Gender

At my 12 week appointment, we were talking with the doctor about my upcoming NT scan.  I told her I read online that if the baby is cooperating that sometimes gender can be detected, even as early as the 13 weeks I was going in.  She said it was true, if the baby cooperated and if the ultrasonographer was comfortable interpreting the goods, that the gender could be determined and if we wanted to know, then they’d tell us.  I made it clear that we very much wanted to know when we were in there yesterday.  The tech made sure to tell us that she usually doesn’t do this but while we were waiting for the baby to cooperate for the neck measuring portion, she peeked between the legs and did see *something*.  She said that she wasn’t going to say out loud what she thought it was but that she’d never seen anything dangle quite like that between a girls legs before and that she couldn’t find the three tell-tale lines that would otherwise indicate girl.  While all of the pictures for the hospital were labeled and she put “Boy???” on that one, ours aren’t.  We did get one of the copies, but it’s still hard for us to tell for sure.  She said we shouldn’t go painting any nurseries but that’s what she saw.  When the perinatologist came in, he was even more hesitant to determine gender.  I don’t see why they can’t just give a guess.  It’s not like someone can sue them because they *guessed* the wrong sex.  Or can they? 

So along with the ultrasound yesterday and almost everyone swearing it’s a boy, we’re pretty sure it’s a boy too.  As of yesterday, Justin and Robin were still maintaining it was a girl, and I guess we won’t know for sure until 18-20 weeks at my next ultrasound but now little Jude is going to have a playmate instead of a girlfriend.  :)  Or we hope.  It seems like everything is going by so slowly.  I’m hoping we can do the ultrasound at 18 weeks and won’t have to wait until our regularly scheduled 20 week appointment.  I.  Need.  To.  Know.