Twin nub guessing at 11 weeks...not feeling optimistic *UPDATE pg.5 with 13w pics*

[sweetpea]

Thank you all for the sweet replies. You're all making me feel a lot better. I suppose there's still a chance I could have at least one daughter. I'm hoping and praying, at least! My NT scan is a week from Monday, so hopefully I'll have some better pics to go by at that time...

[sweetpea]

sweetpea, for ressurance, check out my 12wk pics on photobucket, Twin 1 esp looks like just ur baby A. xx

12wks photo by inglewood2007 | Photobucket

Ohh, you're right! They do look very similar! I really hope this means that my Baby A will be a girl!

[sweetpea]

Sweetpea , I just wanted to let you know that a few times when looking ar confirmed nubs recently I've seen ones that got all boy guesses and were boyish ones early , turn out to be girls. It's prob not the norm but it is early so anything is still possible !
I never understood skull theory but can def see the difference in baby a and baby b's skulls! Fx baby a is a girl!

This is very encouraging, thank you!!

[atomic sagebrush]

11 w 1 day is WAY too early to guess and that tech should not be accepting money for doing it.

[atomic sagebrush]

My tech also told me that things that look like peepers CAN go away.

[atomic sagebrush]

"Prenatal gender assignment by ultrasound has a high accuracy rate at 12 to 14 weeks. At 11 weeks there was an error rate of 50% and only 14/100 assigned correct male gender. In the male fetuses after 12 weeks, there was a significant increase in the angle of the genital tubercle from the horizontal. The accuracy of sex determination increased with gestation."

11 weeks is too early, don't even worry about it! Those are some cute babies!!

[HopingWishingPraying]

Wow I am so surprised that a tech would guess at 11weeks 1 day. It just seems so early and there is so much room for error at that gestation. The fact that he did not seem aware of that and was still happy to do a nub guess at that gestation actually suggests to me that he is not very knowledgeable about nub theory... maybe he thinks he knows a lot more than he actually does. I think there is still a lot of hope for you as your sway was AWESOME! It would be one of the great injustices of the world if you ended up with 2 boys after such a fantastic sway! I hope that you are not too tortured over the next few weeks until you can get a better guess, and that you get lots of joy from sharing your news.

[Mum23boys]

Whichever way this goes hun you are truly blessed to be having twins and ok so you might not get the mother daughter relationshio that you want but you will hve something just as special ifd not more special and thats to be mummy to twins who wil forever be best friends :-) I really hope you get 1 girl atleast as thats what your so desperate for but honestly hunny to have them both here healthy is whats really important - please try not to worry as it wont do any of you any good

[Pink10]

I think the skull shapes are different A girl and B boy. Fingers crossed for you! Look forward to the update! :-)

[sweetpea]

Thank you all so much for your encouraging words, it's really helping to give me hope still and relax me a bit.

I also want to clarify something - I didn't go to this ultrasound appointment for gender determination. I knew that 11 weeks was WAY too early to tell, and didn't even ask for a gender guess. The reason for this appt was because we were going to be sharing the news with family on Thanksgiving, and wanted really good pictures of the babies to take with us. My OB had given me only a couple really crappy pictures (you coudn't even make out anything), and while I know it was frivolous, we had paid for a tiny little package, JUST to have some good shots. I made it clear that I didn't expect a gender guess, especially as I have an appt for an early gender scan at 15 weeks, but that I was only looking to have some good pics to bring to Thanksgiving.

Anyway, having said that, once I was in the room, the tech and the owner of the company were both watching the babies, and I guess what happened was, according to them, the two nubs were SO distinctly different, that they gave me a very loose, "off the record" kind of guess that they were a girl and a boy. The owner even said that she really, really hesitates to even venture a guess this early and that it wasn't at all something we should bank on, but the two just seemed to obviously opposite of each other that she thought perhaps it was a girl and a boy. But then, that's when the "girl" baby seemed to start looking more boy to them at a different angle, and then at that point she really, really wasn't sure what sex that baby was going to be. But she did say that she would be shocked if Baby B was anything but a boy - she said the nub was just so clearly a boy nub.

Either way, I just wanted to clear that up. I wasn't paying for a gender ultrasound at 11 weeks, and she was very nice - I highly doubt she would have even agreed to a scan that early if I was looking for gender (she says she starts gender determination scans at 14 weeks). I made it clear when booking the appt that I was only looking for some good pics of the babies to take with me to Thanksgiving dinner, and I was really surprised when she said she'd like to venture a guess at the sex of the babies. I probably should have just said no, that I'll wait for the 15 week scan, but curiosity just got the better of me.