Desire is common to all parents. Modern medicine allows this to be done with fairly high accuracy from 4-5 weeks, using the genetic material of the blood of a pregnant woman. This is a rather expensive technology, which is not available to all expectant mothers and fathers.

This is played by some enterprising manufacturers who offer to do a test for the sex of the child at home. It acts on a similar principle with a pregnancy test, i.e. uses pregnant urine to react with a chemical that changes color depending on the gender of the fetus.

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The sex of the unborn child can be found in two ways: and laboratory analysis of the blood of a pregnant woman. In the first case, a visual diagnosis of the fetus is carried out using ultrasound examination of the uterine cavity. Human sexual characteristics are well formed already at 24-25 weeks of pregnancy, which allows the doctor to see the presence of male or female genital organs. But 100% accuracy does not guarantee ultrasound diagnostics, because Features of intrauterine development are such that the testicles of a boy can sometimes be confused with the labia of a girl and vice versa.

Determining the sex of the child on ultrasound

More accurate results are given by a DNA test to determine the sex of the child. For this, venous blood of the mother is taken and examined in the laboratory for the presence of a male fetus in it. This test gives 95-98% accuracy at 4-5 weeks, and 99-100% after 7 weeks of gestation.

DNA blood test for the presence of the Y chromosome

Analysis of the genetic material of a pregnant woman is the most accurate test to determine the sex of the child. How does he work? From the first weeks of pregnancy, a small number of fetal fetal cells are present in the mother’s blood. They are discovered and examined in the laboratory. If the Y-chromosome (the part of the genome responsible for the male gender) is detected during the test, then we can say with 99% accuracy that a boy will be born. The absence of this chromosome in fetal DNA suggests that the gender of the child is female.

Previously, a laboratory test to determine the sex of the unborn child was done for medical reasons, if it was necessary to determine the likelihood of transmission of a hereditary disease to a male or female fetus. Today, everyone can do a DNA test. The advantage of this method is high accuracy, the disadvantage is high cost and a sufficiently long test run time of up to 5 days.

Important! It is only possible for one fetus to find out the sex of a child using fetal DNA analysis with an accuracy of 99%. With multiple pregnancy, the test results will no longer be accurate, because it is impossible to determine the gender of the other baby. When identifying the Y chromosome, there can be two options: either these are boys, or twins (a boy and a girl).

Gender test

The desire of parents often becomes a lever for manipulation. For example, not so long ago, the so-called. gender test to determine the sex of the child, which supposedly allows you to determine the gender of the fetus at home. Like a pregnancy test, a sex test uses the urine of a pregnant woman. She interacts with the reagent and shows either a pink color (for a girl) or blue (for a boy).

The manufacturer explains this according to the same principle as the laboratory DNA test. Allegedly, the drug contains highly sensitive indicators that accurately respond to fetal DNA in the mother’s blood and determine the Y chromosome. But is this really so?

You can’t take a baby’s sex test seriously. To determine fetal DNA, only the mother’s blood, which contains fragments of this DNA, is required. They can only be detected using high-precision medical equipment during a laboratory test.

You can find positive reviews about the test for determining the sex of the child from women whose results coincided with the gender of the baby. But this is an action of probability theory, i.e. an accident. After all, only two options are possible: either a boy or a girl. The same thing in the test - either pink or blue. By the way, the manufacturer in small print indicates on the package with the test that there may be discrepancies, thus relieving himself of responsibility for erroneous results.

Soda Test

  - Another method that can be found in the vast women's forums devoted to pregnancy. It also requires the use of the expectant mother’s urine, which should react with soda and behave differently depending on the gender of the fetus.

This reaction is interpreted in different ways: if it foams and hisses, then there will be a girl, if not, a boy, and vice versa.

But this test to determine the sex of the unborn baby has nothing to do with either science or common sense. Sex hormones, fetal fetal DNA, or other substances in the urine of a pregnant woman cannot affect the nature of the reaction with sodium bicarbonate. The chemical reaction may be due to the interaction of soda with salts in the urine (sulfates, phosphates, chlorides), but not the presence of fetal DNA in it.

Is it possible to determine by a pregnancy test?

The usual gender of the child also does not show. It identifies only by responding to the concentration of hCG (human chorionic hormone) in the urine. There are no other indicators that can respond to fetal cells in the mother’s blood in the pregnancy test.

The accuracy of the test is not pregnancy at home does not exceed 75%, because its indicators are influenced by various factors: tumors, abortions, taking certain groups of drugs containing hCG, an irregular cycle, kidney disease, and others.

