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It would be nice to be able to tell family but it would really suck boodie if they can't see by week 18...

My doctor was able to us the gender at 16 weeks, but we did not get an anatomy scan until 20 weeks. At 20 weeks the baby has developed enough that the docs are more likely to catch any possible issues or abnormalities, as @Msmini said...

I would wait. I was paranoid enough that they were wrong at 20,I would be even more paranoid if it were earlier.

I would wait. Because my hospital scheduled my first anatomy scan at 19 weeks and the baby wasnt very cooperative but at 22 weeks when i went back it was huge difference in how clear everything was on the screen and the baby was in a better position. In your case I would wait till 20 weeks.

My anatomy scan was at 18 w, 5 days (because that is when my doctor's office schedules them...) and we saw it was unquestionably a boy. We had another ultrasound later b/c of an issue, and they confirmed again boy

I went in for an ultrascan at 13 weeks and we found out then. Our tech said she was 95% certain he was a boy....and she was right!

My first u/s was at 17 weeks and the tech said she didn't think she would be able to tell the gender that early, that it was better at 20 weeks, HOWEVER she was able to tell the gender (it was clear he was a boy. I even knew it WAY before she got to that part of the u/s) and at our 20 week u/s DS was not behaving with the tech and she could not tell.

If we hadn't asked at the first u/s we wouldn't have known at our 20 week anyway. I think it just depends on the techs patients level and how cooperative your baby is for success.