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How to determine gender during pregnancy
Determining the sex of a child during pregnancy, given the level of modern diagnostics, is not a problem. It is much easier to find a dowry for a baby if it is already known who will be born – a boy or a girl.
How to determine the sex of a baby during pregnancy?
To do this, you need to wait for a certain period. In the first trimester, no specialist will be able to tell what gender the baby will be born with.
Ultrasound will help determine the sex of the child during pregnancy
Here’s how you can determine it later:
- With the help of ultrasound. Ultrasound gives the most clear answer to the question of whether a woman will give birth to a boy or a girl. During pregnancy, women undergo an ultrasound examination three times, in the absence of indications, do it more often. The gender of the child, as a rule, is announced at the second, which is held at 20-24 weeks. At the first ultrasound scan at 11-14 weeks, the specialist can only make an assumption about the gender. The fact is that the genitals have not yet been formed during this period, only the so-called genital tubercle is visible in the fetus. Later, it transforms into female or male genitals, but during this period, the genital tubercle in boys and girls looks almost the same. By the second trimester of pregnancy, the genitals are already sufficiently formed, and the doctor can announce the gender if the woman wants to know it. It happens that the child fits in the stomach in such a way that it is not possible to identify his gender. He can hide from the ultrasound sensor until the end of the term.
- Genetic studies are capable of determining the sex of the baby during pregnancy without any error. If a woman, according to indications, underwent a biopsy of the chorionic villi, placenta, or a study of the amniotic fluid, this will give the correct answer to the question about the sex. The purpose of these studies is to determine the karyotype of a child, this is the only way to say whether he has genetic pathologies. When drawing up a conclusion on the results of these procedures, genetics, as a rule, indicate the gender of the baby.
There are also a large number of folk signs that help determine the sex of the fetus during pregnancy. It is believed that with boys, women are drawn to meat, and with girls – to sweets, that during pregnancy with a boy, the belly has a sharp shape and a woman retains her waist, that girls behave more calmly in the womb.
It happens that these signs fully justify themselves. Still, the most accurate answer can only be obtained through medical research.