Which method is the most accurate?

It is impossible to find out the gender of a child by testing special tables, determining the phase of the moon, the position of planets and constellations, etc.

If parents have a very strong desire to find out who they will be born, it is better to take a test for the sex of the child in a certified laboratory, paying money for an accurate result. Such a waste justifies itself, in contrast to home pseudo tests with an unknown chemical composition.

Useful video

In 2007, American scientists developed a technique that allows you to determine the gender of a child by DNA test. The technique is based on the fact that the mother’s blood contains particles of the baby’s DNA. How sampling of material for research is carried out, and how the analysis itself goes, you can watch the video:

As soon as a woman finds out about a long-awaited pregnancy, she will immediately have many questions, one of which ishow to find out the gender of the unborn child? Today there are many new ways to study expectant mothers, but the question of how to determine the sex of the baby in the first weeks (or even in the first days) of pregnancy remains open.

Which of them are considered the most effective and what are they based on?

How is a child of a certain gender formed?

To answer this question, you will have to remember the school biology course. A woman’s egg carries the X chromosome, and the male sperm carries the X or Y. If the egg is fertilized by the Y chromosome, then after a set time, the couple will have a boy, and if X, a girl can be expected to appear.

It is difficult to predict this natural process in advance, calculate the sex of the child, or influence it in any way, therefore, in the first weeks after conception, determining the sex of the child remains a mystery to both future parents and doctors.

What affects the gender of the baby?

There are many theories about the influence of various factors on the formation of a child’s sex, but so far none of them has found 100% confirmation. For example, there is a statement that the future sex of the child depends on the weight of the mother and her nutrition.

According to some studies, women who weigh less than 54 kilograms are more likely to give birth to girls, while fuller ladies mostly have boys. Indeed, the development of the male body requires a little more nutrients than the female, but the weight of the future mother still cannot be a guarantee of the birth of a child of a certain gender - there are many cases where small, fragile girls successfully give birth to boys.

The same applies to theories regarding the age of future parents: hormonal changes that occur over the years in the human body can affect the sex of the embryo, but are not a determining factor.

Another study says thatcalculate the gender of the child  It is possible with the help of a certain diet. So, in order to give birth to a girl, expectant mothers need magnesium and calcium, that is, eggs, onions, dairy products, nuts, etc. But you can “order” a boy using products such as fish, meat, legumes and fruits - that is, those that contain sodium and potassium.

In addition, acidic foods and drinks (in particular, natural fruit juices without sugar) are considered to be quite effective when planning the sex of the unborn baby: nutritionists who wish to conceive a girl are advised to regularly use them immediately before conception. This fact has a completely scientific justification - thanks to acidic products, the environment in the vagina also becomes acidic, which is why spermatozoa with the Y chromosome die quickly.

But in any case, the fundamental role inplanning the sex of the unborn childonly Mother Nature plays, and future parents are unable to influence her decision. The only thing they can do is try to determine the sex of the baby before he is born, using existing methods and techniques for this.

Methods for determining the gender of the baby

The most affordable way to determine the gender of the baby today is considered an ultrasound scan, but the problem is that this can only be done at a specific time (after about the 16-17th week of pregnancy). But what to do if for some reason you need to know it earlier? To do this in advance with a probability of 100% is almost impossible today, so scientists are not trying to find a method that will not only calculate the sex of the child immediately after conception, but also plan it in advance.

The most popular and effective are severalsex tests, which are based on different factors: blood of parents, date of conception and special tables (Japanese and Chinese). You can test each of them in practice and make sure of their reliability below.

  Determining the gender of the child for blood renewal

Methods for determining the sex of a child by the blood of their parents have been known to scientists for a long time, and one of them is based on the date of blood renewal. There is an opinion that the complete renewal of blood, mucous membranes and tissues regularly occurs in the body of every person, and in men the frequency of this process is four years, and in representatives of the opposite sex - three. That is, if at the time of conception the blood of a woman will be “younger” than the blood of a man, a couple will have a girl, and if on the contrary, a boy.

Saying something about the reliability of this method is quite difficult, because according to some data it "works" in 80% of cases, and according to others - in 50%. But experts say that if the calculations are done correctly, the couple has every chance of getting an answer to their question with a fairly high probability.

