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- Medical Video: Maternal blood test can tell parents a fetus's sex after 7 weeks
- Blood test to find out the sex of your baby
- Not only the sex you get from a blood test
Medical Video: Maternal blood test can tell parents a fetus's sex after 7 weeks
When pregnant, many couples are curious about the sex of their baby, male or female. In fact, many people around pregnant women may guess the sex of the baby who is still in the womb. Guessing through the form of pregnant mother's stomach, changing skin of pregnant women, to changing behavior of pregnant women. Well, one way that can be used to find out the sex of a baby is to do a blood test.
Blood test to find out the sex of your baby
You can do a blood test to find out the sex of your baby, even from the age of your pregnancy just stepping on a few weeks. A blood test can be done earlier than an ultrasound that is only accurately performed at 18-22 weeks of gestation to determine the sex of the baby. So, for those of you who can't wait to know the sex of your prospective baby since the beginning of pregnancy, maybe you can do a blood test.
Blood tests are actually intended to determine chromosomal abnormalities (such as Down syndrome) in the fetus. But, this test can also be used to determine the sex of the baby. This blood test is usually called free cell DNA testing or noninvasive prenatal testing. Why is it said to be noninvasive? Because this test is not done by surgery or taking tissue.
Blood tests are carried out using samples of fetal DNA in the mother's blood. Because it is done by taking a mother's blood sample, this DNA test is more accurate than using the mother's urine. Based on research published by the Journal of the American Medical Association, the accuracy of this DNA test is 95.4% for baby boys and 98.6% for baby girls.
What's more, DNA testing can be done since the age of 7 weeks to find out the sex of the baby. Doing this test will also not pose any risk during pregnancy. In addition to knowing gender, blood tests can also be used to determine the parent or father relationship of the fetus, type of rhesus fetal blood group, duchenne muscular dystrophy, hemophilia, congenital adrenal hyperplasia, cystic fibrosis, Down syndrome, and beta-thalassemia. Blood tests are highly recommended for pregnant women who have a high risk of giving birth to babies with genetic disorders.
Not only the sex you get from a blood test
Yes, blood tests are carried out not only for the purpose of knowing the sex of the baby, but actually more than that and this is more important. Blood tests are also performed to determine chromosomal abnormalities that can occur in boys or girls. Disorders such as congenital adrenal hyperplasia can also be known from this test.
Congenital adrenal hyperplasia is a hormonal balance disorder that can cause female fetuses to have masculine characteristics. Girl babies born with this disorder can experience clitoral swelling or ambiguous genitals. If this disorder is known early on through a blood test, this disorder may be treated early.
Knowing the sex based on chromosomes (especially) is important for parents who have babies with ambiguous genitals. By knowing the baby's chromosome (XX for a baby girl or XY for a baby boy), parents can also better prepare themselves for how they raise their children according to their sex.
