Ramzi Theory - 97% gender accuracy at 6 weeks!

[BabyGirl2013]

Has anyone heard of this theory? Very interesting and curious to see if it really is accurate...

The Relationship Between Placental Location and Fetal Gender (Ramzi (http://hcp.obgyn.net/fetal-monitoring/content/article/1760982/1878451)

[Bimby]

Ive read all about it but it really is hard to tell by pics - Best to ask the tech scanning you at the time. I tried but still couldnt work it out properly as she said right in the middle at the back... I honestly thought mine was waaaaaay right and figured baby was a boy but baby is a girl and my placenta is now anterior so basically in the middle, slightly left. It is probably really accurate if you get told 100% where your placenta is but dont go stressing about any guesses as thats all they'll be without knowing exactly how the u/s was taken.

[rainbowflower]

I think it's accurate IF you can get a sonographer to tell you during the scan, and in my experience most will just say "baby is in the middle" and refuse to look any harder

you can't tell from scan photos alone unless you know whther they had flipped the picture or not

[atomic sagebrush]

Yes, I've heard of it and theremay be something to it, but the prob is it's really hard to get an ultrasound at that stage and the tech has to be trained in the method.

[BabyGirl2013]

Thanks for the responses! I had never heard of the theory, but it came up when Googled "left side implantation pain". I'm certain I ovulated from the left ovary. And then yesterday (5-6 dpo) I had sharp, cramping pains on the left side (lower in my uterus...not near the ovary). Which I'm hoping might be implantation pains?! Just trying to occupy myself in the 2WW :)

[atomic sagebrush]

The problem is, you can have O pain from either or both sides regardless of what side you ovulate from. Eggs develop in both ovaries every month and only the biggest one or two gets released. You may even have worse pains the side you don't O from, because the pressure doesn't get relieved.

You really, really can't tell on the basis of pains, if/where a baby implanted. It just doesn't work - the uterus is like the size of a small fist or an avocado and it's not very sensitive (be glad because pg would be a horrible event otherwise) so you can feel things one spot or the other and not even know where it's coming from - example, when women have a ruptured Fallopian tube they often have sharp pains in their shoulder blades, nowhere near the tube.

[BabyGirl2013]

Very interesting! The pain was so isolated to one side I thought for sure something was going on there. Good to know that there really isn't any way to tell.

[greeneyes]

It was right for us. It woks or u/s past 6 wks too, but by 20 wks its too late cause the placenta is too large. All I did was ask the u/s tech which side the baby was on... then I hopd she was wrong! Lmao. She wasn't. I got a boy. ;)

[BabyGirl2013]

Thanks, Greeneyes! My dr will do a first scan at 6 weeks so I'll be sure to ask during the scan. (IF I'm pregnant!)

[greeneyes]

Like I said if you don't get a 6 wks scan, other early u/s's work as well, it just harder to tell as the placenta gets larger. :)

[atomic sagebrush]

Very interesting! The pain was so isolated to one side I thought for sure something was going on there. Good to know that there really isn't any way to tell.

Yes, even if it feels like it's in one spot, that may only mean you jsut happen to have extra sensitive nerve endings there. No way to know from pains at all.

[atomic sagebrush]

Thanks, Greeneyes! My dr will do a first scan at 6 weeks so I'll be sure to ask during the scan. (IF I'm pregnant!)

Just a warning depending on where you live, they may not tell you because they are worried about gender-based abortion.