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We are Team Green for the second time. At both anatomy scans the tech told us to look away but I had some additional ultrasounds later in my first pregnancy where I watched the screen but still couldn't tell.

My Dad was in the room for our most recent ultrasound (we had an extra one due to the baby not cooperating) and he watched the screen even when the tech said to look away and couldn't see anything.

I’ve been team green twice now. Both times they gave us the option to look away, and we did. The first time I thought why made a mistake and forgot to tell me to look away for a portion, bu it was wrong in what it made me think. This time the doctor told me he wasn’t even going to look, he might be able to tell or might not, but it’s not a critical part that hey look for to make sure everything is ok unless parents want to know. They do have to look at the kidneys which is when it might be visible. But st 20 weeks I think most laymen wouldn’t be able to tell anyway, honestly. I know I wouldn’t!

Or maybe it was the wrong position and she was able to skip it! Who knows!

Team green with our first and I think she told us to look away? We found out with our second and even staring right at it I had no idea what I was looking at or for. But I had two girls, so possibly it’s more obvious when it’s a boy.

For both my kids they told us to look away and we did and in subsequent scans I think they told me to look away, but at a certain point the baby was too big and it would have been hard to see. Also, I’m really bad at interpreting ultrasounds so I probably wouldn’t have been able to tell!

US tech here, if a patient tells me they don't want to know, I don't even look at the sex (unless it looks like theres a medical need to). But I will usually tell mom and fam to look away while I'm scanning in the general area.
Haven't ever been team green, but I love living vicariously through the moms that I scan and imagining a delivery room surprise! So fun!

@LindsayInNY: sometimes cord between the legs can fake people out and look like the 3 lines of girl parts.

@LindsayInNY: we weren’t TG but wanted to wait and find out the news with our son after the AS so had the sonographer put it in an envelope. She had us look away and sealed the envelope without us knowing at all. They’re total pros, and do it all the time! She warned us they use male pronouns as a standard so kept saying “he/him.” I’m holding my little girl so proof that she was poker-faced and professional!

Team green twice, our normal tech told us to look away but at a subsequent scan to check on the kidneys, the new tech forgot to tell us not to look.

"I'm so sorry, did you see anything?!"
"Uh, yeah, sure I saw something, but I have no idea what I saw, so we're good!"

One tech wrote it down on our file, my second did not. So my first doctor kept joking around about accidentally telling us. The second one just kept guessing what it would be based on behavior at each appt.

We were never team green, but by the time we were pregnant with our third girl, we were both relatively certain (and correct) about what we were seeing (three lines) at our elective scan to determine the sex. To be fair, though, I had an ultrasound every visit with my first two pregnancies, so we’ve probably looked at more than your average non-OB/non-ultrasound tech.

Our tech for that scan also confirmed what @MrsRoo: said about the cord...she had me rolling all around to get DD3 to move because her cord was between her legs and she wanted to be sure of what she was seeing.

I wasn’t team green with any of mine, but I would have only figured it out with one of mine. My 2nd boy gave a few good shots that couldn’t be missed.