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Topic: Uber cool! Who knew? Posted: 24 January 2011 at 3:48pm |
I had a scan on Friday - measuring 11w4d, and I nearly fell off my chair when my OB asked if I wanted to know what baby was? Apparently I'm not allowed to hold him to it  but he said it looks like a girl. He explained how he tell - something or other points up if it's a boy and something or other points down if it's a girl.
I had no IDEA they could tell that early! Maybe he's just seen loooooots of babies on scans - a good thing with an OB of course
Anyway - Had to share! I'm not collecting anything girly till I know for sure though - just in case!
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Posted: 24 January 2011 at 3:54pm |
I  the world of pink, and huge congrats to you ginger
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Posted: 24 January 2011 at 3:59pm |
Woohoo huge congrats Ginger! Glad all is going well and you have a probably pink one in there!
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Posted: 24 January 2011 at 4:02pm |
Very cool! The joys of having an experience OB, huh?
I enjoyed your blog update too, very funny (someone from OB linked to it once, and I found it very encouraging while we were going through the fertility treatment stuff).
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Posted: 24 January 2011 at 4:14pm |
congrats ginger very exciting!
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Posted: 24 January 2011 at 4:48pm |
Yay, so you've almost got the baby you 'ordered' last year, now we just have to wait and see if its another wee ginger or not
If they can get a good enough potty shot (side-on apparently is best, zooming in past one leg), theres a theory called 'the angle of the dangle' which can predict baby's gender. Helps if you get a sonographer willing to have a go, mine just brushed me off and didnt even bother trying to look! Theres a website called in-gender.com that has a forum where trained sonographers will look at scan pics and try and pick gender from what the pics show.
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Posted: 24 January 2011 at 5:29pm |
*like*like*like
We can compare notes....
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Posted: 24 January 2011 at 6:58pm |
Aww that's so cool!! I had an OB last pregnancy and he wouldn't tell me till 18wks that he thought it was a girl, so that is very efficient
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Posted: 24 January 2011 at 7:22pm |
congrats chick.. :) 2 ginger boys aren't all bad though *cough cough* :)
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Posted: 24 January 2011 at 11:26pm |
Awww *like* a lot  Congrats
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Posted: 25 January 2011 at 8:33am |
Oh wow Ginger! Congrats! I didnt know there was another on the way...only just getting back into OB myself.
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Posted: 25 January 2011 at 11:06am |
Thanks everyone  It's finally starting to settle in that we have another one on the way  This natural pregnancy business can take you quite unawares huh?
I wasn't too worried about having either a boy or girl, although a girl gives me hope that we'll have a bit of a different first year to the one we had with Cuinn, which was generally dreadful, but I was absolutely fascinated that they could take an educated punt that early in the pregnancy as to the sex of the baby!  Not that I mind
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Posted: 25 January 2011 at 1:10pm |
congrats on your news of maybe a pink one
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Posted: 25 January 2011 at 1:45pm |
Exciting! We were told at 12 weeks C was a boy, the sonographer said off the record she would take an educated guess, she was right  and when she pointed it out it actually was quite obvious! lol
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Posted: 25 January 2011 at 4:00pm |
Oooh! Mrs B! *looks pointedly at ticker*
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Posted: 25 January 2011 at 4:06pm |
I had an ob scan me for my 12 week scan and he guessed girl and got it right
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Posted: 25 January 2011 at 4:44pm |
ginger wrote:
Oooh! Mrs B! *looks pointedly at ticker*  |
Shhhh it's a secret!  lol
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Posted: 25 January 2011 at 5:36pm |
Congratulations on the ... erm ... nice weather then?
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Cuinn Lachlan 23.1.09 - 22:00
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