Are you having a baby boy or girl? Your blood pressure may hold the answer
Scientists may have debunked every old wive's tale about an unborn child’s gender ever.
If you’ve ever been pregnant, you may have found out, then madly jumped online to search things like "gender prediction chart", or even tried to hunt down a baby gender predictor calculator.
Well, new research published in the [American Journal of Hypertension](https://academic.oup.com/ajh/article-abstract/doi/10.1093/ajh/hpw165/2835699/Maternal-Blood-Pressure-Before-Pregnancy-and-Sex?redirectedFrom=fulltext |target="_blank"|rel=”nofollow”) has found that there may just be another way of discovering if you’re having a baby girl or boy that'll cause you to step away from your clogged-up Google history.
According to Medical Daily and The Independent, taking into account lifestyle factors like smoking and cholesterol levels, researchers tested the blood pressure of almost 1,500 women in China, who wanted to fall pregnant.
What they found was that the pre-conception blood pressure of these women was 2.6 per cent [higher when they gave birth to boys than with girls](http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/mother-blood-pressure-woman-before-conception-sex-child-baby-boy-girl-gender-study-endocrinologist-a7523861.html |target="_blank"|rel=”nofollow”).
However, as reported by Harper’s BAZAAR Australia, Dr Dasha Fielder of Sapphire Family Medical Practice in Bondi Junction believes this is almost impossible.
“The gender of a baby is determined by the father, not the mother. Women can only contribute X chromosome, (a female is XX, and a man is XY) therefore it is the man that determines the gender,” she says.
“It is simply physiologically not possible for a female to affect the sex of the baby,” she explains.
It seems time, and lots more research, will be the judge…
