GENITAL TUBERCLE ANGLE
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pictures copied from: http://www.baby2see.com/gender/study_ultrasound.html
I've heard of this method only once before. A girl I drill with had asked me how to make a boy, so I told her about the Shettles Method and they had been trying for a few months already using OPK's. Her first cycle after telling her about Shettles, she got pregnant. With two girls already, they were anxious to know, were they having a boy or a girl? They had an ultrasound at something like 14 weeks and they were told they were most likely having a 3rd girl. As an OB nurse, I'd always been told you can not tell for sure until as EARLY at 16 weeks and more assuredly 18 weeks or later. So what did she mean they could tell her she was already having another girl?
She called it an "angle" of some kind. So, my crazy self got on google and googled all I could about this gender predicting angle! I was surprised what I found. It's called the Genital Tubercle Angle and you can read more about it here, or here, or here.
So... I have a confession. We had our 13 week ultrasound with Chubby. And while I don't want to KNOW, I wanted to know, did we have a picture of our baby's tubercle or nub??? I think we might!... there are forums you can post your picture and get people's opinions, but I refuse to do that so that it is only my subjective speculation at this point. Joe has not analyzed the pictures either. He maintains Team Girl of his own speculations comparing this pregnancy to my pregnancy with Lincoln.
Now, the pictures we have are NOT distinct like the pictures above. Our ultrasound tech knows we don't want to know but she told us she would never tell parents this early because in her experience it remains 50/50%. So, she may have been selective about the pictures she gave us knowing we know of this method. But, she also already told us that since we already have a boy, we only have about at 25% of having a girl this time... which, I don't really believe. InGender gives some statistics on that idea. I understand for families who conceive using the same method every time, their chances are skewed towards a baby of the same gender. But, this time, Joe and I were aiming for any conception at all, so our chances are likely that of nature, being 51/49.
You don't get to see them and I will not tell you what I think either. You have to wait until after the baby is born and then I will post it all and we will see if it was right or wrong.
As I understand, the girl I drilled with did indeed have a 3rd girl. Have you heard of this before? Did you get a picture of your 11-14 week baby with a gender prediction? Was it right?
