If we looked during the anatomy scan, and didn't see "anything", does that mean it's a girl?
We decided not to find out sex of our first baby until the birth, due in December.
We had an anatomy scan on Friday, a level 2 high res ultrasound b/c I'm over 35 years old.
Everything looked great with the baby... we are so happy and grateful, that is all that matters to us.
I didn't really think about whether or not we could "look" during the scan and now I'm kicking myself.
The ultrasound tech started the appointment by confirming that she would not be telling us the sex during the appointment.
So we assumed it was fine to look, we wanted to see the baby again and watch the tech point out all the different organs that have developed.
But the tech did move the wand around quite a bit b/c baby was curled up and had hands in front of his or her face.
So there were plenty of full body scans and profile shots of baby throughout the appointment.
At one point, after the tech pointed out the diaphragm, kidneys and cord - she told us to look away so she could get the "potty shot" and take pics of genitals.
After the appointment, H and I both kinda assumed it was a girl since the tech did scan the baby several times and we didn't see anything that resembled a penis.
Now granted, H and I have never dissected any ultrasound pics, we have no clue what we'd be looking for really and whether the baby was positioned correctly to see gender. (We were a little disoriented the entire appointment b/c it looked like the tech was in the area of the brain, but somehow was showing us the heart?)
But then, in my facebook pregnancy group, women are always like "oh we saw the sex immediately, he was just showing "IT" off" or "Yep, we saw the 3 lines clearly, knew it was a girl".
I guess I'm just trying to set expectations - we were at 19 weeks - didn't see anything that looked to be a penis on our anatomy scan - safe to say it's probably a girl then? or does the baby have to be positioned correctly to see the genitals? Or do we need some sort of training to know what we're even looking at?
So we're kinda bummed b/c we feel like we ruined the surprise by sabotaging ourselves by looking during our scan. And if I'm completely honest - I did a "soft" blue sway so there's a tiny bit of disappointment and assumption that this was my only chance at blue. (Mostly b/c my fertility Dr has suggested that due to my age and it taking several months to fall pregnant with baby #1, we start trying for Baby #2 almost immediately, whenever my cycle returns, maybe 9-12 months postpartum. And I hear that is a huge pink sway.)
Anyway, what do you all think - did you see the gender of the baby during your 20 week scan without the tech telling you or were you completely clueless until tech pointed it out?