MIDWIVES are secretly refusing to tell pregnant mums the gender of their babies – because they’re terrified of being sued if they get it wrong.
Some even claimed women in Scotland would abort their fetuses if they discovered it was the “wrong” gender.
Four out of 14 NHS boards in Scotland admitted they don’t reveal a baby’s gender before birth, according to the Sunday Post.
Grampain, Forth Valley, Orkney and Shetland all offer “non-gender” testing policies.
One midwife told the newspaper: “There were threats of legal action if we got it wrong.
“And some women no longer nurtured the pregnancy if they were told it was a girl.”
Another said: “Mistakes happen. I had a case where a couple were told they were having a wee girl and everything they had was pink, the nursery was decorated pink, and then they had a boy.”
Some women no longer nurtured the pregnancy if they were told it was a girl
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NHS Grampain said they stopped scanning after staff received “verbal abuse” after failing to tell if it was a boy or a girl.
An NHS Orkney spokesman said: “It is not our policy to look for the sex.”
And Forth Valley said sonographers “do not look for or inform the prospective parents of the sex of the unborn baby.”
Tory Annie Wells MSP said: “While health boards are entitled to implement their own policies in this area, parents will be confused at this apparent postcode lottery.”
A spokesman on behalf of NHS Grampian and NHS Orkney told the Metro: “These scans are aimed at establishing the health and growth of baby.
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“Our sonographers do not look for gender during tests as the results are not definitive.
“New parents are informed about the policy initially by their community midwife as well as by staff and signage during the tests themselves.’
An NHS Forth Valley spokesperson dismissed the policy being in place to counter abortions – saying: “It is not always possible to identify the gender during a scan.”
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