Your belly looks round like a basketball, so you must be having a boy. Yes, you haven’t gained weight anywhere but your belly, which means it’s a boy. Your belly sticks out really far, and that means you’re going to have a girl. Girls take away all your beauty, and you’re not looking too hot. There must be a girl inside there.
Those are just a few of the plethora of statements I heard while I was pregnant. My husband and I decided to not find out what we were having. But after being subjected to all of those strange wives’ tales for nine months straight, I would have gladly rewound time to know what a sonographer could have told me regarding our baby’s gender.
According to OB-GYN Natan Haratz-Rubinstein on the BabyCenter Web site, by 18 to 20 weeks, your practitioner or technician may be able to identify your baby’s gender during an ultrasound, if your baby sits still. In addition, he or she has to be in a position that allows the technician to see the baby’s genitals. Then even if the technician gets a good view of the baby’s genital area, the image may be blurry.
According to Haratz-Rubinstein, “the more experienced the sonographer and the higher the quality of the sonogram machine, the more likely you are to get an accurate assessment. But even the best sonographers can’t usually guarantee whether it’s a girl or a boy.”
Some expecting parents opt to wait to find out their baby’s sex. And understandably so. Many a family have purchased a crib, girlie bedding, pink bassinet, dresses, frilly panties, dolls, hair bows, everything they could possibly want for the little girl they were promised. Then comes labor, and it’s a boy!
But other parents decide to find out their child’s gender so that they can be prepared, also an understandable decision. If a technician is 99 percent sure of the baby’s sex, then purchasing all the necessities and perhaps some extras can bring great joy and increased anticipation.
By the way, I had a girl.
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