​Boy or girl?​ LEA PATERSON/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY
Boy or girl? Pregnant women can now find out the sex of their fetus with a simple finger-prick test.
Until recently, expectant ​mothers usually had to wait until a mid-pregnancy ultrasound to find out their future child’s sex.
But in the last few years, increasing numbers of people have been finding out from a first-trimester blood test – called the  – that also detects Down’s Syndrome.
The test works by analysing fragments of the fetus’s DNA that have leaked into the mother’s bloodstream. It involves collecting…
