This was a while ago, but I’ve never stopped thinking about it and whether there is more to it. I’m 20 odd weeks pregnant and due to a previous dermoid cyst I had to travel to Exeter for all my scans when we lived in notts with my husbands job. (We’d moved from Exeter) so on the anomaly scan I brought my daughter with me who was asleep in the buggy. She would have been coming up 2.
I said “sorry I had to bring the baby with me as my husband is working” and she replies “thats not a baby” in a really flat, bitchy way. She wasn’t jolly in the slightest.‘I felt stupid and just rather wary of her. It was just us two in the room.
sk she scans me and when it gets to the gender she asks if I want to know and I say as my husband isnt there and he’s like to find out with me, could she possibly wrote it on a piece of paper just B or G and I’ll open it when we are together. She says no you either find out now or not at all. So I um and ah for a minute and she rolls her eyes and sighs. So I say ok now please. She says while taking her gloves off “I’m afraid it’s another boy” which was me totally confused as my “baby” was a girl but I guess dressed in boys clothes- dungarees and red shoes and didn’t have much hair. It completely ruined my experience of finding out his gender. But typical of me I thanked her so much for her time and told her to have a lovely day on the way out. Years later or if I’d had someone with me I would have said something of course like “I beg your pardon?” Or “what did you just say”‘I’ve thought of it hundreds of times. She’s definitely in the wrong job. I would have thought seeing people’s happiness all day every day would make you a kind person. But she was an outright horrible cruel person. Mostly I wonder if she says that to everyone who has a child of the same gender already or if she hates boys. Am I overthinking it ?