how reliable is the ultrasound where the doctor tells you if your baby is a boy or a girl? are they ever wrong

Question

how often are they wrong?

Answer 1

The ultrasound machine itself is extremely reliable. In the simplest terms, it's just taking a picture/video. The person reading it could make a mistake. Typically, if there is a mistake they will tell you it's a girl and it turns out to be a boy, not always but the percentages are higher. This is because of the angle and positioning of the baby at the time the ultrasound is being performed. If they tell you it's a boy, they are usually correct. The is more "physical evidence", if you know what I mean.

Answer 2

Well the tests are 99.8% accurate, the only way the test can be wrong is if the baby is laying upside down at the time of the ultrasound, with them standing upside down sometimes it can look like the child has a penis and all it is, is the way the baby is in the fetus and it winds up being a girl.

Its why its a good idea to take 2 ultra sounds.

I know this to be a reliable source because my mother does this for a living.

Answer 3

Unless the technician or doctor can visualize between the legs, ultrasounds are faulty. Sometimes a penis is very visible and the tech. or doctor can tell you for sure. Only an amniocentesis is 100% reliable in determining the sex of a fetus.

I was told my middle child was a girl from the ultrasound at 20 weeks - weren't we surprised when we had a Jason, not a Justine??!! We had done a whole pink motif in the room - ugh!!! (But, we were able to use a lot of the pink things for our youngest!)

Good luck!

Answer 4

relies upon on how ur toddler is placed. They gave me an ultrasound around sixteen weeks and mentioned it gave the impression of a boy. Then yet another around 20 weeks and it gave the impression to be a woman, inspite of the reality that i had genetic finding out completed and had already standard it replaced right into a woman considering the fact that i replaced into 11 weeks. So the 2nd time around replaced into good. inspite of the reality that on 4D sonograms u can needless to say tell what gender.

Answer 5

I was told at 5 months I was having a girl. Then at about 8 months the baby turned out to be a boy. I think it depends on how far long the mother is in her pregnancy. And how clearly the ulrasound can be seen.

Answer 6

They are pretty relieable. But the best way to go is to let it be a surprise. That leaves gifts to buy personal and you know. The ultrasounds are left just to make sure the baby is ok. But leave the sex a mystery.

Answer 7

Its pretty reliable, I'd guess its about a 90% chance. As for the ultrasound, its completely harmless because it uses high-frequency sound waves that humans can't hear.

Answer 8

when i was pregnant with my son they knew wrate away that he was a boy because they could see his parts pretty good, i am pregnant again and i had a ultra sound and they cant tell, the baby was covering its parts but they said they think its a girl.... but not 100%. most of the time they are right, sometimes they are not sure. it depends on the baby.

Answer 9

If you go in telling them that you prefer one over the other, boy or girl, with my experience, alot of them will say they can't tell, just so you aren't disappointed for the rest of you pregnancy. But otherwise they know what they are seeing.

Answer 10

98%...... why cause for all my 4 pregancy they hit it on the money, and for my sister-in-law from 3 , the were wrong on 1, told her it was a girl and Izeah is a boy.