More testing will be required if your NIPT comes up with positive results. If absent, your baby will be a girl.
In this test, amniotic fluid is extracted to check for fetal abnormalities such as cystic fibrosis or spina bifida. Chorionic villus sampling CVS is an invasive prenatal test in which your doctor pulls a sample of chorionic villi from the placenta and examines them for chromosomal disorders, such as sickle cell anemia or Tay-Sachs disease.
Doctors can perform CVS as early as week ten of your pregnancy. Like amniocentesis, CVS is only done if your prenatal screenings come back positive. Therefore, it should not be done for gender determination alone. If you decide to go through in vitro fertilization IVF , you can find out the gender of your baby at the beginning of your IVF procedure s. The evolutionary thinking goes that sons require more resources i.
Is it a boy or a girl? Your appetite may offer a clue. One study tracked the diets of moms-to-be and found that women who were pregnant with boys ate about 10 percent more calories than those who were pregnant with girls. Why the greater appetite? Researchers suspect testosterone secreted by male fetuses could be sending their mothers a signal to eat more. And that could explain why baby boys tend to be bigger at birth than baby girls.
Got food aversions — even to ones that were favorites? The reason? Aversions are tied to the way a woman's immune system functions as she tries to protect her growing fetus.
Squeamishness, say researchers, is designed to protect the especially vulnerable male fetus by causing the expectant mom to stay away from potentially sketchy substances. Some research has found that moms-to-be pregnant with sons are more likely to develop gestational diabetes — a pregnancy condition characterized by higher-than-normal glucose in the blood — than expectant moms who are pregnant with daughters.
Couples who live together may be more likely to have boys than single moms. One study that looked at 86, children born in the U. There is one folktale, however, that scientists have studied — and it has to do with whether fetal heart rate can predict gender. Medical research has debunked this heart rate gender prediction theory. You can have this test starting at 10 weeks of pregnancy. It only screens for the possibility. If your baby has abnormal results, your doctor may order further tests to diagnose Down syndrome and other chromosome disorders.
This test can also accurately determine the sex of your baby. Chronic villus sampling CVS is one genetic test used to identify Down syndrome. This test removes a sample of chorionic villus, which is a type of tissue found in the placenta. It reveals genetic information about your baby. You can have this test as early as your 10th or 12th week of pregnancy.
And because it has gene information about your baby, it can also reveal the sex of your baby. This is an accurate test for finding out the sex of the baby, but it does involve some risks. Amniocentesis is a test that helps diagnose detect developmental issues in a fetus. Your doctor collects a small amount of amniotic fluid, which contains cells that indicate abnormalities.
The cells are tested for Down syndrome, spina bifida , and other genetic conditions. You can have this test around 15 to 18 weeks of pregnancy, and it takes about 30 minutes. In fact, some research has found that the Shettles Method may increase a couple's chances of having the opposite sex of the one they want. One study found that couples who followed his advice had only a 39 percent chance of conceiving the gender of their choice. That's less than the percent chance they'd have if they let nature take its course.
Shettles proposed seems to make sense," says Masood Khatamee, M. Martin Young, M. Shettles's theory stem from its being based on artificial insemination. For couples conceiving naturally, Dr. Young prescribes the opposite course. Shettles's theory, have found that girls are usually conceived right at ovulation and that boys are conceived four to six days before and two days after ovulation," says Dr.
His recommendations? Have sex within 24 hours of ovulation to increase your chances of conceiving a girl to about 55 to 60 percent; to increase your odds of conceiving a boy to about 60 to 65 percent, have sex four to six days preceding ovulation and then abstain.
The woman should remain still for 20 minutes after intercourse to increase the survival of all sperm and the chance of fertilization. In addition, use a baking soda douche. Among his satisfied customers are Julie and Wolf Puckett. Five years ago, the Amarillo, Texas, couple consulted Dr. Young's book for help in conceiving a boy. The Pucketts charted Julie's temperature to determine ovulation, then had intercourse several days before she was set to ovulate.
Afterward, Julie raised her hips with a pillow, as Dr. Young advises. Whether by design or by chance, the system worked. The Pucketts' son, Hunter, is now 4. If these conflicting theories sound confusing, they are.
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