Living with Pediatric Urology Issues

I was 17 weeks pregnant when the doctor told me he was 110% sure I was having a girl. Well at 36 weeks pregnant the nurse told me she saw testicles, then changed her mind and told me it was just a swollen labia. So I brushed it off and went on having two baby showers and preparing all the pink for my “baby girl”. I had a repeat cesarean and when they pulled my son out the Doctor said, “Congratulations, its a GIRL!!” the nurses got a hold of him and said they thought different but couldnt tell me for sure until a doctor, or two looked at the baby.

For two hours I waited for answers and waited to see my new baby. It was then that a Doctor came to me in the post op room and told me I indeed had a baby boy. I cried. and cried. happy tears but also fearful for what else we would be going through. Then the nurses told me they werent for sure yet because they had to check for uterus or ovaries in my son through ultrasound. So we waited again… waiting to name him and waiting to call him a he or she or tell our family??

In the long run we have a boy, fully a boy and nothing else. His chromosomes came back a boy and he had always just been a boy. But he pees out of a hole underneath his penis and also had two scrotum sacs but they now call this Hypospadias. Which i had to find for myself on the internet. Now i hear my son will undergo surgery between 6 and 18 months for correction to his urethra. Hypospadias is abnormally located urethral opening caused by incomplete development of urethra between 8-20 weeks gestation. They first told me he had ambiguous genitalia. where they could not tell if he was male or female at birth. It was so scary but im hanging in there. If you have a story similar to mine or can relate please write to me i need all the support i can get. i am 21 years old and have 2 kids. i just want support and relief!