Was your nub theory wrong?

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Guys I’m spiralling. I live in Canada and standard pregnancy’s where I am don’t do the nipt. They do bloodwork and ultrasound but no gender is determined until the anatomy scan at 20 weeks. My 12 week ultrasound shows what I think is a decent nub photo, and everyone (for the most part) sees a bit nub.

I am having a hard time believing (or accepting) baby is a boy. I have one boy and this pregnancy has been 110% worse. I’ve been living on the couch since 6 weeks constantly throwing up and not able to keep anything down (even with my medication the doctor prescribed me). I am 15 weeks now and it’s just starting to ease. Also food aversions, just every single food sounding gross. I know every pregnancy is different but I just can’t believe how easy my first boy is, compared to this one (if he is a boy.)

ANYWAYS, everyone says baby is a boy. I understand it looks like a stacked nub, but the nub is also fairly straight and not as raised as I see other boy nubs. I paid for a nub theory ‘specialist’ to draw the ultrasound and the angle to spine was less than 30° (around 22°) even though they predicted boy. And the bladder is high, and not low like male bladders typically are. The white line is long and fairly parallel but there is a ‘stack’. I’m wondering if this could be surrounding tissues giving it that boy appearance. Has anyone had a ‘boy’ looking nub then ended up with a baby girl? Or am I just in denial. TIA

ps. Ultrasound was taken at 13 + 0 weeks

Definitely looks like a boy to me. Each pregnancy can be so different regardless of sexual of the baby. Are you particularly wanting a girl by any chance?

Can you afford to do a private NIPT? It does look like a boy to me but im no expert..is this your last and you are hoping for a girl - one of each?

I had the nub theorists do a prediction and they said definitely girl, but it was a boy. They refunded me lol but since then I take no notice of nubs etc. Could you get a private scan at 16 weeks to find out if you dont want to wait until 20?

There’s no guarantees but that does look like a boy, and if it’s wrong, it’s usually the other way around.

Pregnancy can be hugely different even if you’re having the same sex, it’s not the sex that controls the symptoms, it’s all old wives tales.

Can you get a confirmation scan, if you’re struggling to accept another boy? At least you’d then know for sure, and can process your feelings, so it doesn’t impact on bonding with him at birth.