How do doctors keep mistaking the wrong gender?

[Anonymous]

Can they be sued or is it just an educated guess? The docs told my mom she was having a boy but she had a girl instead. They bought all sorts of blue stuff and boy clothes in preparation. When she gave birth, they were surprised to get a girl instead. They already had a boy name picked out for me, thus explaining whats now my middle name. A lot of my classmates parents were told the opposite as well. I honestly wouldn't even do a gender reveal party because its likely to be misleading. I rather just find out when I give birth and i’ll decorate the nursery with neutral colors like pastel yellow. My babys name is unisex anyways.

The docs told us wrong too

The docs got it right with us

[Lucy68]

According to my mother I was supposed to be a boy. Mom had name, clothes, and everything boy already picked out. Well jn late July of 1997 (I was 4 weeks early) mom had the biggest surprise that day, instead of a little baby boy she had a little baby girl. According to mom the doctors thought I was going to be a boy cause every time she went to her ultrasound appointments they would only see my butt and just assumed.

[Asker]

Whoa they assume by just the butt lol

[SnakeBoop]

Its never stated as a "fact". Its a guess.
To my mom, i was meant to be a boy.
Both my kids were said to be boys, and were.
Up to the parents if they want to take the potential risk of the gender not being what was guessed and buy gender specific clothing.

[Asker]

Yea i figured it couldnt have been

[Cubus]

It's hard to recognise a boy, because the indicator is if he has penis, between his legs. But ultrasound is quite blurry, so something MIGHT look like a penis, but not be. It's obscured, so in earlier parts of pregnancy there's no 100% sure, it may be just some blur. With girls it's much easier. If the ultrasound shows that she has nothing between legs, then you're 100% it's a girl, it can't be a boy.

[Asker]

I had nothing between my legs and every ultra sound throughout the pregnancy, they continued to tell her she was having a boy

[Cubus]

Like I said: there was probably some blur on the ultrasound that just looked like a penis, but was not. It can fool even best doctors.

[Anonymous]

First I've heard of this. Do they give any reasons why they were wrong? I don't have any children, but if this was the case, then we're buying the stuff when he/she is born I guess lol. The gender specific things anyway. Lots of things can be for either.

[Asker]

No we just all discussed in class how the docs gave the wrong gender. Even if you google it, it said something about 1 out of 10 parents are told the wrong thing. Like whoa.

[Opinion Owner]

Interesting. Well the pictures don't look very clear sometimes, so I guess "mistakes" are possible? lol

[Astarlessnightsky]

Sometimes you just don't see the penis on an ultrasound image, thats it.

If you bought things in blue, let the daughter wear blue, no one cares and the baby will be too big to wear them really soon, so you have to buy new clothes anyway.

[Asker]

Im saying that i was a girl so of course there was no penis to see

[Astarlessnightsky]

I don't know how common it is to mistake a girl for a boy,... but i think there is at least a chance, to see something and mistake it for a penis.

The ultrasound images are still really rough and even doctors who look at them on a daily basis may make mistakes when looking at them.

And not identifying the sex correctly is a really minor mistake, it doesn't mean any harm to the mother or the child.

[AviatorTom]

From ultrasounds, we had a rough idea what the sex was going to be. But as the doctor, nurse, and ultrasound technician all told us, sometimes the ultrasound can't see everything clearly. The thing you think is an arm might be a penis, or vice versa.

[Asker]

Oh wow

[exitseven]

When we had our kids there was no ultrasound. My wife's grandfather told us what we would get and he went 3 for 3.

[Asker]

Whoa who is this man? I need him

[exitseven]

he passed away many years ago. He was 96. He said he could tell the sex by how high the mother was carrying the baby.

[Asker]

thats amazing. May he rest in peace

[SnakeBoop]

just to add, that lots of folks will try to use that as a gendering system. the dude was lucky to guess 3 times. but it has no bearing and is not a method that is reliable.

[exitseven]

@SnakeBoop I did not really think it was reliable either but it made her grandfather happy about being part of the process and it makes a good story.

[SnakeBoop]

oh for sure! i didn't think you specifically believed it, but some people will read it and take that as a gospel truth is all

[Flower7]

To my knowledge, predicting the gender wrong is not a common thing.

[Asker]

Google it. Its common. Apparently 1 in 10

[Flower7]

I’ve never known anyone that this happened to. I believe my personal experience more than Google.

[Asker]

And i believe all my classmates whose parents experienced the same

[notwoke]

because knowing what's in a womans belly without cutting her open is hard and not a perfect process. If your so dissatisfied do it yourself next time.

[Asker]

No need to be rude. You must be one of the docs who fucked someone over

[notwoke]

IM not being rude and Im not a doctor, but the world isn't perfect

[Twalli]

They knew for both me and my sister, I think most doctors get it right.

[Asker]

Apparently 1 in 10 dont

[Twalli]

So 90% success is still pretty high.

[Anonymous]

There is no way to be 100% accurate in pre-birth gender identification. And no, you can't sue the clinician.

[Asker]

Okay

[In_Trance]

So American...

[Asker]

What happens in other places