Do they ever get the sex wrong?

[kellze]

I have had a 20 week scan and was told we were expecting a girl. I am over the moon. But obviously the sonographer said that she can't tell me she is 100% sure. I would be very happy with a boy but I am now 27 weeks and am starting to worry that she may have been wrong.
Are they ever wrong?

I spent 4 months waiting for my girl, even in the delivery suite they were joking 'she's a naughty one causing all this trouble coming out, you'll have trouble with her'. When they gave me my son I looked down at him and thought 'Oh it's YOU, of course it is, I know YOU'. Similar I imagine to going on a blind date and finding out the person you've been pared up with is someone you had already fallen in love with.

And I've studied ultrasound and had 'seen' a girl as had the two sonographers who had done my two (very detailed) scans when we thought the baby had downes syndrome

Hi

I only said worried about it being a boy because we don't have much money and don't want to make the mistake of a pink nursery and lots of pink clothes to then have a boy. Poor little boy would look very odd in a 'Daddy's Girl' t-shirt.

I would really stay neutral for the near future, oatmeal newborn clothes all round! (ignoring the 'If you think I'm cute you should see Mummy' pink all in one I rapidly gave away to a friend!) You'll get loads of gender appropriate pressies after the birth anyway.

I bought my gorwbags on ebay and they were very reasonable AND had great resale value. Just buy from sellers who put no pets/non smokers on their info and all the stuff I bought was lovely. Shouldn't use growbags before the LO in 10lbs at least unless it's a special one with sleeves.

Kellze, we didnt know what we were going to have so when we went to buy things for our DC we found a multitude of things that were neither pink nor blue. DD (for that is what she was!) has a yellow and green room and looks stunning in yellow. She does have alot of pink things now and when we announced the arrival of our daughter we ended up with a house full of pinkness, but if you wanted to err on the side of caution there are plenty of alternatives to pink.

Congrats btw!

If you don't have much money then I'd definitely go with a pack of neutral babygros, a pack of neutral vests, some bibs and cardigans and 8 squillion muslins. People will buy gifts that are gender specific and what's the point in spending a fortune on frankly tasteless girl themed crap items when you don't have to when they grow out of them in a week anyway.

There are so many beautiful colours out there, hundreds of them and people get sucked down the pink/blue vortex before the child's even here.

blimey Fibilou your post could have been written by me. I realy wanted a girl and was so excited to be told I was having a girl at 20 week scan, however until I was scanned at 27 weeks I didn't buy anything gender specific. Turkish gynacologist confirmed 100% girl and from that day forward we refered to her by the name we had chosen. I was told at 20 weeks it was a boy I would have had 20 weeks to get used to the idea, however if the baby had popped out a boy I would have found it very confusing.

with my DD they went between the legs and we were really sure we were having a girl (would have been happy either way!) knowing for me solved the naming issue......we struggled with boys names...

This time baby was breach at scan, and had legs cross was told they "think" a girl but if we buy pink to keep the receipts so for me its all in the air I really wanted to know so I could either go and buy some blue if a boy (for me its so when other people see they can tell boy or girl! as well as cuteness factor). if we have a girl it will be so much cheaper as we have all we would need We're not fussed either way as long as bubs is healthly I'm just impatient and would love to solve the naming debate....

My hubby won't let me go for a sexing scan even if you do there is no guarantee that they will get it right, they might spend more time looking/trying to check....

......healthy is important....in our old house the nursery was painted yellow, and we were sure by the scan this time not so much

Thanks everyone, Neutral is where we are going, Really quite sick of all the pink and baby isn't here yet. I hate slogan tshirts on babies and hope we don't get any when baby arrives. It is hard enough to get maternity t shirts without some horrible slogan such as 'hands off the bump' written all over it.

We have a lovely boys name chosen as well (after arguing about DP wanting to call our son Gabriel) so we are set.