I'm 38w5d today and went in for my weekly checkup. my usual doc was called into surgery, so they had a midwife in the practice (and her intern) do my checkup.
At 2 different times each referred to my baby using a gender specific pronoun.
Could be a coincidence, right? I'm trying to decide whether to mention it to DH since we were both looking forward to the surprise. Wets?
Post by estrellita on Jan 28, 2015 17:00:03 GMT -5
Huh. My doctor asks me every time if we know what he is, lol. She said she also doesn't even look unless we bring it up. Maybe they thought you said he/she and followed suit? Odd.
Could be a coincidence--especially if it was "he" because I feel like that is the default pronoun. I wouldn't mention it to your H unless you really think he'd want to know, particularly because you may not actually know.
My doctor has referred to my baby girl as a boy before just because he got mixed up (made the comment atm he has more patients having boys and was surprised when we found out we were having a girl). Point being, I wouldn't think anything of it.
I wouldn't worry about it. A good friend of mine was team green and their last appointment -so similar timing to yours - the doctor they saw referred to the baby as "her." They were really sad to already know, but went home and washed all of their baby girl things from their first daughter and figured at least they were ready. Well, turns out it was a boy and they still got a giant surprise!
yea, I have a hard time calling a baby "it." I'm calling mine "it" or "the baby" right now because I refuse to use a pronoun and mentally set myself up for one or the other, but I don't like it. my whole family is using "she/her" though. :-\
and like someone else said, if a doctor/nurse has had several patients in a row with one gender, then they kinda fall into a habit of saying that. I might be taking care of 4 boy babies and 1 girl baby, and I'd call the girl "he" accidentally and it's usually just a slip of the tongue.
Probably nothing in it, I wouldn't worry. My sisters were joking around about how the baby will need a Twitter account. Now instead of he, she, or it, everyone is calling it "tweetus the fetus". So that is an option :-p