To calculategender of a child for blood renewal  you need to know the date of conception of the baby, as well as the date of birth of the future father and mother. True, it is important to remember that there are many factors that can speed up the process of blood renewal: these include transfusions, operations, major blood loss, or donation. In this case, the countdown should not begin from the date of birth, but from the day when the last major blood loss occurred

  Determining the sex of the child by the blood type of the parents

The method is based on the theory that the blood groups of the future father and mother have a great influence on the formation of the baby’s sex. In other words, a woman and a man with certain blood groups are more likely to have a child of a certain gender. Of course, this method has a right to exist, but its reliability is subject to great criticism.

The problem is that the table for determining the child’s gender by blood implies one result for one pair of parents, but each of us knows cases when heterosexual children grow up in the same family.

  Determining the sex of the child by the Rhesus factor of the parents

To determine the gender of the baby in this way, it is enough to compare the Rh factors of his parents. To make it easier is simple: if the rhesus coincides, then the couple will have a girl, and if the indicators are different - a boy.

True, as in the case of calculating sex by blood group, the reliability of the result can be greatly doubted, because he claims that a particular couple can have either one boy or one girl.

  Determining the gender of the child on the Chinese table

This method has no scientific justification, and it is based on observations and practical experience of several generations of Chinese people. He says that a woman at a certain age can conceive or give birth to a boy or girl only in certain months of the year.

  According to researchers, the first mention of the method dates back to the 12th century, anddetermination of the sex of the child according to the table  helped many monarchs from the Celestial Empire to plan the sex of their heirs. how  find out the gender of the child from the table?

Very simple - you need to know the month of birth of the future mother, as well as the month of conception or the expected birth of the baby. By the way, modern parents also talk about its high efficiency of the Chinese table - according to the estimates of couples who used this method, the probability of getting the correct result is about 90%.

To determine the sex of the expected baby from the Chinese table, simply find the corresponding cell in the table - the place where the row of your age and the column intersect - the month of conception.

It is interesting that with the help of this table it is possible to plan the gender of the child. In the line corresponding to your age, select the months in which the appearance of a boy or girl is most likely. Subtract 9 months from the selected month, and you will receive the estimated month of conception.

  Determining the gender of the child according to the Japanese table

Determining the sex of a child according to the Japanese calendar, which came to us from the Land of the Rising Sun, is very similar to the determination according to the Chinese table, and is also based solely on practical observations. The difference between them is that the first takes into account not only information about the mother and the month of conception (or the expected month of the birth of the child), but also the date of birth of the father. Thus, the Chinese method can be called more flexible and, accordingly, more reliable.

The only problem some couples may encounter is the difficulty in determining the month of conception. For example, if a woman's ovulation occurred on the 31st day, then conception is very likely to occur on the 1st and 2nd day of the next month, because the sperm life span is from 3 to 5 days. The accuracy of the method according to various sources is from 70 to 90%.

To determine the sex of the unborn child in the Japanese table, you need to find the number corresponding to your pair in table1. Then we find this number in the top row of table 2. In the column of the corresponding number we find the month in which the conception occurred. Moving along this line to the middle of the table, we determine the probability of giving birth to a boy or girl by the number of crosses - the more there are, the greater the probability.

Table 1.

table 2

  Determining the sex of the child by the date of ovulation or the date of conception

Every woman knows that conception can occur only on certain days of the month: on average, it is two days before ovulation, ovulation itself and two days after it. Technique allowingcalculate the sex of the child by the date of conception  (more precisely, the date of ovulation), based on the "behavior" and characteristics of the X and Y chromosomes.

  According to studies, the "girl" sperm, (that is, carriers of the X chromosome), are quite slow, but more tenacious, so they can stay in the uterus from 2 to 4 days and calmly "wait" for ovulation. But sperm with the sign Y, on the contrary, are very mobile, but their lifespan is very short.

That is, if sexual intercourse occurred 2-4 days before ovulation, then it is highly likely that the couple will give birth to a girl, and if exactly on the day of ovulation (or immediately after it) - you can expect the appearance of a boy.

Method for determining the sex of a Freiman-Dobrotin child

Fairly complicated calculation. But it is considered one of the most accurate. It's good that we have a calculator)

Tables: O - father and M - mother

First, in table O1 we find the intersection of the year of birth of the father and the year of conception of the child, remember or write the number in the intersection.

And so on all the tables from the first to the fifth number.

Then we scale up the obtained numbers and from the table O6 we find the final coefficient.

