Part 3: Due January, February and March 2019

[Eighme]

Possibly, maybe they got flustered and just wrote something for the sake of writing. I'm anxious to hear how it goes this afternoon!

Also, same boat, I just resigned myself to that I'm probably having another boy (I won't know for sure for awhile, I think I'm just trying not get my hopes up) and I'm already planning my sway in my head after this one is born.

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[ABC.2606]

Kelbear - Ugh I'm so sorry for the worry you are now having to deal with! I don't understand what sheath or casing around a placenta would mean - did she say? Does she think it might be IUGR? As others have said I feel like they are often wrong about growth estimates, and I really do believe babies grow at different rates despite the "normal" growth track they are supposed to follow. Could you get a scan done through a perinatal specialist/high risk doc? I had one of these with DS2 (I had bleeding issues in the pregnancy) and WOW - they have really high tech, sophisticated equipment that's able to see a lot! I'm going to go back to that same high risk doc for my anatomy scan in a few weeks. Maybe your doc would recommend sending you to one? You'd probably get a lot more information than from a regular ultrasound.

TP - I really doubt the "normal genitals" thing means anything... I mean normally they would have written gender so if they didn't write that down it probably really is because the tech didn't know. And if the tech didn't know and couldn't get a shot of it I doubt the doctor could tell from a pic. I've noticed with my tech (I get an ultrasound every appt) that when she gets a good "shot" of something, she freezes the frame and prints it. Whatever the tech printed out for the doc to see, I'm sure the tech would have seen if there were genitals in the pics she was giving to the doc. Also HB means nothing!!! I have B/G twins (I hope!) and their HBs have been both high and almost the same as each other the whole time - started out 122 & 134, then 176 & 185, then 167 & 160, and this last scan 157 and 150. This last scan where she identified the boy he had the 157 and the "girl" was 150.

[Throwaway_panther]

Thank you Eighme and ABC! Ugh, my mom just told me she thinks the baby is a girl and now I'm bummed. I pointed out she thought DD was a boy the whole time, and she said, "No I thought girl!" She was literally referring to her as "he" and warning me about letting him play American football the whole time... lol, so I know I shouldn't necessarily count her intuition for anything, but still. She is the first "girl" guess outside of some stranger and it hurts to hear, especially the day of ny anxiety inducing scan!

[Girlswaylondon]

TP everyone guessed girl for my DS! Thankfully I had no gender preference at the time so didn’t mind! But anyway, they were all wrong

[Eighme]

Thank you Eighme and ABC! Ugh, my mom just told me she thinks the baby is a girl and now I'm bummed. I pointed out she thought DD was a boy the whole time, and she said, "No I thought girl!" She was literally referring to her as "he" and warning me about letting him play American football the whole time... lol, so I know I shouldn't necessarily count her intuition for anything, but still. She is the first "girl" guess outside of some stranger and it hurts to hear, especially the day of ny anxiety inducing scan!

Don't listen to others. I always try to correct them that we don't know the gender and OWT were just that OLD WIVES TALES. My sister in law had classic OWT syptoms and everyone was so convinced it was a girl, but HE is very much a boy.

I know it is definitely hard to not mind others opinions, especially your own mother's. But keep your head up! You have your chance at a son just like the rest of us!

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[simkan]

Don't let peoples guesses get to you TP. Perhaps tell them to focus their intuition elsewhere... like winning lottery ticket numbers. I would say to my mom (or whoever was guessing) that I don't want to speculate and everyone will find out at the birth. I've said before that not one person guessed boy for our second. And before we got the nipt results this time round my mom was very much pushing for me to prepare for a 3rd boy. People generally guess what they think you want to hear or what you don't to try soften the blow later. Ignore it

And with regards to the results on your scan. Maybe the tech did see and just told you they couldn't do you wouldn't look for clues knowing you really don't want to know. I know my OB didn't have the gender written for either of my other pregnancies.
At my firsts birth I told her I was having a boy based on intuition and she was so sceptical. She definitely did not have the gender written on any chart.
At my second the midwife said "she" when I got into the hospital and then my OB said "he" during the birth. They didn't know. They just picked a pronoun and went with it.

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[ABC.2606]

TP how did the scan go?

I wouldn’t worry about your mom. My stepmom thought DS2 was a girl - said she had a strong feeling it was!


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[Throwaway_panther]

Thank you ladies, I really really appreciate it. Scan was just passably ok, haha. Still almost didn't get the shots we needed since baby was in same stubborn position and had to do a whole lot of moving again.

But I had sort of a meltdown after. Tech knew we didn't want gender, but asked what we had at home. She sort of just went, "Oh ok" noncommittally, which threw me off and made me think she knew. Then she kept showing the stomach/cord and I saw NOTHING between legs. Even DH went, "Should we be seeing this?" She said she couldn't even see gender there so she wasn't sure what she thought we saw. But I am feeling very much like this can't be anything but a girl, and I have been bummed and really upset DH further. I wish I had canceled this scan

[simkan]

Awe TP please don't stress. Her reaction doesn't sound like it gave anything away. She also has no idea what you'd be hoping for so her reaction could mean anything...
I didn't see anything with DS2 and even though I was team green I looked. Glad you did get the shots you needed in the end.

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[ABC.2606]

I think techs are trained to not show any emotion with gender. With my boys and the scan I had last week, I’ve never had a tech show any kind of emotion when telling me the gender.

I hope your not seeing anything between the legs doesn’t mean anything. I would hope too that if the gender was visible at all, either boy or girl, she would not have been showing you that area! FWIW the tech last week found baby boy’s “stuff” in like three seconds- I was watching the whole time and I didn’t see anything! I don’t know what she was talking about! I just asked her “oh so his stuff is pretty visible?” and she said yea. But I really didn’t see it. Their eyes are way better trained than ours I guess!


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