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This is where a lot of people diverge in opinion. Some think the 1st tri scan/genetics is a push for abortion, while others says if bad news is found they want time to gather info/resources/doctors to best set up for the life their kiddo may have. So I think it comes down to: would you rather know if something unfortunate happened? Would you rather have time to learn about the disease and find resources, or would knowing send you into a spiral?
I don’t think you should make decisions about the rest of the appointments and everything because of this without further discussion with your partner.
Also, fyi, you don’t typically learn the gender in the nuchal scan, you learn it from the bloodwork results. The baby isn’t big enough for gender to be seen on ultrasound until closer to 20 weeks gestation.
It’s not 100% accurate at this length of time. Some people get the wrong gender assessed and later find out the opposite it’s happened a lot
That is not correct - they test your blood and if there are any Y chromosomes then it's a boy and if there are no Y chromosomes in the blood then it's a girl. The sensitivity is so good now that they can do it anytime after 6 weeks. There aren't really false assessments with blood tests (although if you do one of the at home ones and it gets contaminated it can be incorrect).
It’s not 100% but it’s >99%
They said in another comment they are also doing the NIPT, which would give them accurate gender at this stage (you are correct about finding via scan though)
For a blood test?
It depends on the amount of fetal cells in the mother’s blood, which is determined as part of the testing. If the number of fetal cells are high enough, it’s very accurate.