Finding out you are pregnant is probably the most exciting yet worrying time of your life. As you learn to trust your body is doing all it can to help your fetus develop. Your mind may wander to the gender of your unborn baby. Male or female? But what happens if you do sneak peek too early?
So What Happens if you do Sneak Peek Too Early?
Taking a Sneak Peek test too early can hinder your results. Typically you can only detect genitalia on an anomaly scan from around 20 weeks. Sneak Peek tests are becoming more popular as they can detect the presence of a Y chromosome from as early as 6 weeks. If you test any earlier then your results will be unreliable.
Pregnancy and Gender
We live in a society where the need for patience is becoming less and less. You saw an item online, ordered and received it by that evening! You are rarely made to wait for much anymore so when it comes to being pregnant it feels alien to be made to wait to find out the gender of your baby. You find yourself continuously ticking away those weeks, counting down to dating scans, midwife appointments, anomaly scans, and finally the birth.
With this agonizing wait, it hasn’t taken long for scientists to figure out how to unveil the biggest question within pregnancy. Is it a boy or a girl?
The Science
Testing using sneak peek is very straightforward. An unborn fetus’ DNA is present in your blood from around 7 weeks. Therefore testing your blood can indicate which chromosome is present, the test searches for a Y chromosome that would only be present if you are carrying a little boy, if the Y chromosome is absent then the result will indicate you are in fact pregnant with a little girl.
How is the Sneak Peek Test Performed?
Sneak Peak offers two styles of testing kits. One is the finger prick and the other is known as the snap device.
The first test we shall put under the microscope is the finger prick test. Firstly you have to clean your index finger with a rigorous regime. This will help get rid of any Y Chromosomes you may have come into contact with. After that, a small pinprick to your finger and a forceful squeeze will help the blood come to the surface ready to be collected.
This works better when you have warmer hands! Also, be careful if you are in a house full of boys then their Y Chromosomes can be everywhere meaning that they could alter the testing results.
The other test would be using something called a snap device. This attaches to your upper arm after you have again sanitized the area to prevent contamination of results. Many people prefer this way of testing because Sneak Peek declares it is pain free. In fact the creators of the snap test have had 90% of women report a painless blood collection. This is down to the size of the needle used, super tiny needles are thought to be less invasive and therefore less painful.
In my opinion, I think I would opt for the snap test. Not only is it less invasive but the likelihood of coming into contact with a Y chromosome on your fingertips is quite high whereas your upper arm may be less so. Obviously both sites have the same sanitizing routine but I feel unless my husband directly touched my arm after cleaning there would be no risk of contaminated results, whereas you can miss areas on your finger which are more likely to pick up this DNA.
How Early Can You Take Sneak Peek Test?
You are eligible to take a sneak peek test once you have hit the 6 week mark. Any earlier and your results may be biased.
Testing your blood from 6 weeks will detect the Y marker in your blood if you are carrying a little boy. The sneak peak guarantee is a sure way of them identifying the correct gender. They deem their testing 99.9% accurate from 8 weeks, if a mistake is made and you have been told the opposite gender to what you are carrying then you can expect a 100% money back guarantee. That is clearly a product that you can put your faith in surely.
Sneak Peek Results
This section we will look at the sneak peek early gender test accuracy. We have just discovered they offer a money back guarantee if your test is incorrect, which means that this is a possibility. But with a 99.9% accuracy rate how can you get incorrect results?
What happens if you do sneak peek too early? It states that you should only perform the test from 6 weeks so testing too early could indicate the wrong result. The further you are in your pregnancy the more reliable your result will be. This is because markers are more clear in a mom’s blood as her pregnancy progresses.
Contamination is also another form of obtaining inaccurate results. You are performing this test at home meaning your surroundings are not as sterile as a lab. If you are in a house full of males then this test needs to be off limits to them, ensure you are the only one to handle the parts and perform the test yourself. This will limit any Y DNA from contaminating the results.
Wrapping Up
So, what happens if you take sneak peek too early?
Of course, you can get the wrong result. There will still be a 50-50% chance the result will be correct but if you are carrying a male then their Y DNA markers won’t present themselves until further in your pregnancy. The best possible time to take these tests has been identified to be 7 weeks but you can take one from 6 weeks.
My best advice is to wait till at least 8 weeks by this point you can be 99.9% sure they will predict the correct gender.
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