WelcomeBaby
July 18th, 2019, 07:15 AM
Hey ladies, just out of curiosity. I swayed pink but I'm 150% sure I'm pregnant with another boy. I'm 20 weeks along and team green - well, I was until yesterday at the scan. Here's what happened:
Before the scan, I told the - very experienced - tech I didn't want to know gender and also that I would see a specialist doctor in 3 weeks time for another very thorough u/s to detect possible birth defects (I've already given birth to an affected child). She said fine, she'll just do a 2min scan to measure head and abdominal circumference.
She did and was done in 2mins like she said. Spent no time checking gender of course. I never looked at the screen.
After the scan she commented on how rare being team green had become and that SHE now knew exactly what I was having (broad smile). Then she said that unfortunately she couldn't give me any of the u/s pics (health insurance covers up to 5 printouts) because the sex was clearly visible in all of them.
I was SO CLOSE to saying "damn it, you just confirmed it's a boy, hand me the goddamn pictures" but I was too shocked and just left.
So... if you ask me, she DID confirm it's a boy. Even at 20 weeks, only boy parts are so undoubtedly clear and visible within less than 2 mins, right? I've never heard of a tech or even doctor, no matter how experienced, who identified a girl with so much confidence after a 2min scan without even deliberately checking for gender. In addition, I'm a layperson, and we all know that for laypeople girl parts can look confusing and that only a penis can be immediately unmistakable at 20 weeks. So if it was a girl, she wouldn't have had reason to be worried that I'd recognize the sex too easily, at least not in the pics where the baby wasn't in a good position, right? What do you think?
Before the scan, I told the - very experienced - tech I didn't want to know gender and also that I would see a specialist doctor in 3 weeks time for another very thorough u/s to detect possible birth defects (I've already given birth to an affected child). She said fine, she'll just do a 2min scan to measure head and abdominal circumference.
She did and was done in 2mins like she said. Spent no time checking gender of course. I never looked at the screen.
After the scan she commented on how rare being team green had become and that SHE now knew exactly what I was having (broad smile). Then she said that unfortunately she couldn't give me any of the u/s pics (health insurance covers up to 5 printouts) because the sex was clearly visible in all of them.
I was SO CLOSE to saying "damn it, you just confirmed it's a boy, hand me the goddamn pictures" but I was too shocked and just left.
So... if you ask me, she DID confirm it's a boy. Even at 20 weeks, only boy parts are so undoubtedly clear and visible within less than 2 mins, right? I've never heard of a tech or even doctor, no matter how experienced, who identified a girl with so much confidence after a 2min scan without even deliberately checking for gender. In addition, I'm a layperson, and we all know that for laypeople girl parts can look confusing and that only a penis can be immediately unmistakable at 20 weeks. So if it was a girl, she wouldn't have had reason to be worried that I'd recognize the sex too easily, at least not in the pics where the baby wasn't in a good position, right? What do you think?