Once that pregnancy test comes back positive, parents usually google the same question — how early can you find out the gender of your baby?
While old wives' tales and gender predictor charts are fun and generally harmless, they by no means provide a definitive answer on your baby's gender. How long it takes find out the gender of your baby depends on a few factors, particularly your comfort level with prenatal testing, both invasive and non.
Baby gender — how long does it take to know?
Baby gender accuracy
Tests and old wives' tales have varying degrees of accuracy when it comes to finding out the gender of your baby. Any method that falls under the "old wives' tales" category should be used only for fun. There's no reason to believe they are any more accurate than a simple guess.
NIPT claims a gender-prediction accuracy of more than 99 percent. CVS and amniocentesis are even higher.
Not sure you want to know your baby's gender before birth? You're not alone. Plenty of parents wait until their bundle of joy is born to be surprised.
