Ways to Test Gender at Home

One of the first questions an expecting couple thinks about is 'Is it a a boy or girl?' Learning the sex of your future child can be a thrilling experience. Knowing makes it possible to decide on a name, a color for the nursery, and can give the new parents a deeper connection to their bundle of joy. For years, wives' tales told future mothers how to determine what they would have on the big day. Today, new technologies have been developed to determine on your own what you can expect.

  1. Gender Prediction Test

    • Intelligender is an at-home gender test that uses a urine sample from the mother. It can be given as early as 10 weeks into pregnancy and as late as 34 weeks. It is done completely at home. Laboratory tests have proved over 90 percent accurate, with at-home tests proving up to 82% accuracy. Accuracy may be affected by several factors, including using the first morning urine, which is the most common, consuming too many fluids before performing the test, or shaking the test instead of swirling while waiting for results. This is an affordable, reasonably accurate at-home way to predict the sex of your unborn baby.

    Home DNA Test

    • A relatively new test, the home DNA sample allows expectant mothers to use a small drop of blood to determine what gender their baby will be. The Baby Gender Mentor, which costs about $275.00, can be used as early as five weeks after conception. The user sends the company lab a blood sample done by doing a small finger prick. The blood test analyzes the mother's DNA to find information about the male Y chromosome. If the sample is positive, the fetus is a boy; if negative, it's a girl. Test results are received within two or three days.

    Chinese Gender Chart

    • A legend dating back over 700 years, the Chinese Gender Chart uses the mother's age and month of conception to predict the gender of an unborn child. By tracking the age of the mother at conception on the chart, and then following it to the month of conception, it will tell you whether it is either boy or girl. With a supposed accuracy rate of 90 percent, this method is for entertainment more than anything. Other fun-at-home tests include holding a pendant over the belly. It is the claim that if the pendant moves left to right, it's a boy. If it goes in a circle, you're having a girl. There is no scientific evidence to support this, but it has been around for years.