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Thanks for all your comments!
I feel slightly calmer today! And thankyou atomic for your comment, I wish I knew more details about this recent story I've read but I never will so have to stop torturing myself! I'm guessing they were nhs scans where the person doesn't care enough about the gender to be certain etc
There's 50 or so comments on the thread saying 'it happened to me, it happened to my sister in law, I was meant to be a boy'
But when you look at that rationally that means most were years ago, and 50 people out of thousands that find out the sex is a small percentage!
Still debating the extra scan but will leave it a few days before I decide!
Anxiety is a bitch [emoji24][emoji24]. X
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I will tell you as probably the only person on here who had a baby 26 years ago (and most of the people now having babies are even older than that) the difference in ultrasound technology and use between then and now is HUGE. They didn't do early scans, they didn't even do them for screening in mid-pregnancy unless you were high risk (and if you were high risk, they did amnios, not ultrasounds!). They generally did them late in pregnancy for due date confirmation - this was the only reason I even had one with my first pregnancy - or if the baby had stopped moving. And you couldn't see ANYTHING on the pictures. They were nothing like the shots we get now. Nowadays everyone is having 3-5 scans and you get all these amazing pics but not long ago they didn't do any of that. So all the same issues apply - only having one scan, late in pregnancy when it's hard to see gender....these things just don't mean what you think they do. You don't know what any of these people's story is - when their scan was done, who did it and why, how much time they took...none of it. your scan is crystal clear and in the perfect age group for guessing!!
My family has a story about "he was supposed to be a girl!" My parents had decided not to find out gender but had a late scan prior to having a scheduled c-section (too late to see gender!) My stepfather, who was a paramedic and not trained in ultrasounds, thought he saw a vajayjay on the screen and he of course wanted a boy so he was flipping out and depressed for the whole rest of the pregnancy but when my brother emerged, he blurted out really loud "My kid's got BALLS!" LOL. But yeah ever since they would tell everyone "he was supposed to be a girl! Saw it on ultrasound" even though it was too late in pregnancy to see gender, and the person who allegedly saw gender was not a trained ultrasound person anyway!! This is the story behind most of these "wrong ultrasounds" once you get the actual scoop. :)
Take that 100 pounds and go shopping. :)
