uncommon hebrew name w/o "ch"

amother

Wed, Apr 23 2014, 7:00 pm

Mazal tov!

I'm so "nervous" that this will happen to us--as in, I don't really care about gender one way or another, but would not want the surprise of thinking about the baby as a "he" for 4.5 months only to find out that he's a she...

Was the gender obvious on the two ultrasounds you had?

amother

Wed, Apr 23 2014, 11:16 pm

finprof wrote:

well, 2 ultrasounds got it wrong, we welcomed a baby girl this morning!

HEY! first of all mazal tov! Secondly, how did that happen, they thought they saw a pen!s, but it wasnt one?! I wonder how often that happens! Wow! Does this mean that I can still dream of a girly? I have been blessed with a wonderful bundle of sons, and no daughters. I just had my twenty week ultrasound, they said it is anther boy! So , should I believ them?!

amother

Thu, Apr 24 2014, 4:48 am

amother wrote:

That's exactly why we did not find out the gender of our first child. I didn0t mind if it was a boy or a girl but I didn't want to spend 5 minths thinking of it as one when it was the other!

When I gave Birth though, I felt it would have been easier to bond with my baby if I had known she was a girl. I was just thinking of "a baby."

So now that I'm pregnant again, we are thinking of finding out the gender in advance. We hadn't really decided whether to or not but at the 12 week scan they asked if we want to know and we said yes! So she scanned the baby's bottom and said it looks like a girl. I was pleased because I as hoping for a girl (and thought it would be a boy because the pregnancy had been very different) but right at the end of the scan she said "oh, from the side it looks like a boy!"

I wish I hadn't asked now. I know they can't really tell at 12 weeks and for a few minutes I got my hopes up that it was a girl and now I'm back to not knowing. I don't know what we'll do at the next scan.

amother

Thu, Apr 24 2014, 7:32 am

I also had 2 ultrasounds showing a boy, and MIL bought all the clothes already, I'll bet!

I heard it can sometimes happen the opposite way, they say it's a girl, but really they "missed it" and it was a boy, but to think it's a boy and it turns out to be a girl?? On two ultrasounds??

It's just funny how we think we run the world....

How about the name Odelia? Or Eliana?

amother

Thu, Apr 24 2014, 9:13 am

amother wrote:

I heard it can sometimes happen the opposite way, they say it's a girl, but really they "missed it" and it was a boy, but to think it's a boy and it turns out to be a girl?? On two ultrasounds??

I think it is more common that if a mistake is made, it is a boy mistaken for a girl. This happens especially if the technician is looking for "boy parts or lack of boy parts" rather than "boy parts or girl parts."

I know of two families who were told they were expecting twin boys but ended up delivering TRIPLET girls! One of the families already had 7 daughters!

finprof

Thu, Apr 24 2014, 10:39 am

We named her Orliana Maayan. Dh didn't want to know the relations so he stayed home w/ our son when I went for my 20 week scan (@week 24). The admitted that they weren't sure it was a boy but 95%. The second scan was around week 32 but that was just an in office scan. Either was I'm happy, but now my mom has a little granddaughter to dress up!