Many parents find out they are having a baby by using a home pregnancy test. Now, home tests can reliably predict a baby’s sex as early as seven weeks into the pregnancy.
The tests, which analyze DNA from the fetus found in the mother’s blood, have been available to consumers in drugstores and online for a few years. But their use has been limited, partly because their accuracy was unclear, reports Pam Belluck in today’s New York Times. Now a new analysis, published in The Journal of the American Medical Association, found that the finger-prick blood tests could predict gender with accuracy ranging from 95 percent at seven weeks to 99 percent at 20 weeks.
Although many people want to know the sex of their baby for planning purposes or to appease their curiosity, one potential worry is whether women might abort the fetus if it’s not the gender they were hoping for.
To learn more, read the full report, “Blood Test Can Tell Fetal Sex at 7 Weeks, Study Says,” and then please join the discussion below.
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