How Accurate Are Gender Reveal Tests?

Throughout human history, expectant parents have wondered what sex their baby (or babies) will be. Now, gender reveal tests can give you a clear answer early in the pregnancy. Better still, there are very good reasons why you can trust the result.

Whether you are yearning to have a boy, longing for a girl, or simply curious about what you will have, early knowledge of your baby’s gender can be a wonderful thing to discover.

It is true that some people still prefer to wait until the birth to find out, but knowing ahead of time helps with practical arrangements like decorating the baby’s room in gender-specific décor and choosing names.

This also means you can hold a gender reveal party if you want, while your family may also be delighted to learn the news early.

How Does A Gender Reveal Test Work?

You can have the test carried out at our pharmacy just a few weeks into pregnancy. It is a simple blood test, and the way it works is quite simple, based on detecting the biological evidence in your bloodstream:

• Fragments of your baby’s DNA will find their way into your bloodstream

• A blood sample will contain some of these cells alongside your own

• The baby’s DNA cells contain the key biomarker of sex: chromosomes

• As women only have X chromosomes, any sign of a Y chromosome means you are expecting a boy

• If no Y chromosome is present, it’s a girl

Having a reliable gender reveal test is essential if you don’t want to wait until the birth. Just imagine the calamity if you thought you were having a boy and made all the preparations for this, only to deliver a girl, or vice versa.

How Else Can You Find Out A Baby’s Sex?

In the past, people have used different methods to try to discover what sex their baby would be.

Ultrasound scans are another reliable method. These can first detect the sex of a baby when carried out around the 16-20 week range.

This means you still have at least half the pregnancy to go unless the baby arrives early, but it does allow less time than a gender reveal blood test. This makes the latter preferable if you want to have more opportunities to plan ahead.

Some may wonder how people dealt with this question in the past. Did they just accept they would spend nine months guessing, or did they have their own ideas of how to find the answer?

The truth is that there are still lots of dubious ideas out there about how to guess a baby’s sex. An example of this is the ring test, which works by taking the wedding ring of the mother, tying a piece of string to it, then dangling it over her pregnant belly.

According to this test, when the ring eventually moves, it will either swing back and forth in a straight line, which indicates a boy, or in a circle, which means it’s a girl.

Suffice to say, this is an old wives’ tale. However, some folk still believe in this kind of thing, which may be a very good reason for you to get a reliable gender reveal test, so you can be spared such nonsense!