can't have a gender scan....gender is a fluid, ill defined, feelz guided thing...you mean a sex scan...is the foetus male or female on what external genitalia the sonographer cam see.

It does not look like a hand. They could be wrong but it’s not that likely. Although I’m not sure I’d trust a place that writes ‘boy bits’.

How many weeks?

I imagine OP added that annotation for Mumsnet!

It’s a sex scan, the child will decide their own gender when they are older.

They made that judgment from the moving images. These screenshots aren't photographs, they're computer generated images of a "slice". From another angle the same body parts would look completely different.
This is why sonographers have years of training to do what they do!

It was the sonographer that put boy bits. I'm completely happy for my child to decide who they are when they are ready. I agree that I should have put sex scan, it was just because in the UK, they are still called and booked in as a 'gender scan'. Outdated, I agree.

It looks very much like my scan and baby is a boy.

I couldn’t make out my scan either and couldn’t fully trust it. But like pp said - the sonographers are trained, we arnt, and they spend a good while looking at the screen. The picture is just a snapshot.

My scan was right - my baby girl was born five days ago.

They aren’t called “gender scans” in the UK. They are called a 20 week anomaly scan.

@HBZ287 perhaps the OP has gone to a private clinic for a "gender scan" specifically to find out the sex? Not all NHS 20 week scans will tell you the sex.

OP went to a private clinic.

Actually in the UK many people book private gender scans (which is what the clinics call them). The anomaly scan is a separate NHS scan that doesn’t always tell you the sex, which is why many book gender scans. You can see on her scan photo that it was at a private clinic.

Multiple cross posts!

But it’s not though is it. Gender and sex are the same thing and not interchangeable. Sure you can suddenly “decide” your a boy if your a female but it makes you no more of a boy then it makes me a cabbage.

besides, if family started getting invites to sex parties instead of gender reveal parties there might be some strange questions asked. Unless you come from a really odd family 🤷‍♀️ who knows

Well said. Anomaly scans arnt there to check the baby’s gender they are there to check the health/size of the baby from various organs etc. some of them refuse to tell you the gender because that’s not the focus of the scan. A private gender scan will tell you the gender. No where calls it a sex scan because gender and sex are the same thing