# Mum’s Shocked Face After Giving Birth To The Wrong Gender

- Link: https://stayathomemum.com.au/family/pregnancy/mums-shocked-face-after-giving-birth-to-the-wrong-gender/
- Published: 2016-06-03T09:10:52+10:00
- Author: Clare Whitfield

## _How would you react when you discover that the gender of your baby was not what you expected? This mum’s�__reaction�says it all._

Mum�Koto Nakamura got the surprise of her life when after she gave birth to her 
firstborn, expecting the baby�to be a girl as�what she was told during an ultrasound,
the midwife told her,�”actually it’s not a girl, you have a baby boy!”

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Koto’s reaction was that of utter surprise�and birth photographer, Jessica Jackson
caught on camera the hilarious candid moment.

She posted in her [Instragram](https://www.instagram.com/ittybittyphotographytas/)
�that [incredible moment](https://www.instagram.com/p/BGIV1M0SWt7/), which shows
�Koto in her hospital bed, clearly looking shocked and staring directly at the lens.

> “The look I captured was her saying ‘a boy? Jess am I hearing this right’, I remember
> saying to her, ‘Yes you have a son!” Jessica said.

During Koto’s delivery, the midwife told her a story of a mum in the past�who had
been told that her baby was one gender, only to deliver the opposite.�”We were all
laughing and joking, saying ‘oh gosh imagine if that happened to Koto’ we really
didn’t believe it was possible,” Jessica said.

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> Koto and her husband, Sina Niakansafy had already picked out the name Hinata for
> their new daughter. When Koto was told she had a new son, she was surprised, and
> thought she had misheard or misinterpreted.�”She was saying “not Hinata?’ Jessica
> said.

However, Jessica said that once everything sunk in, the couple were beyond excited
and Sina was planning camping trips with his son, they named Taiga, which means 
big and gracious.

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Koto’s mother had travelled from Japan to Hobart before the birth, and Jessica got
to spend the day with the family as a photographer, friend and support.

> “I got to really experience the highs and lows in that delivery room and capture
> all of that for them to look back on.�The laughter, the excitement and the tears,
> actually left me without a voice for a week, it was an absolute dream to be witness
> and document the birth of this baby, and how awesome for Taiga to have the exact
> look on his mum’s face to look back on,” Jessica said.

Source:�[News.com.au](http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/parenting/babies/check-out-this-mums-face-as-she-discovers-her-baby-girl-is-a-boy/news-story/80a976ffc0da56af6c97f72e0911ce99)

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 Clare Whitfield is the Editor of Stay at Home Mum and a recognised voice in practical
home management for Australian families. Based in the northern suburbs of Sydney,
she balances editorial leadership with life as a stay at home mum to two school 
age children. Her background in home economics and more than a decade of experience
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