When do you find out the sex of your baby in the womb?
Introduction
When do you find out the sex of your baby ? Both pregnant women and those planning a pregnancy ask themselves this question.
Nothing strange! In fact, we are talking about a moment of deep emotion for the whole family and, very often, the stage that marks the beginning of the purchase of essential clothes and accessories for the puppy (I will soon dedicate an article to the subject: in the meantime, I invite you to take a look at this video ).
If you want to know more about when you discover if the puppy growing in the womb is male or female and also how, you just have to continue reading the article.
As you can see, I have provided it with an index. Thanks to it, if you are interested in a particular aspect of the topic, you can delve deeper into it simply by clicking on the title of the corresponding paragraph.
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How to Know if You're Expecting a Boy or a Girl
As specified at the beginning of this video by Dr. Maria Chiara Alvisi, independent midwife and author of the prenatal video course that you can access at the end of the paragraph, the answer to the question “ When do you find out the sex of the baby? ” depends on the couple's choices.
The earliest method is fetal DNA analysis from maternal blood . What is it?
A non-invasive test that is performed, if the future parents wish, around the eleventh week of pregnancy.
At the base of everything we find a very important physiological phenomenon . What does it consist of?
In the cleavage of placental cells , a process which causes fragments of fetal DNA to enter the woman's bloodstream .
Starting from the plasma component, free fetal DNA is isolated and the analysis begins.
The procedure is very simple: a sample of maternal venous blood is taken from the arm (the quantity is around 10 cc).
The goal? To obtain the chromosomal makeup of the baby the woman is carrying in her womb.
The analysis in question obviously takes into account the sex chromosomes and represents certain information to refer to in order to know whether you are expecting a boy or a girl.
Those who choose not to undergo this type of investigation - which is not mandatory and which allows you to know, in addition to the sex, also information on pathologies such as trisomy 21 or Down syndrome, trisomy 18 or Edwards syndrome and trisomy 13 or Patau syndrome - can find out what color the bow will be during ultrasound checks.
Be careful, though: from the very first ultrasound scan - I recently dedicated an article to this topic, with specifics on timing and what to expect - no information can be obtained on the matter.
Usually, the sex of the baby is discovered during a morphological ultrasound.
The latter, which aims to analyze aspects such as fetal biometry, the structure of the placenta and the quantity of amniotic fluid, can also clarify the type of genitals.
It is performed between 18 and 22 weeks, right in the heart of the pregnancy journey.
