As I approach my due date I nervous about many things. One of those being that the ultrasound was wrong and the baby is a boy and not a girl. I hear that this happens now and then… but I don’t know how often.
I have taken so long to find the perfect girl name and to “girlify” my son’s old room (he moved across the hall to his “big boy” room) I don’t know what I would do if the baby turned out to be a boy!
Was your ultrasound wrong? Or someone you know? Did you have a hard time choosing a name? Did you have a back up name for the other gender just in case?
My u/s was not wrong (we had a boy first, then a girl 3 1/2 years later). BUT I can understand your concern, because I was very worried that [name]Emily[/name] was a boy, so I didn’t tell anyone that she was a girl until the day she was born! And my husband and I did have a back-up boy name picked out, just in case!
It does happen, but I think it’s very rare. If probably seems like it happens a lot because the stories spread, whereas you don’t make a point of telling people “the ultrasound was right!”. Know what I mean? That said, it DID happen to my sister in law! All along they told her it was a girl, and the day before the baby was born they did another ultrasound and the technician said something like “Oh, he’s ready to come out!”, and my s-i-l said, “He? No, it’s a girl”, “See this? It’s definitely a boy!” And, he was a boy! This was before I knew my husband, so I don’t know exactly how the naming played out. I know they had a name picked for a girl, and tons of personalized stuff! They were just happy to have a healthy baby though, and I know you would feel the same. It would be a huge pain to have to redo the nursery and switch your girly stuff for boy stuff, though.
I hope I didn’t scare you! I’m sure the odds of the ultrasound being wrong are very very small! If they aren’t completely sure of the sex, they aren’t supposed to tell you anything, just that they can’t tell. Oh and by the way, my nephew is 11, so ultrasounds have probably come a long way since then!
My husband and I wanted the gender of our babies to be a surprise. We had ultrasounds, but asked the doctor not to tell us the sex of our babies. I bought neutral colored [name]Peter[/name] Rabbit bedding for our son. Our daughter had a Southwestern theme in her room with coral and turquoise coyotes - it was the early ‘90’s. We had boys’ and girls’ names for both babies. Our girls’ names list for our first child was not good - it’s a great thing that he was a boy. I would be embarrassed to say what the names on our first girls’ names list was. Eee-yu. Two of the middle names were very pretty - [name]Elizabeth[/name] and [name]Alexandra[/name].
Funny, I heard it happens more the other way. Because how can they think it’s a boy if they don’t see the penis? I can imagine them thinking it’s a girl because it’s hidden or something. But I have no real knowledge on the subject, just what I’ve heard!
I don’t know anyone who has had this happen to them, I’ve only seen it occasionally on A [name]Baby[/name] [name]Story[/name] or some such show. But it is one reason I see no need to find out the sex before delivery. I want to be suprised, anyway, though.
I’m pretty sure it’s downright rare for them to mess up nowadays. Ultrasound technology is so advanced, and the techs are so well trained, that if they told you it’s a girl, then I’d say it’s a girl!
If there was any doubt, they probably would have given you a percentage (70% sure, etc.). I’m sure they try to be extra careful so they don’t have too many disgruntled parents on their hands!
I’ve also never known anyone to have a surprise gender switch at delivery. [name]Hope[/name] that reassures you some!
P.S. I’ve always understood that they are more likely to make mistakes when they say it’s a girl. If they say it’s a boy, they probably had clear evidence (and photographed it as well!). [name]Male[/name] genitalia is pretty unmistakable after all!
Again, though, I highly doubt they’ve made a mistake with you! There have been tons of girls that I’ve known of already born this year, and all of them were correctly identified in their ultrasounds!
Is there something that is making you think it is wrong or a gut feeling. Most of the time they are correct anymore. Did you save the pictures from the ultrasound? Can you pull them back out to verify?
I did a little scoping around online and it sounds like the ultrasounds are 95% accurate when it comes to gender. My boss’s sister-in-law was in that 5% of cases where they are wrong. She thought she was having a boy, and it turned out to be a girl. The doctor was shocked, too. This was in the last year, so not so long ago.
No, I don’t have any real reasons, just pregnany jitters and hormones. With my son it was pretty obvious that he was a boy in the ultrasound pictures. With this one the ultrasound pictures look like a girl to me, but what do I know?!