Similarly, we do all the actions for the mother according to tables M1-M6

In the end, we look at who has the final coefficient more, if mom has a girl, if dad has a boy. If both are zero - there will be a girl

Tables for father

Table O1

Table O2

Table O3

Table O4

Table O5

Table O6 - the final coefficient for the father

Mother Tables

Table M1

Table M2

Table M3

Table M4

Table M5

Table M6 - final coefficient for mother

  Determination of the sex of the child according to the Budyansky method

Calculation Method:

1. If you use the date of birth of the mother in the calculations, then you need to determine her approximate date of conception. For this, subtract 9 months (approximately 226 days) from the mother’s birth date.
Next, you need to determine the even year of conception of the mother or the odd.
Next, on the table, find the type of mother’s cycle: in the first column you are looking for a suitable month for conception of the mother, and you are looking for the intersection with the type of year (even or odd) - the intersection will be the type of mom’s cycle.

2. According to the preliminary date of conception of a child, you perform actions similar to mothers. You determine the parity of the year of conception of the child, look in the first column for a suitable range of dates in which you plan to conceive and at the intersection of the type of year of conception and the date of conception - the type of cycle of the child will be indicated.

If the type of mom’s cycle and the type of baby’s cycle coincide, then there will be a girl, if they differ, then there will be a boy.

Budyansky Method Table

Is it possible to predict the sex of the child with a 100% probability?

Unfortunately, none of the methods listed above can give a 100% accurate result. Even specialists in ultrasound diagnostics sometimes make mistakes: for example, the fetus can turn so that it will be very difficult to determine the sex of the child.

In addition, before the 18th week of pregnancy, male and female genital organs are very similar, so even an experienced doctor can confuse them.

There are only two ways to know the sex of a child:

• ECO.  When conducting in vitro (artificial) fertilization, doctors usually determine the sex of the embryo before transplanting it into the uterus. But to do such a study only at the request of parents in most countries is considered unethical, therefore it is carried out only to exclude genetic pathologies characteristic of men and women.
• Intrauterine tests. Most often, they include amniocentesis and a chorionic villus biopsy and are performed between the 15-18th and 11-14th weeks of pregnancy, respectively. But since these tests carry some risk, they are also carried out only in

The baby’s gender directly depends on whose blood - moms or dads - is younger, that is, from whom it was later updated.

The sex of the child begins to worry future parents long before his conception. Someone wants a boy, someone wants a girl, but most importantly, many do not want to depend on the case, so they are trying to plan the sex of the child. Diet, folk signs, the sex of the child by the date of conception, and many other ways to determine the sex of the unborn child are used by parents.

However, not everyone plans the sex of the baby before conception. For many, the question “how to calculate the sex of the baby” begins to worry when there is already a pregnancy. In this case, you can find out the gender using ultrasound, but you need to wait for this, and you really want to find out as quickly as possible, it’s better right now.

Thanks to these tests, you can calculate the sex of the child by the date of birth of the parents, by the last update of their blood, by blood group and Rh factor. You can also calculate the sex of the unborn child using Japanese and Chinese methods of planning the sex of the child, presented in the form of simple tables. Determining the sex of the unborn baby with these methods will allow you to choose the right month for the conception of a boy or girl.

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Surely, almost every pregnant woman would like to know in advance who will be born to her: Boy or girl? Any future mother asks this question, even if she firmly decided not to resort to any means of determining the sex of the child.

If you decide to find out the gender of your future baby, you can use one of the methods described in this article. Even if you have a very short gestation period, determining the sex of the unborn baby is possible! The main thing is to choose the right method!

How to determine the gender of the unborn child?

First, of course, science-based methods. There are two of them:

• Chorionic biopsy. Using this procedure, you can determine the sex of the unborn child with one hundred percent probability. It is carried out for a period of 6-10 weeks only for medical reasons, since this procedure can threaten the birth of a child. Using a special needle, several cells of the future placenta are extracted from the uterus. Only, in order to find out the gender of the child, a biopsy is not recommended.
• Ultrasound This is the most common and well-known scientific method. But, unfortunately, not always reliable. The most accurate result can be obtained after 23 weeks. And only sometimes, it is possible to determine the sex of the unborn baby at 15-16 weeks of pregnancy.

In addition to scientific methods, there are many methods How to determine the gender of the child. After all, ultrasound diagnostics appeared recently, and women always wanted to know who you were born with, therefore, for many millennia, various methods of determining the sex of the child have been transmitted from generation to generation. Here are just a few of them:

How to determine the sex of the unborn child by the date of ovulation

Determining the sex of the child by the date of ovulation is based on the difference in sperm. As you know, sperm carriers of the Y chromosome are more mobile and agile. During fertilization, they are the first to get to the egg, and therefore the gender of the unborn child is male. But, if at the moment of proximity ovulation has not yet occurred, then spermatozoa carriers of the Y chromosome will soon die. In contrast, spermatozoa carriers of the X chromosome 2 to 3 days can wait for the right moment. In this case, we must wait for the birth of the girl.

