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Whether a baby will turn out to be a boy or a girl will depend mainly on whether the sperm cell of the father that fertilized the mothers egg had a dominant female X or a dominant male Y chromosome. Usually expectant mothers need to wait until the second trimester before they can have a baby gender DNA test to find out the gender of their baby. However many want to find out early and there is an old-wives-tale test which involves mixing some urine with boiling red cabbage. Other old wive’s tales tests include the Drano test, the ring test and the Chinese Calender.
The cabbage test has been found to be at least 55 percent accurate.
The cabbage baby gender test is a method which has been used by many generations. In a pot, pregnant mothers will need to mix half a head of chopped red cabbage with around 450ml of boiling water. After around 11 minutes at a simmer the cabbage water will turn a deep purple color and be ready to carry out its rudimentary test of a mother’s urinary pH.
Expectant mothers will then need to strain the liquid of all the cabbage and then a mixture will need to be prepared which will consist of equal parts urine and cabbage water. Research has found that many mothers use a morning sample and mix this with the cabbage water as this is when the concentration will be at its highest.
If the cabbage water turns red then a boy is on the way and if the cabbage water turns pink then this means you will have a girl. However it is important to point out that other wives tales think that the color coding will actually be the other way around and that purple means a boy and faded means a girl.
The science behind it
Medical experts have shied away from stating their opinions with regard to the cabbage gender test. Many doctors have stated that there is a big difference in pH levels across all women, particularly when they are pregnant which is a factor that can either fade or leave cabbage water purple. Therefore an ultrasound appears to be the preferred way of determining the gender of a baby. Make sure you have reached the right stage of pregnancy before trying any type of gender prediction test. Online pregnancy calculators can help provide you with information about your due date and how many weeks pregnant you have been on a given date.
There are also a variety of other websites which help mothers to determine the gender of their baby. It is thought that the mothers of girls and the mothers of boys experience pregnancy in different ways. These websites refer to characteristics such as whether their legs have got hairier or if they are craving meats, sweets, fruits or savouries.
Baby Gender Prediction through DNA testing
The sex of the baby can be determine with an accuracy as high as 99% by means of a DNA Baby gender test carried out in a laboratory through a process known as Polymerase chain reaction. Samples can be collected at home and submitted to the laboratory for testing. This highly scientific technique is carried out by a DNA scientists will be able to detect male or female DNA, or rather, Y chromosome specific markers or X chromosome specific markers. You will be able to obtain an accurate result that determines the baby’s gender early in pregnancy. (A Y chromosome markers (Male Gene) would indicate that you are expecting a boy, while the absence of it would indicate that you are expecting a girl)