when can you find out

[CrystalBrooke]

im close to 3 months, and im a terribly impatient person, and i was wondering when you could find out what it is...i know i cant find out now, but i want to find out as soon as i can. i aslo have to write a personal narrative for my Sr. portfolio and im wanting to write it about being a pregnant teen, and if i could find out what it is before i write it i could title it "Waiting on Taylor", or Clayton...depending on what the sex is.

 

[Princessperky]

It depends on your baby, I had a US for DD and still didn't know what she was, though DS told me she was a girl, so we were pretty confidant. (if you can't see anything interesting in the US it is often a girl)

This time we got a 'money shot' so we know it is a boy, but there is still a chance the US is wrong. I was 19 weeks this time.

I think your baby shows the outside signs around 4 months, not sure which week of it though.

 

[Leanna]

Yeah 4-5 months is the average. When they tell you your next appointment is the ultrasound, that's when you find out. Maybe week 18-21 I think. But my friend just found out and she was only 16 weeks along. They peek between the legs during the ultrasound.

 

[CrystalBrooke]

ok new question...and i didnt see much of a point in making a new thread for it. so when can you start to feel the baby move? im very anxious about feeling my little one in there for the first time.

 

[chrislife]

You can tell a lot more if your ultrasound is with an ultrasound technician than if it's with your regular doctor. They are specially trained, and do a much more thorough examination of the images.

I think 3 1/2 -4 months is typical for feeling movement, though if you are really still and paying very close attention, you might feel a tiny flutter before then.

 

[CarrieAg93]

We found out the gender at week 18 and I began to feel movement at 22 wks.

 

[Leanna]

Yeah........ my friend is 18 weeks and still says shes not sure if shes feeling the baby but she thinks she can now. The real cool movements for me were further along, around week 24-29. Before it gets too tight in there for backflips.

 

[shainamsu]

we found out it was a girl during an ultrasound at 16 weeks, although i actually started feeling her move before then, around 12-14 weeks. according to the doctor, she's incredibly active, though, so i wouldn't count on feeling any defined kicks until sometime around 20-25 weeks.

 

[CrystalBrooke]

hopefully my baby will be active and i'll get to feel him/her move in about 2 or 3 weeks.
btw blue impulse...my fiance loves the name Abigail, he tried and tried to get me to agree, and it's pretty, but i like Taylor MaKenzie

 

[Leanna]

Are you going to get married soon? I forget. Blue, I was pretty paranoid about that happening. I had three ultrasounds by three different people and they all said he was a boy so I felt pretty safe. But I still told my husband, honey if its a girl you have to go to Walmart and buy something pink to take her home in. And we didn't take the tags off of anything until after the birth so we could return/exchange. But we didn't tell anyone the name was had picked until after birth, we just called him "little guy."

 

[CrystalBrooke]

my name that i absolutly loved and still do is Olivia, but he just wont hear of it..of course i might end up naming it that anyways.
we are getting married as soon as we're able, im the only one of us that has a job, he's still in college, but he graduates in December...which is when we're wanting to get married. if all goes as planned, i should be married before Christmas..but we're still working out the details.

 

[Leanna]

Sounds neat. Have you graduated high school already then? I was in high school until I turned 18.

 

[CrystalBrooke]

i dont graduate til May, but i am definatly going to graduate...i'll be 18 when i graduate also.

 

[Leanna]

Wow well you are doing a good job at growing up fast. Best wishes to you and your fiance and the baby