early gender determination options UK??

[baby2016baby]

Hello everyone, hope you are well wherever you are in your gender dreaming journey.

I am very early (5w5d) pregnant with my 4th baby, and I am considering one of the early gender choices. I am in the UK and it seems the reviews are mixed on the choices here. All the NIPT tests appear to be "overseen" by UK companies who then ship the blood off to America or China and add a lot on in the process!

Would be great to hear from anyone in the UK who is more clued up than me and could suggest some options. Not sure I can wait till 16 weeks, but unwilling to pay out the £650+ for the serenity. Have looked at nimble etc but reviews are very mixed. Messaged sneek peek but its only available in the USA, they wont ship to UK. Ive seen on some posts that people have sent blood themselves to USA companies but I cant seem to get any information. What will everyone else be doing/have done in the past?

Thanks in advance

[1282]

Congratulations on your pregnancy [emoji2] I went here for the Harmony test with my 3rd child, cost £400 if done in 10th week, are you near London?

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[baby2016baby]

Thanks but sadly no I am not, I am in the very north east, closest is leeds and they are quoting me over £600 for harmony and with having three kids currently off school for next 5.5 weeks travelling to London is not an option

I will keep searching......I can see me having to wait for 16 week scan xxx

[squigglepink]

Hi

Dont know if this helps you at all.. Baby Scan Leeds, sexing scan leeds, Early pregnancy scan Leeds - Packages - BUT, they only seem to do gender test at 15 weeks so you might aswell wait out the extra week!

[baby2016baby]

Thanks squiggle I was really hoping someone knew of somewhere doing the blood tests for a more reasonable price. I read somewhere were a woman had sent her blood to America for harmony/panorama and it worked about £200 but I can't for the life of me find the post and Google's spitting nothing up! Xxx

[MrsSparkles]

I looked into Harmony too, and it was around £600
Their prices have gone into orbit

[Babygirlquest]

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[naturediva]

Thanks squiggle I was really hoping someone knew of somewhere doing the blood tests for a more reasonable price. I read somewhere were a woman had sent her blood to America for harmony/panorama and it worked about £200 but I can't for the life of me find the post and Google's spitting nothing up! Xxx

Hi baby2016baby, did you ever find any information on sending blood to America for harmony/panorama? I'm currently looking into exactly the same thing (prices privately in the UK are too high!) and have come up completely empty handed. If you made any headway, I'd love to hear about it. Thanks!