Nub experts help with my 12 week scan!!

just to clarify - that was based on nub theory the company telling me that, it wasnt a blood test or anything :)

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Originally Posted by babybluedreamer

THANKS everyone! i really hope so... i have had some mixed messages and paid for a company to tel me boy or girl - they said girl :/
dont want to get my hopes up! the other two scans i cant see any boy nub?! but the one you circled it does look stacked - is it definitely not "forked"? i am trying to work out what "three lines" looks like but i cant seem to undertand it either way!

thanks againx

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Don't look for 3 lines, look for either forking or stacking. Girl nubs are usually long and forked while boys are short and stacked. This thread should help you visualize what I mean:
http://genderdreaming.com/forum/ultr...bs-inside.html

One of the most clear looking boy nubs I've seen in awhile [emoji4] (amatuer guesser)

I only very rarely guess on ultrasounds this early but I feel pretty confident that this is a boy baby. Huge congrats!!

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Originally Posted by phalaenopsis78

I‘m interested in this too since my 12 Week Scan looked very much like your second picture babybluedreamer and Atomic was not sure if the Stacking you See is really the nub or some Other Part. Since the picture goes Black at the Point it‘s hard to Tell. The First picture Looks Boyish, I agree.

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I actually think the first pic could be potentially girl but the second shot is boyish, and then looking at the first shot again in light of the second shot I can see what appears to be a nub on the rise. :)

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Originally Posted by atomic sagebrush

I actually think the first pic could be potentially girl but the second shot is boyish, and then looking at the first shot again in light of the second shot I can see what appears to be a nub on the rise. :)

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Thanks so much. Does it make a difference that the shots were taken during the same scan ie same day/time? Im confused as to why one shows a boy nub and other a girly one...

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Originally Posted by phalaenopsis78

I‘m interested in this too since my 12 Week Scan looked very much like your second picture babybluedreamer and Atomic was not sure if the Stacking you See is really the nub or some Other Part. Since the picture goes Black at the Point it‘s hard to Tell. The First picture Looks Boyish, I agree.

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Hi Phalaenopsis - I am confused. Did Atomic say that baout your scan (re the other part?) or mine!?

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Originally Posted by atomic sagebrush

I actually think the first pic could be potentially girl but the second shot is boyish, and then looking at the first shot again in light of the second shot I can see what appears to be a nub on the rise. :)

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thank you Atomic!!! fingers crossed - you have been on this journey with me from the start so I am really hopeful that I can tell you wonderful news in a few weeks !!!! trying so hard not to get my hopes up!!! :)

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Originally Posted by babybluedreamer

Thanks so much. Does it make a difference that the shots were taken during the same scan ie same day/time? Im confused as to why one shows a boy nub and other a girly one...

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It is because at that stage of gestation (and particularly earlier, so thru the 11th week) all babies look like girls. The Y chromosome is dormant in early pregnancy so all babies appear to be girls. Then in the 10th week the Y chromosome wakes up and starts making testosterone and then what looks like girly parts, turn into boy-ly parts, LOL. If you have your scan too early (and like I say, 12+4 is earlier than I prefer to guess) a baby that looks like a girl can be a boy still because the nub simply hasn't finished development and risen to appear obviously boy.

So in that top pic, the end is cut off, and that coupled with the fact that it's still early, is obscuring the fact that the baby is likely a boy (IMO, keep in mind I am not an expert tho). But then in the second pic, they capture the tip of the goods and I see stacking in that that appears quite boyish, and then when I went back and looked at the first picture again I could see an angle on the nub that true girl nubs do not have and thus I suspect it's in the process of rising.

I would not of course paint the nursery yet, but it looks boyish to me. I'm just trying to explain why someone else could quickly look at that top shot, without spending much time/effort on it, and say girl when we are thinking it's a boy. :)

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Originally Posted by babybluedreamer

Hi Phalaenopsis - I am confused. Did Atomic say that baout your scan (re the other part?) or mine!?

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I said that about phalaenopsis' scan because as I recall it was less clear than yours. I'll try to look it up to compare.