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November 2026 Babies 🇬🇧

Why does my 12 week scan look so different from everyone else's?

I've seen so many posts from other ladies of their 12 week scan photos even asking for early gender guesses and I am feeling confused and deflated and a little sad that mine looks nothing like them, when we first went in for the 12 week scan (at the start of may) the baby was facing like head towards the front so sonographer couldn't get a crown to rump measurement, but I could see the baby's head, she said to drink some more and walk around and come back in half hour, so we did, and then baby was apparently upside down, she was able to get a measurement to date the pregnancy at 12 weeks 5 days (we were expecting 12 weeks 1 day but I know thats normal to be slightly out on calculations) but the baby didn't look much like a baby at all, so all the photos we got I can't even tell what im looking at, let alone if its a boy or girl, we can't even tell where the head is? The sonographer seemed fine with it and said everything looks good, we heard heartbeat and she was able to measure the fluid behind the neck so she could obviously tell which bit was where and didn't seem concerned, so I didn't think much of it, just expected this is what a 12 week scan looks like, but now I've seen soooo many on here that have me a bit worried about mine? Has anyone else had this? Looking for some reassurance, we've got a private gender scan on the 10th as we are now 15weeks 3 days today, hoping that will help reassure me and look more like I was expecting? Thanks