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It checks on the physical development of your baby and can detect certain congenital disorders as well as major anatomical abnormalities. 20 week scan.A 20-week ultrasound, sometimes called an anatomy scan or anomaly scan, is a prenatal ultrasound performed between 18 and 22 weeks of pregnancy. The Chinese chart that predicts your baby's sexĬHAT: Boy or girl. The only accurate way to predict if you're having a boy or a girl is to ask your sonographer at your 20-week anomaly scan – and even that isn't 100% guaranteed!īut for more fun and sometimes-spookily-right old wives' tales, click below to have some fun trying to guess if it's a boy or a girl. How else can I predict if it's a boy or a girl? Some experts think they can use subtle differences in the shape of this nub to tell the baby's sex. Skull theory revolves around the skull (as above) but nub theory looks at a little 'nub' that both boys and girls have in the early weeks of development in the womb. Although they both require a first scan photo to look for clues as to the sex of your baby, that's where the similarities end. Skull theory and nub theory seem to be the most popular ways to predict if you're having a boy or a girl. If you're dying to know your baby's sex but it's too early to tell, try one of these gender prediction tests, from the Ancient Chinese Gender Chart to Nub Theory View gallery Skull theory V nub theory: what's the difference?

Let us know in the Netmums forum if it turns out to predict the sex of your baby correctly!īoy or girl? Fun tests to predict your baby's gender 'my sister's scan look just like that and I tried to use skull theory thinking it was a girl but turns out she's having a boy'.'My girls' skulls were really round in their scan pictures.'.'I think the skull theory only works from a 20 week scan as that's when the boy starts equaling out a little more until then the heads are miles bigger than the body'.

Well I'm having a little boy due in 6 weeks.'

'Lots of people guessed girl for my 13 week scan pic as the head was so rounded.

Here are how some of their guesses lined up with the anomaly scan: Netmums users have also shared how accurate skull theory was for guessing their babies' sex in the forum. Of course, provided you know that – and won't be too disappointed if it's wrong – there's no harm in giving it a go. So, as accurate as some may find it, skull theory is nothing more than a bit of fun, similar to one of the many old wives' tales that just keeps on popping up on the subject of whether it's a boy or a girl. 'no meaningful scientific evidence of it being meaningfully accurate'. 'Until you get to maturity or at least puberty you just don't get these sexually dimorphic features of the skulls in males and females,' says Dr Killgrove.Ĭonsultant obstetrician and gynaecologist Dr Shazia Malik agrees.

The teeth (J) of males tend to be larger.

The male's gonion (I) – the most lower rear point on angle of the lower jaw bone – is more flared out and sharply angled.

The superciliary arch (H) is large and pronounced in males.

The male forehead (F) is lower and more sloping.

The mandible or lower jaw bone (E) of a male is squared, unlike a female's, which is rounded.

The zygomatic bone (D) – the cheekbone that lies under the lower eye ridge – is more pronounced on the male skull.

A male's supraorbital margin (C) – the ridge above the eyes – is round and dull.

The temporal ridge (B), which runs along the outer side of the upper skull creating the square shape of the upper head is more prominent in males than females.

The male cranial mass (A) is more blocky and big compared to the female's, which is rounder and tapers at the top.

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