These new tests rely on … Obviously we are now a bit worried that we have been given false results! Many expectant parents are impatient to learn if they are having a boy or a girl. X Sperm and Y Sperm Non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) is an optional blood test you can do in your first trimester (anytime after week 10) that looks for chromosomal abnormalities in baby, like Down syndrome, trisomy 18 and trisomy 13. Just got my Nipt yesterday ! That I wanted to say that NIPT is ACCURATE. Jessica • Tue, Oct 27. Offering NIPT where the accuracy is low or unknown . Baby-gender prediction kits. However, I had my 20 week scan today & the technicians (after several opinions) all agreed that we are having a boy! But even though it can’t tell for sure whether your baby has a genetic abnormality, it is highly accurate — 97 to 99 percent accuracy for three of the most common conditions. If no male chromosomes are detected in the blood sample, the baby is a girl! Subject: Accuracy of gender prediction with NIPT test Anonymous I thought I read that if this is you had an earlier child that was a boy, there is a tiny chance of a false boy reading if the baby is actually a girl due to the earlier baby's DNA possibly remaining in your blood. @LOTON01 , sorry for the drama and hope you get your confirmation soon. Assuming 50 pregnant women are tested every year, 21 of these will avoid invasive testing. I gave birth to my baby boy on Monday 2 November 2020 (I was 38 weeks pregnant). Posted 12/22/2020. A 2017 systematic review of NIPT in singleton pregnancies found that the sensitivity and specificity of NIPT for fetal sex is 0.989 and 0.996, respectively. DNA Tests, Fetal Heart Rate, Chinese Gender Chart, the Drano Test, and more. I was roughly 10+6 weeks pregnant when I went in for my NIPT. I am eagerly waiting for the 20 week scan. Hi all! breannamontanez1113. FWIW, I had the NIPT blood draw at 11 weeks and then had an (unrelated) ultrasound at 16 weeks which confirmed it was accurate, but most people will confirm at the 20 week anatomy scan. Thanks in advance It’s super accurate. Maternal blood samples taken in gestational week 7 or later provide more reliable results than blood samples taken before week 7. If it said girl that means there was no Y chromosome. Vision is a more accurate test. Wrong NIPT gender?! NIPT Gender Accuracy . Nipt provides the most accurate testing for the baby’s gender with a 99% accuracy rate. 1 Reply. My doc advised for NIPT for down syndrome (no histories as such). But if your NIPT says it's a girl, then its >98% or so it'll be a girl. The sensitivity of the test is 98.9% and the specificity 99.6%. However the Harmony test has a higher chance of an accurate gender result. Recently a string of unusual pregnancy cases have been reported, which are so atypical in some instances that they were thought to be impossible! I am 15+3 today. Odds of having another boy or girl. The positive and negative predictive values are correspondingly high, 99.6% and 98.8% respectively. Diagnostic accuracy of NIPT for foetal sex determination is very high. Using cutting-edge technology, these gender reveal tests are 99.1% accurate as early as 8 weeks pregnant—weeks earlier than a doctor-ordered NIPT test. It showed female with no abnormalities. Finding out the gender was a bonus! Hi all, Just wondered if anyone had a wrong gender result from their NIPT test. I’ve never heard of a false NIPT test for gender Gender accuracy in NIPT? The test would provide a more accurate result for Down syndrome than the older screening tests. Done last week at 14 weeks me... and mourned my loss what appeared to be terrible.... Beautiful and full of smiles. Gender Selection (IUI/IVF) PGD and Sperm Sorting with MicroSort and Ericsson. We did not do genetic testing on our only embryo during IVF, so finding out if our baby was genetically normal was on my priority list. If it says boy that means it picked up a Y chromosome in your blood which otherwise wouldn’t be there. Accuracy for detecting other sex chromosome anomalies varies by condition. If you know you aren’t going to have NIPT, CVS or amnio and you simply can’t wait until your second trimester ultrasound to find out what you're having, gender prediction kits are another way to predict your baby's sex (though they aren't particularly accurate, and they often raise more questions than answers). A small 2% (IIRC) chance that it could be a boy. They said they had never heard of anyone having the wrong gender on the NIPT & so were worried about the results being mixed up or something! ... I’m having a boy too!