How to determine the gender of the unborn child by the blood type of mother and father

Table determining the sex of the unborn child by the blood type of parents

Table determining the sex of the unborn child by Rhesus factor of the blood of parents

But, this is a very dubious way to determine the sex of the child, because such an approach would mean that a couple of men and women could have only same-sex children.

New Blood Method

This method is considered one of the most common. It is based on the theory of "blood renewal." In a woman, blood is renewed once every three years, and in a man once every four years. In order to determine the sex of the child, it is necessary to calculate which of the parents had more “young blood” at the time of conception. For example: The future dad is 29 years old, mom is 23 years old. Divide 29 by 4, get 7 and the remainder 1, 23 divide by 3, get 7 and the remainder 2. And so, 2 is greater than 1, which means a girl will be born. If, during division, equal residues are obtained or one of them is equal to zero, then the appearance of twins is possible.

Determining the gender of the child by father

Yes, and this is possible. There are some signs by which it is allegedly possible to determine who is born - a boy or a girl.

• It is believed that in bald men, sons are born one and a half times more often than in men with magnificent hair. So if, your chosen one is bald, expect a boy.
• If the future dad has great masculine power, then wait for the girl.
• A man wears tight underwear - a boy will be born, free - a girl.

The health and appearance of a pregnant woman

• If you are experiencing severe toxicosis, then expect a boy
• Boys' mothers during pregnancy have a tendency to sour and sweet foods, as well as to meat. But the mothers of girls, on the contrary, become sweet tooth and eat various sweet buns and fruits in large quantities. In addition to various food preferences, the appetite of expectant mothers is also important. So mothers of boys want to eat much more often and more.
• If a pregnant woman experiences chills, then she will have a girl, attacks of suffocating heat - most likely a boy.
• If, in the future mother, the hair on her legs suddenly began to grow sharply, this indicates that there is a boy inside her. In addition, the constantly cold legs of the pregnant woman point to the boy.
• Nipple halos are light - a boy, dark - a girl.
• A woman became pregnant during pregnancy - a girl, prettier - a boy. In mothers of girls, the amount of sex hormones that a child needs so much is reduced, so pigmented spots often appear on mothers' face swelling.

How to determine the gender of the unborn child according to folk signs

• It is believed that if the pregnant belly is round, looks like a ball, then there will be a girl, if the stomach resembles a cucumber, it will be a long boy.
• If the pregnant woman felt the first movement in the abdomen on the right, then this is a boy, if on the left - then a girl. This sign comes from the fact that it is believed that the left half of the body is female, the right is male. So, for example, if you ask a pregnant woman to get up, you need to observe with which hand she will do it, from here you can draw exactly the same conclusions.
• If the first trimester of pregnancy was easy, it is believed that a boy will be born, in another case, a girl will be born.
• There is one formula with which you can find out the gender of the child.

How to find out the gender of a child using various fortunetelling

• Grains of barley and wheat should be moistened with pregnant urine. And see if the barley first sprouts, a boy is born, if wheat, wait for the girl.
• If the expectant mother prefers to start eating bread from the humpback, then she will have a son. And if he takes from the middle - a daughter.
• You can ask the expectant mother to take the key from the table. If she takes up the round part of the key, then there will be a boy. If a girl is born for the foundation.
• If, after a request to show her hands, the pregnant woman shows them with her palms up, then there will be a girl, if down, a boy.
• Hang the wedding ring on a gold chain and hold it above the pregnant belly. If the ring starts to swing back and forth, it means that a girl will be born. If the ring starts spinning in a circle there will be a boy.
• If you already have a child, then you need to look at his nape. If the hair comes down in the form of a pigtail, then the next child will be a girl. If the first word your first baby said was “mom,” then wait for your daughter. If "dad" - a son will be born.

Determining the sex of the child by heart rate

Determine the sex of the child with this method can be in 12-14 weeks of pregnancy. If the fetal heart rate is over 140 beats per minute, then this is a girl. If less than 140 strokes, then a boy.

Special tests to determine the gender of the child

Such special tests to determine the sex of the unborn baby can help you with the greatest probability of finding out who will be born to you.

Of course, today there are many methods to determine the sex of a child. But no matter what method you use, the main thing is that let your baby be welcome and always loved!