Many pregnant women have often had to hear various comments concerning the alleged sex of the child, for example, if you feel sick in the morning, then a girl, and if the stomach hangs down significantly - certainly will be a boy. Although the advances in modern medicine make it possible to everyone to determine the sex of the baby at a fairly early stages, the signs are still very popular.

Partly to blame the Internet - many experts say that people are more willing to accept the truth of the information read in the network than what they hear in person from another person. This is almost irrelevant, there is information on the site authoritative publication or in any social network. However, most will take to determine the sex of the child appeared many centuries ago. How to look at them the modern medicine?

How do I know the baby's gender

• The stomach hangs down. According to popular belief, if the expectant mother stomach hangs down, it's a boy, if uniformly rounded belly, it's a girl. This is pure myth. How lowered the stomach during pregnancy it depends on muscle tone and how it is a child in the womb at the moment. Also it has a value structure of the body and how to increase the weight of women during pregnancy and the child's sex got nothing to do with it.

• Heart rate. If the baby's heart beats at a rate of more than one hundred forty beats per minute, a girl. Conducted in 2006, the study showed that the difference in heart rate in children, male and female in utero appears only after the twenty-eighth or thirtieth week of pregnancy. Shortly before the birth of girls is usually the heart beats faster than boys, but the heart rate may also vary depending on the condition of the fetus and the mother. However, early in pregnancy the heart rate does not say anything about the gender of the unborn child.
• Hair and ring. According to an old legend, to determine the sex of the child, it is necessary to tie the wedding ring to the lock of hair Hair: structure, characteristics of growth and development   father of the child, and hold the pendulum resulting from the belly of the future mother. If the ring on the hair strands begin to describe circles, a girl, if it will sway back and forth - a boy. Currently, there is no evidence that could confirm or refute this myth. Most scientists do not take him seriously, but proponents of traditional Chinese medicine say that this method of determining the sex of the child is working, because the motion of the ring affects the vital energy of the two organisms - mother and fetus.
• Craving for sweets. If a pregnant woman is constantly drawn to the sweet, it's a boy, but if she wants to sour - a girl. Perhaps if during pregnancy you eat a lot of sweet, your baby will grow a sweet tooth, however, while he lives in the uterus, it can not cause you to have cravings for certain foods. Features appetite of pregnant women doctors explain fluctuations in hormonal levels are not associated with the sex of the child.
• Nausea in the morning. If a woman during pregnancy, morning sickness, it will be a girl. There is a grain of truth. Studies have shown that women suffering from morning sickness, often give birth to girls. What is the reason? The level of HCG (human chorionic gonadotropin) in women, pregnant girls, your, than during pregnancy boy. And it is this hormone triggers morning sickness. However, a woman may feel sick in the mornings, even very regularly, and if she is pregnant with the boys - this myth is true not always.

• Look at the calendar. More precisely - in the Chinese lunar calendar. It is believed that this calendar predicts the sex of the baby based on the mother's age at conception Conception - as the emerging life As well as the month in which the child was conceived. The Chinese lunar calendar has been around for at least two and a half thousand years, and there are many references to the fact that it can really manage to correctly identify the sex of the child. However, modern scholars believe that the accuracy in determining sex using the calendar is not higher than the usual guessing - that is, the probability of getting the correct answer about fifty-fifty.
• Weight father. If future father during his wife's pregnancy is gaining weight in the family born daughter. On the relationship between the weight of the father (or mother) with the child's sex is no any specific data. However, in one study, scientists have noticed that men who have recently born girls, on average, weigh more than younger fathers of boys. These data can be taken note of, but not enough to make specific findings.

More reliable methods for determining the sex of the child

At the eighteenth-twentieth week of pregnancy, a baby's sex can be found during ultrasound. If, during the procedure, the doctor will be able to see well the crotch of the child (and this depends on what position will the child), the floor will be determined with an accuracy of 80-90%.

Amniocentesis and chorionic villus sampling - more accurate methods of determining the sex of the child, but these invasive procedures can be performed only in cases of suspected genetic disorders or chromosomal abnormalities such as Down syndrome. With the DNA test of the fetus in the mother's blood, too, can learn the sex of the baby, but these tests are very expensive, and are usually carried out only in specialized laboratories, and only for research purposes.

Related Articles

Boy or girl: the eternal debate