Gender report
"Ross and I did not find out Bucky's gender at our last appointment. Though Ross wants to know, he's being very patient about it.
We had a few moments of fear that the ultrasound technician had slipped up. She kept saying 'he,' but would then say 'the baby,' so I think the 'he' was a result of our saying 'he... or she' and because it's sometimes hard to talk in a non-gendered way -- saying only 'the baby' all the time. We don't think the technician was giving away any secrets. As far as we all know -- it's not definitely a boy.
Nor is it definitely a girl, as we suspected when we saw the organ check list. There was a box for gender, and it had some notes written in it. We feared that the beans had been spilled, but when we asked our doctor at the monthly appointment, she said 'Oh, no. Those are notes about Clare.' The doctor also confirmed that if you ask not to know the gender, the technician doesn't make a note of the gender so the surprise will continue to be a surprise."
--Clare, 9/21/05
We had a few moments of fear that the ultrasound technician had slipped up. She kept saying 'he,' but would then say 'the baby,' so I think the 'he' was a result of our saying 'he... or she' and because it's sometimes hard to talk in a non-gendered way -- saying only 'the baby' all the time. We don't think the technician was giving away any secrets. As far as we all know -- it's not definitely a boy.
Nor is it definitely a girl, as we suspected when we saw the organ check list. There was a box for gender, and it had some notes written in it. We feared that the beans had been spilled, but when we asked our doctor at the monthly appointment, she said 'Oh, no. Those are notes about Clare.' The doctor also confirmed that if you ask not to know the gender, the technician doesn't make a note of the gender so the surprise will continue to be a surprise."
--Clare, 9/21/05
posted by RB at 11:56 AM
2 Comments:
I'm a little bit confused about why the technician would make notes about your gender, Clare.
Isn't it obvious (since you're about to have a baby) that you're a girl?
The notes were about one of my internal organs used in giving birth (thus a female only organ). The technician just happened to use the gender box to make said note since it wasn't being used to indicate whether Bucky is male or female.
Does that help.
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