Has Anyone Tried The Heart Rate Method To Determine Gender?

Congratulations, I may have missed it before, but I get it you are expecting a baby…

Lurve to you….

it’s 50% reliable.

Congrats! Here it says “In reality, fetal heart rate changes all the time during a pregnancy, influenced most by the baby’s age and how they move—but not by the gender,” says Lisa Bartholomew, MD, an expert in maternal-fetal medicine at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Indeed, Bartholomew tells WebMD that the average fetal heart rate during mid-pregnancy can range from 120 to 160 beats per minute, for both boys and girls.

Interestingly, however, a study published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology in 1999 revealed that the baby’s sex does influence heart rate during the labor process, with the hearts of little girls waiting to be born beating faster than those of little boys.”

According to the heart rate method, our son would have been a girl. They say girls have higher heartrates, and my sons was always above 170. I’d actually consider 156 to be fairly “low” because I believe normal is 140 and up (or is it 120???)

All those gender predictors indicated we were having a girl, from the ring test, to the Intelligender, the heart rate, chinese gender calender. But, I most definitely had a boy!

I’ve had two ultrasounds, and the first ulltrasound the baby’s heartrate was in the 140s, and yesterday at 12 weeks the baby’s heartrate was 165… For me, it doesn’t mean squat since my sons heartrate was always super high and he was a boy.

The only thing that can determine the true 100% sex of your baby is something like this .
Heartbeat changes all the time , like stress excitement and what not all make the heart beat slower or faster .
So no i wouldn’t trust the heartbeat method .

@sandystrachan from that site’s FAQ:
“15) Can you tell me the sex of my baby?

This is optional and only possible if the baby is in a position where the sex can be easily identifiable. We cannot guarantee an accurate diagnosis of your baby’s sex.”

The only thing that can determine the true 100% sex of your baby is waiting for it to be born.

Its not a paying optional , its just if you wanna know optional .
And they would have to put that down as a disclaimer , just incase something freakish happens during the scan .
And yes i shouldn’t have said ” the only thing that can ” it’s the 2nd thing that can cause birth is the first, but i was referring to her only chance right now is only a scan like that

The baby’s heart-rate and my ultrasound indicated a boy… and I had a girl!

Actually, an amnio or CVS would be 100% accurate before the baby is born, but I don’t know any mother that would risk that procedure, just to find out the gender.

The 20 week anatomy ultrasound can usually show the gender, it’s not just a guess by the techs…they either see a penis and scrotum or a vagina (the vagina looks like three white lines, obviously the penis looks like something protruding) My ultrasound was very accurate, and as soon as my little guys legs opened…we knew it was a boy, without the tech telling us.
It is fun to guess though!

@casheroo I don’t think anyone was suggesting an Ultrasound is a “guess”. The point is that it’s not 100% for a variety of reasons. In other words it does not logically follow that “I had an ultrasound, therefore I know the gender of my baby.” The most common reason for an inability to detect the gender is that the kid isn’t positioned correctly to catch a glimpse of between his/her legs.

One of my classmates actually did her master’s thesis research on fetal heart rate during pregnancy and gender, and there was no statistically significant correlation. Babies tend to run faster in early pregnancy, slower in later pregnancy, faster if they’re moving while you’re listening, slower if they’re sleeping, and so on.

Fetal heart rate change all the time. The 16 week Gender ultrasound scan is 98% accurate and can usually show the gender. See the ultrasound with a little guy legs opened link, it was a boy, without anybody telling us