Finding out your babies gender??

My MILs cousins daughter was expecting a girl (told from scan) and ended up with a 12lb boy!!

It can happen I guess - nothing is infallible

A friend of mine was meant to have a girl, according to her 20 week scan, but ended up with a healthy boy. She actually wasn't all that surprised herself, as a psychic told her "a little boy is waiting for her" a couple of months before she got pregnant. Her midwife wouldn't let her dress him in pink clothes to go home from hospital though , so it may pay to pack a few white ones just in case?

MW believed Daniel was a girl based on the heart rate but scan said he was a boy and a boy he certainly is

My MW refuses to guess for me.....

The scan guy didnt wanna tell me what I was having with DD untill 28th weeks and then he said he was 99% certain that its a GIRL.

I am hoping to find out what I am having next Wed from Scan. I think the H/beat thing is an OWT??

My midwife doesn't believe in the heart rate thing. I just asked her last night. It does seem to work for a lot of people though. I'd definitely believe a scan over it.

Oh goodness a friend of mine has been told she's having a girl..she's been given HEAPS of pink stuff ( I got her white & yellow though) ..and she's been calling bubs the chosen name since the scan...hmm

My friend was just telling me the other day that her Mum thought she was going to be a boy and so everyone bought "boy" gifts and things before she was born. Her favourite toy growing up was a "boy's" toy. She's just over 30, so not sure whether it was from a scan or OWTs that her Mum was so sure?

We have found out that we're having a boy. Our obstetrician could tell at my 15wk scan and my 20wk scan this morning confirmed it. The "boy's bits" were very visible!

I've always heard that when you are told it's a boy (from a scan) it's pretty definite, but for girls there's always a chance they've just missed the important bits?

I thought the heart rate thing was just an old wives tale?? Babies heart rates change so frequently (and thats a good thing apparently), I'd believe the scan over the heart rate.

ETA: found this on net

Heartbeats

One belief that has been around for some time, and even had some acceptance in the medical community at one point, is that the fetal heartbeat differs for boys and girls. If you're having a girl, then the fetal heart rate will be above 140. A boy will have a heart rate below 140. However, that pesky science has reared its little head again to say that this is complete fiction. A baby's heart rate is not affected by its sex until it is born, when a girl's heart rate will increase considerably compared with boys during labor.


Edited by 2bmumof3

Yes that happened to me!! At my 20 week scan we were told we were having a girl, and then at my 38 week scan was told it was a boy. I was in denial right up until my son was born.......we didn't even have a boys name planned! I'm just glad I didn't buy too many pink things, and that my SIL had a baby boy 6 months earlier so had some blue things handed down. So I'm thinking next time I'll still ask but will definitely be weary lolz

My midwife made a passing comment recently that my baby was probably a girl based on the heartrate. This was some weeks after my 20 week scan that told us he was a boy!

I had to have another scan just a few days ago, and it is DEFINATELY a wee boy. :o)

I think it is possible for the sonographers to get it wrong, and it sounds like it happens with reasonable frequency (more so with girls than boys). But, from what I have googled, there have been quite a few studies done on the heart rate theory that are completely inconclusive. I think it is an old wives tale personally.... although it had me worried for a while when I looked at all the blue stuff I had gone out and bought!!!

Edited to add that at times our boys heartrate has been up at 180 beats per minute - supposedly girl heart rate territory, and has never been below 150bpm.

Edited by kiwilaurie