How to Find Out Your Baby’s Gender – The Nub Theory Explained

For as long as people have been having babies parents has been very eager to find out the gender of their baby as soon as possible!

More often than not you’d have to wait for your 20 week scan to find out this information, if your sonographer is lucky enough to be able to find out for you!

Perhaps you’ve turned to some old wives tales to try to find out, the old ring over your belly trick or peeing into a cup of bleach! (We really wouldn’t suggest that last one for anyone to try!)

We’re going to tell you a different way which might be able to tell you the gender of your baby as early as 11 weeks into your pregnancy!

The Nub Theory has been around for quite a long time now although there is still quite a lot of confusion as to understanding how it actually works.

The way the Nub Theory works is basically ‘the angle of the dangle’. Between 11 and 14 weeks’ into your pregnancy both baby girls and baby boys have a penis-like protuberance between the legs. While they do seem extremely similar at this point the difference is how you can tell the baby’s gender! It’s all about angle at which they are pointing! The theory goes that boy’s ‘dangle’ will be 30 degrees up relative to the backbone and a girl’s is below 30 degrees.

Not everyone will be able to use the Nub Theory, it’s all to do with how much your baby wants to co-operate on the day of the scan unfortunately, the foetus must not be curled up, they need to be lying very flat. Also, it must be side on and apparently, it is better if the foetus is right side up.

Obviously sometimes the babies will fall into a bit of a ‘grey area’ and you’ll be unable to get a definitive answer.

The further into your pregnancy the more likely you are to be able to use the Nub Theory, if you are scanned at 11 weeks, it can be difficult to tell the difference between the genders. A scan at 12 weeks is around 75% accurate and at 13 weeks it’s closer to 95% accurate.

What do you think of the Nub Theory?
Has it worked for you or a someone you know?

Let us know your thoughts in the comments and share this article to anyone that might be curious to find out the gender of the baby-to-be!