![]() ![]() So that’s probably something he’ll tell a therapist about one day.)Īfter thorough hand washing and alcohol swabbing, you prick your finger (I ended up needing to prick two) and fill about 10 drops of blood into a small vial. ![]() (I didn’t plan so well for that so while my husband was on a Zoom call I’m fiercely threatening my son not to take one step closer while I gently squeeze blood into a vial. That’s because it’s looking for male chromosomes in your blood sample, and if they’re absent, it’s a girl. They say to keep all males outside of the room. There’s a rushed version that gets it to you even faster.įirst, absolutely NO boys allowed near the test. Ironically, this was quicker than my husband’s COVID-19 test results! And I did the standard timeline. I took the test and mailed off the sample by Wednesday, and we held our virtual gender reveal with a few family members that Sunday. I bought the at-home kit for $79 on a Friday, and the small kit was at my door on Monday. I could find out my baby’s sex as early as 8 weeks pregnant! And being completely administered at home, it was a great option amidst a pandemic. The test we did in 2016 was no longer an option for us (it became much more expensive for elective tests) but thanks to facebook algorithms, I had stumbled on Sneak Peek’s Early Gender DNA Test. What better celebration of life than finding out if we would be welcoming a baby boy or girl later this fall? Quarantine or not, a gender reveal we would have. When he turned the corner and was healthy again (I’ll never forget that first family hug!), we felt the need to celebrate. I was a nervous wreck over his health, keeping our toddler son and myself healthy while battling terrible early pregnancy nausea and exhaustion, holding down a full time job and a part time business. I delivered food, drink and medicine around the clock on a table outside the room. For 7+ days he suffered from a relentless and scary high fever and was further quarantined to our bedroom for 2 weeks. Not long after our quarantine began, my husband got sick. I found out I was pregnant again just two weeks before the COVID-19 shutdowns began in the U.S. So no party with blue fireworks was possible (not that we had planned on that, we were saving for a baby after all). But the nurse who called with the results refused to give them to anyone but me and only over the phone. We had elected for a test through our OB’s office that ran several genetic tests as well as predicted gender with almost certain accuracy. ![]() With my first pregnancy I found out we were having a boy on Tuesday afternoon in between meetings at work and told my husband later that evening when I got home. ![]()
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