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At How Many Weeks Pregnant Can You Find Out a Baby's Gender?

Published Jun,13 2017 | By Kathryn Rateliff Barr

Almost every woman with a visible baby bump has been asked whether she is having a girl or a boy. The gender of the baby is determined at conception, although differentiation of the sexual organs does not begin until the middle of the sixth week of gestation, according to the NOVA article, “How Is Sex Determined?