When you think it's wrong results

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Just got our panorama test call from the OBGYN on Thursday. Said we're have a boy. This will be boy #3. We were so sure this one was a girl....We are pretty sad since we said this is our last try. I'm still in denial....My gut said girl, my dreams were girl (which I drempt boy with my last 2), Ramzi method said girl, everything is so different about this pregnancy. I'm PRAYING they got the test wrong, or that they got the XY from our 16 month old. Sorry for the rant. I just feel like I've lost a life goal. And the fact that I've wanted a daughter since I was 3 years old. 😢

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They say if the results show boy then its 99% accurate. So I doubt it's wrong... I'm sorry you feel disappointed, my husband was the same way. There has not been a girl in his family for 2 generations and we are the youngest ones left of our generation that are still having kids.... Our first child was a girl, but she was stillborn.... I'm pregnant with our 2nd and DH was so hopeful for another girl... at our ultrasound at 16 weeks my Dr. guessed girl, but the blood test came back as a boy and another ultrasound at 20 weeks was obviously a boy.... DH was very bitter about it for a while. Saying things like "go figure, the one that died and we don't get to keep would be the only girl we will ever get". Its been a few weeks and he has embraced the idea of having a son but I know it still hurts. We may try 1 more time after this but we aren't sure yet. Try not to dwell on it too much... healthy, happy, living baby is our goal, I don't care what gender it is! ☺

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You might be me. I had this same experience, almost to the T. Except our son was 4 months at the time. My husband and I didn't want any kids after our first born and we got pregnant (on protection, mind you) the only time we had sex after our son was born. The only reason I had the panorama done was because I knew I was going to be devastated with another boy...I was already mentally struggling with having a second baby but I thought "if it was a girl at least it would be a slightly different experience." When they called and said boy, I had to clarify and ask if she was sure. I asked the nurses at my OB checkups between when the results came and when the anatomy scan happened. And even at the anatomy scan, I still had that last little peanut of hope that it would be a girl. I cried for about an hour after the anatomy scan because of course it confirmed what the chromosome test already told us. I'm fine now, I don't have much choice about it. And there are a lot of pluses to having two boys. But we're not having any more, not biologically, so it's difficult to accept that I'll never have a little mini-me. But still, gender disappointment is the real deal. I feel for you.

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