No US till 16wks

Cilla
So I went to my 1st dr appt today. I am 5wks and 2 days. We did family history and of course the dreaded papsmear 😢well the OB informed me that they don't give US till 15-16wks when we find out the gender......personally that's way to far off to me. Has anyone else gone through that? Is that normal? What if there is something wrong how would he even detect it? I'm so confused. I'm ready to just switch to another Dr 😞