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Anybody just instinctively KNOW the sex?

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xxhunnyxx · 11/01/2009 12:59

Hi ladies!

I'm now 15 weeks pg and I just have a 'feeling' that baby is a boy. I don't really have any real reason for thinking this, apart from the fact that I've felt it moving very early and it seems to be very active. (I know this doesn't = boy)

It may just be because I know DP is hoping for a boy and he's talked a lot about how he's going to train him to be a footballer (he's football obsessed) lol.

Or it may be because we've got our boy's name picked but haven't got so much as one name which we both like for a girl. A couple of people have also started to refer to baby as Charlie (our boy's name).

Also, a male friend of ours has just died so maybe it's me hoping for a boy to fill his shoes. Dunno.

The funny thing is that I would actually prefer a girl so I don't think this is just wishful thinking.

I've just got a 'feeling' so just wondered if anybody else has felt the same and turned out to be wrong or right?

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GinaTonic · 13/01/2009 03:29

I was totally convinced from day one it was a boy. Strangely could only come up with girls names but didn't let this put me off my convictions. A couple of days of rank testosterone smelling B.O. convinced me even more. Bingo!I was right.

seeker · 13/01/2009 06:52

I did. Completely convinced from day 1. Had a vary late scan - saw willy, balls the lot. Pointed them out to radiographer. Dd was born a week later!

Looking back, I know that I desperately wanted a girl, so I think it was my subconscious preparing me for the possibility of a boy.

notevenamousie · 13/01/2009 07:21

It's 50/50 isn't it - I "knew" too, but then the odds were fairly even on me being right!

newpup · 13/01/2009 08:22

DD1 no idea! DD2 absolutely knew she was a girl. Just a gut feeling!

CaptainKarvol · 13/01/2009 09:22

My DS is convinced I'm having a girl - calls my bump his 'little sister'. We'll see in about 2 months...

magnummum · 13/01/2009 18:57

Knew I was having a girl first time round, just a gut feeling. Currently 19 weeks pregnant with twins and have decided to find out at next scan what they are - gut feeling says one of each!

AnybodyHomeMcFly · 13/01/2009 19:48

Yup, I have "just known" both times (one DS and now a DD on her way). Can't explain why although maybe the human (female!) brain is even more clever than we realise. Hormones are amazing things...

midniteoil · 15/01/2009 14:56

I knew every time. Totally convinced.

Number one was definitely a girl. I just knew. Until sonographer said she saw boy bits.

Number two was a girl because I felt very very sick and the pregnancy was so different. (He turned out to be a boy)

Number three was a boy, because we only do boys. (She is definitely not.)

Number four was a girl because number three child needed a sister, and she knew it the baby was going to be a pink one. She just knew. She even named the bump and spent hours telling 'her' about all the fun they'd have. He's lots of things our baby, but not a girl.

So all four times I knew for sure. And all four times I was wrong.

Hmmmmm

MirandaG · 15/01/2009 15:22

I was convinced I was having a boy each time. I have two daughters

wasabipeanut · 15/01/2009 15:30

I knew from about 20 weeks or so. Basically ds kicked me so hard, so constantly I just thought "this just HAS to be a boy."

I referred to my bump as "he" for ages and I was right.

Had nothing to do with sickness, bump positioning or anything like that!

mum2b09 · 15/01/2009 15:32

At first i was 100% convinced i was having a boy after about 28 weeks my mind was completely changed and im almost convinced im having a girl haha 8 weeks to go cant wait to find out :D xxxxx

TinkerBellesMumandFiFi2 · 15/01/2009 15:33

I've known three times I was having a girl and three times been right. I felt easy to think about a girl but wrong when I thought about having a boy. I would have been happy whatever though so wasn't wishful thinking.

jen992 · 15/01/2009 16:08

I know we're having a boy (been told at 2 different scans) BUT i still feel like it's a girl??!! I don't mind which sex we have as long as he/she is healthy! funny tho how i feel it's a girl? but obviously the chances are slim if 2 different scans have said it's a boy!

MyNameIsInigoMontoya · 15/01/2009 16:22

Can't say I had any feelings, but everybody ELSE kept telling me it would be a boy - not one person guessed it would be a girl! I ended up half-wanting them all to be proved wrong, but no, it WAS a boy... they all gave different (and often very woolly) reasons for saying it would be a boy though, so not sure that actually proves anything!

nantee · 15/01/2009 17:00

It's funny - I knew I was having a boy the whole time before my DS was born.. Even when the consultant had a bet on in the theatre that it was a girl before he started on the c-section!

It was very strange though - I would have been happy for either flavour of baby, but as we were so convinced it was a boy we would have been very shocked if it had of turned out to be a girl.

The thing that really did it for me though was a hypnotherapy session in the final weeks of being pregnant and I had a sudden flash of the baby's face while I was under - and it was definitely him and a boy! Beezare!

nightingale452 · 15/01/2009 17:01

I knew DD1 was a girl all along, but couldn't tell you why, just gut feeling.

Not so sure with DD2, but the weirdest thing with her was that early on in the pregnancy I had a kind of premonition that I would give birth at home on the floor in my hallway. My first labour had been on the rapid side so I knew I was worried about making it to hospital, and just dismissed it as that. Guess where I gave birth - that's right, exactly where I'd seen it at about 12 weeks pregnant.

purpleduck · 15/01/2009 17:19

I knew with both of mine - just a gut feeling.

Notreallycutoutforthis · 15/01/2009 17:33

I felt pretty sure I was having a boy, and very definite that I was having an awkward b*gger.

Right on both counts

MillBill · 16/01/2009 17:53

It's gone boy, girl, boy, girl... in our family 11 times so far, from when my Mum had her first child, so you can pretty much guess whose having what now!

MillBill · 16/01/2009 17:55

I mean girl, boy, girl, boy... but you get the picture!

hellymelly · 16/01/2009 21:16

with dd1 I just knew ,and asked at the twenty week scan anyway just to confirm it.with dd2 I was less sure until I saw her on a scan at six weeks and then I thought "girl".I am right 90% of the time with friends too.
There was a guy at one of my ante natal appointments and he looked at each of the women there and guessed the sex-correctly!
we all knew what we were having.He was only about 22,there with his wife,he said it was our shape.

Amapoleon · 16/01/2009 21:18

I knew both times, girl then boy. I have no explanations I just knew.

Cris96 · 16/01/2009 23:02

Was 100 per cent it was a boy - hubby had to convince me at eight and half months to pick girls name just in case! Anyway when midwife said "it's a boy" i just said " i know". Still don't know why hubby worried about names as our son was baby until last day we could legally registar him and even then we stood outside registary office for about ten minutes - but hey we never do anything quickly in this family!!

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