Study after study have been made to know which prenatal gender tests provide the most accurate and reliable results. It was found out by the researchers that a urine test is extremely unreliable. This is most likely because by the time the DNA of the baby has been filtered from the mother’s blood into her urine, it has already broken down. Gender blood test, on the other hand, reveals fetal DNA as early as seven weeks.
The result shows that even before seven weeks to pregnancy, a gender blood test identifies a male fetus by about 74% of the time and beyond this stage, accuracy goes even higher. In fact, the tests that are performed between 7 and 20 weeks’ gestation accurately determines male fetus about 95% of the time and female fetus about 99% of the time. Only boys have Y chromosomes, meaning if they are present in the blood of the mother, then she is very likely having a boy. Otherwise, she’ll be expecting a baby girl.
Better yet, after 20 weeks of pregnancy, a gender blood test even provides almost a 100% accuracy for both sexes. The test can also help avoid the pregnant mother from undergoing through more invasive and risky procedures just to know the gender of her baby as early as possible. This is particularly in the case of high-risk pregnancies due to gender-related abnormalities as well as genetic disorders. Knowing the results of a reliable test will help the parents, especially the mother, what to do next if the result shows a high chance of abnormality.
So, if you are one of those expectant mothers with a history of genetic disorders, you better hurry and ensure your baby’s good future even he or she is not yet born. Just make sure that you send your sample to a trusted blood test laboratory or company.
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