sex of baby at 20 week scan?

[lilimama]

were they able to tell this early?

Yes. But some hospitals don't any more I think.

What picante said

thanks, am not nhs (in netherlands) so just wondering if the technology can actually tell. does anyone have any experience of accuracy at the 20 week scan? thanks

lol me too! Yup they can definitely tell, sometimes the baby is in a position where they can't see though.

Norktastic do you mean "me too" you're in the NL?

I did mean that I'm in NL too, it was a bit vague wasn't it!

They can def tell. We found out at our 12 week scan (though were incredibly lucky to do so)...

Norktastic, hope you're keeping warm!

Blame It, Wow that is early, was it just good positioning in the moment of scan do you think? Was it a girl or boy? I've heard it's easier to tell early when it's a boy.

He's a boy so i guess that makes it easier. To be fair, the sonographer did say 'I can't be 100% at this stage but if I had to put money on it, I'd say you were having a boy'.

It really is cold isn't it . It's made DP happy though, he can finally ice skate again! Mind you the whole country's in a bit of a tizz about the skating thing aren't they...

How many weeks are you? I'm 18 weeks ATM so DC2 is due in June.

i found out at my 12 week scan too, mine's a girl! i think it depends on the skill of the person doing it. I think 20 weeks is pretty accurate because everything is there by then. I think they are more likely to mistake a boy for a girl than the other way round.

ooh sounds good! First time round we didn't want to know but second time I can't wait. Funny that! So Baby Baby, the sonographer could see it was a girl at 12 weeks? Or wasn't sure...

Norktastic, yes re the skating. the other day I was walking in the park in Amsterdam and this guy was skating madly on the ice (he was the only one) and I could see the ice was a bit watering roudn the edges and he was yelling over to me and DS (sleeping in the kinderwagen)saying Come one, you can skate too, with the kinderwagen, come one! I was like, "Not on your nelly mate...Bye Bye". Later I heard that loads of peeps were off to hospital due to accidents on unsafe ice

Anyway, back to the thread. Hopefully I can find out in 10 days then. Am 10.5 weeks now, due very end of July.

she said it looked like a girl at 12 weeks, I had another at 16 and they said the same thing and it was confirmed at 20 weeks (will find out for definate in April though!)

oohh! thought I would have to wait forever skippety skip. x