I guess it wouldn’t be all that bad if she turned out to be a boy. I already have boy clothes from my son. The name part would stress me though. I like to think things through, check the SSA list about 20 times, ask advice here, talk to DH, etc. before I am comfortable with a name. I think it would be stressful, but would make for a good story later. I had a list of a few boy names from before we found out the gender. I think I will look it over and choose one for a back up, just to put me at ease. I haven’t looked at the boy name list for months, it might be interesting!
I’m a soon to be mother of three and with my two earlier sons the ultrasounds were totally right! With this one they are sure it’s a girl and I trust that they are right. I have a pretty large group of friends who are moms and everyone has had nothing but positive experiences when it comes to ultrasounds and their baby’s gender. I wouldn’t worry about it! It’s pretty rare these days to mess up an ultrasound with the technology we have.
I had this worry too, with both my girls, but of course everything turned out to be correct, LOL.
I think the umbilical cord sometimes gets mistaken as the penis in the case of girls being misidentified as boys (at least, that’s what my u/s tech said to me.)
Also, the ultrasound tech plays a big part in this. They might be inexperienced or just not be able to get a clear picture.
This happened to me. I had 3 ultrasounds including a 3D one that all said GIRL. Low and behold, I had a boy. [name]Lucky[/name] for us, the boy name was the only one we had agreed on. As far as all the pink shopping I did. That was a whole other issue!
I haven’t heard of it happening tons, but once it happened to us, more people started sharing the “friend of a friend” stories. I just met a woman at a baby shower too who said her amniocentisis read boy and she had a girl. Technology is good, but not 100% Next time, I will still find out, but I will save the shopping for later and have my names all lined up and ready to go.
Three ultrasounds were wrong? Guess the baby was being very sneaky!
Wow, I didn’t think an amniocentisis could be wrong. They must have made a mistake when they did the test, or switched samples or something.
[name]Lucky[/name] you had a boy name you liked. I had a friend who didn’t find out the gender before hand. She said it was a good thing the baby was a boy because they didn’t have a girl name that they liked.
Alright, I spent some time remembering what names we didn’t use for my son who’s name is [name]Porter[/name] [name]Austin[/name]:
[name]Trenton[/name] - This was the name we picked until I saw him, and it didn’t fit.
[name]Alexander[/name] nn [name]Lex[/name] - I like this a lot and DH likes [name]Lex[/name], but I was afraid to use it because it is #2 in my state. I have not met a single [name]Alexander[/name] my son’s age!
Other names we liked:
[name]Orion[/name]
[name]Blake[/name]
[name]Bryce[/name] - DH not so fond of
[name]Cole[/name]
[name]Henry[/name] - I hate [name]Hank[/name] so I will not use this. I know that DH, his brother and my brother would call baby [name]Hank[/name].
Boy names from this pregnancy:
[name]Orion[/name]
[name]Reed[/name]
[name]Beau[/name]
[name]Jesse[/name] - both like but too unisex
[name]Lucas[/name]
[name]Leon[/name]
Looks like I am into short and sweet boy names!
Possible middles:
[name]Charles[/name] - DH’s favorite name, his grandfather
[name]William[/name] - my dad and brother
[name]Henry[/name]
Three ultrasounds were wrong? Guess the baby was being very sneaky!
Wow, I didn’t think an amniocentisis could be wrong. They must have made a mistake when they did the test, or switched samples or something.
[name]Lucky[/name] you had a boy name you liked. I had a friend who didn’t find out the gender before hand. She said it was a good thing the baby was a boy because they didn’t have a girl name that they liked.[/quote]
We still can’t fathom how it happened. Thinking back, the funny thing was that I would always accidentally refer to the baby as “he.” I shrugged that off as something I learned in English class, etc. Maybe it was my subconcious alerting me? [name]Little[/name] did I listen! Another funny thing that happened in my pregnancy was this: When I was about 5 weeks pregnant and had just found out and no one could tell, some fortune teller type woman approached me at a Burger [name]King[/name] and said, “YOU! You will have [name]SON[/name]!” One of my friends remembered that and pointed it out to me when I was making all the calls saying we had a boy instead of a girl.
I have no clue what happened with the amniocentisis woman. That had to be some mixed up test results or something. Still, I was told those are 99% accurate, so I may have just met the 1 percent!
My friend also had 3 ultrasounds: 1st one said boy, 2nd girl, 3rd boy again and she had a boy. I think more often than not, they are accurate. My guy must have been hiding pretty good. He is all in tact too, so like I said, I have no idea what they were seeing!
