made it to 12 weeks - yipeeeee

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yes next one is at 20 weeks - we were hoping to find out - I am not the most patient person in the world - but the hospital we are ats policy is not to look for the sex of the baby - so don't know if we will get to find out before bubs is born - although we have spoken about doing a 3d/4d scan so would hopefully find out then

[Jojo]

That would be amazing - a 3d/4d scan!!

I'm not patient either - almost hated not knowing what liam was till he arrived lol.

I know a lot of hospitals wont say, in case of people suing them etc if they are wrong.

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we get so many scans due to the diabetes - I get on every 4 weeks towards the end to check for growth - so I get to know the scanners really well so I am hoping that they might let it slip or at least let me see so I can make up my own mind

I think that it is silly people would sue the hospitals they always tell you that they cant be 100% sure

[Jojo]

It annoys me - when I was pregnant, I used to look up scan pics on the net of different stages (sad i know lol) and there were ones where it showed you a scan of a boy and of a girl - theres no way i could have told the difference. Its surprising how similar they are at 20 weeks. I remember with Ciaran, even though it was extremely clear he was a boy, the sonographer still said 90% and said that they had had a lot of people putting in complaints because they were wrong.

Is the diabetes going ok? Have you still got it under control?

[Chloe O'brien]

My bumb stop growing at 30 weeks so I had to attend the hospital everyweek to have a scan to check that Marley was growing properly but we were unable to tell what sex she was as she was lying on her side.

[Jojo]

We had a scan at 32 weeks with Liam as they thought he was too big and they said the later on in pregnancy you are, the harder to tell the sex apparently...

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we had a perfect "money" shot with christopher - you could clearly see all the boy parts - and the same happened with Sarah - with little girls early on you are looking for 3 white lines

I guess we are set no matter what we have since we have 1 of each already

the diabetes will never be undercontrol as my requirements change so much through the pregnancy - but I am coping with it - just means I have to make sure I have chocolate in my handbag all the time and am careful to have snacks through the day to keep my sugars stable