What Were You Declared Pre-Birth?

[Da Monkey]

When your mom was pregnant with you, what did the doctor tell her she was going to have?

I am only just curious, not trying to link it to anything scientific really.

I know I've told this before, but when my mom was pregnant with me and my sister, the doctor told her she was having twin boys. Then said they think one is a girl, but the other is for sure a boy. Then she had both of us at 27 weeks. My mom made a joke when she tells the story now and says "... and then 20 years later 'it's a boy!'"

I had a theory when I was a child that if I was in her womb longer I would have been born right. But then I learned about sex-ed and that blew it up in my face.

I just think it's really funny and would be interesting to see if that happened to anyone else.

[kyril]

Boy.

My mom was low-income at the time and a DIYer, so while she was pregnant she sewed dozens and dozens of little blue and red and green baby outfits, in sizes birth to age 2. Obviously there was no returning them when I was born, so I wore them.

She tried to overcompensate after and made me a bunch of little dresses as well. But I liked the adorable little velvet overalls and sweatsuits so much more...I look like a boy in all my baby pictures.

[Constance]

I was born in 1969.

Based on the way my mom was carrying me, and based on measurements taken with a measuring tape, they assured her I would be a girl.

These "diagnoses" seemed somewhat unscientific even when my mom told me about this in the late '70's-early-'80's.

[Robert Scott]

My mother was told she was having a boy ... they had my whole room decorated .. then when I came out and was a girl they were shocked.  My dad went home and painted my room pink that night - back in the day when women were kept in the hospital 3-4 days.  He surprised my mom.


Off the topic what is DIY?  I have seen it in several other posts and I don't know what it means.

[Michael Joseph]

My mom wanted to be surprised. But, when i was born my head was the first thing out and my dads first words were, "what a beautiful baby boy." I found that kind of funny.

[Renard]

Off the topic what is DIY?  I have seen it in several other posts and I don't know what it means.

DIY = "Do it yourself"

My mom always told me she was sure she'd have one boy and one girl - and seeing as I have a (much) older brother, she 'knew' I would be a girl. Although she did have both a male and  'female' name picked out for me. Both, amusingly enough, are technically male names.

The doctors only said they thought I would be developmentally delayed, or have some sort of learning disorder, because of my mom's age: she was 32 or so when she had me, and this was back in the early nineties, so ... yeah x3 Thankfully that wasn't the case. I know a few developmental disorders have been correlated with testosterone, but I've never really asked my mom if that had anything to do with it.

[umop ap!sdn]

My mother was sure she would be having a boy. Then I had to play along for 23 years....

[alia]

Girl. They didn't even have a boy name picked out. They were thinking of naming my Summer Robin Richardson, but then when I popped out with decidedly male junk, my Mom screamed out R*** W***** R*********N (my legal name. Though not for long). fun.

[Da Monkey]

kyril: I'm jealous you have baby pictures of yourself dressed as a boy. That is one thing I often wonder when I have kids of my own growing up I won't have any pictures to show them of me growing up.

rob: my parents did the same thing. They had all blue things and blue walls waiting for us. But we were kept in the hospital on for three months so they waited until they had an idea if we were going to make it or not to change everything to pink girl stuff. since it would have been hard to change it all and then get bad news.

alia: It's interesting to think about. If I my sister and I were born boys we were going to be named Adam and Allan. People often wondered why I didn't pick one of those names while coming out. My sister had already dated an Adam who I ended up going to college with when I was coming out (and we were friends at the time) and my uncles name is Allen, I had to people associated with the name so I couldn't make it identify with me. Do you go by Summer now or did you pick a different name?

[PixieBoy]

I was born WAY too early and weighed only 1.3 pounds at birth. There's some minor difference between boys' and girls' immune system or something, so if I had been born a boy, I would have died. Very ironic, no? My parents have told me that I had to be hooked up to lots of machinery, and that every time they went to visit me in the hospital, something would start beeping and a nurse would run up and try and fix it. The first thing I saw of the world outside the hospital was a jousting performance (medieval knights; imagine something slightly similar to a renaissance fair, but with jousting and knights). The boy's names they had picked out for me were really stupid, so I'm glad I picked Elias. Still, I feel attached to my old name somewhat, as it is a very unusual name and I've never ever met anyone else with it. There are many named Elias, however...

[Da Monkey]

How many weeks were you born at? I guess it's not that unusual for me since I was a twin though towards the end of my moms pregnancy one of us started to get bigger. We had an umbilical  cord that was attached to each other then in the middle of it it branched out and attached to the uterus but for some reason one of us started to take more nutrients in. We were born 2 pounds each but shortly after one of us was dying faster dropping to about 1.x pounds. I really couldn't tell you which one of us that was though hahah.

[NightWing]

My mom wanted to be surprised. But, when i was born my head was the first thing out and my dads first words were, "what a beautiful baby boy." I found that kind of funny.

Pretty much the same here.  Dad thought I was a boy until the doctors corrected him.  Apparently baby's genetelia is swollen and all babies pretty much look like guys at first.

[Nygeel]

My parents didn't want to know, but they thought I was going to be a boy. Little did they know I actually was.

[GinaDouglas]

My mother decided to name me after a woman, before she knew what gender I was.

[PixieBoy]

I don't know exactly how early I was born, just that it was very early. Also, I was so tiny that I'd grab my mother's earrings and tug them a little when I wanted her attention; I grabbed them with my entire hand!

[xAndrewx]

Boy but my mom hoped and prayed for a girl. Even my hospital certificate has my sex listed as a boy then a line through it with girl written next to it. Oddly enough I was also born about 2 months early and really tiny hooked up to machines like Elias.

[Nathan.]

My mum wanted to be surprised but loads of people told her she was having a boy from the way she was carrying me. She told me that when they handed me to her in a pink blanket she was very surprised at how modern they were putting a boy in pink 

[kate durcal]

G-d gift !!!

<3
Kate

[rexgsd]

well, they must have not done one of those things where you can tell before its born, but apparently when i actually was born (c-section btw =p) they thought i was a guy XD
don't know exactly how you can get that wrong by physically seeing the parts but im not complaning haha
besides, they were deadheads so i guess that excuses them

[Michelle.]

One lucky bastard. I'm adopted.