Gender blood test. Almost 14 weeks.
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@Lyrica I’ve already been asking and asking and they’re just disregarding it.. I did blood work and gender too, I’ve heard people and my bd just shared when his friends gf when they got the email it just immediately told them the gender. And staff just repeated telling me just have us call you. Like why can’t you just take down information. So I guess I’m not understanding once again
@Hannah Ray Oh that's really annoying. I don't know why they would deny your request if you have put the info down. My results asked me if I wanted to when I logged in to my portal but that may be just the lab I had it done with. I would maybe see if you can reach out to someone different than the people who keep disregarding what you ask. Such as if it's the nurses seeing if you can ask your specific OB or someone at the front desk for help. I'm a FTM so I've never had the gender results done anyway other than the NIPT portal so someone might have better info on how to proceed than I do. But I hope you get it figured out cause that does sound very frustrating!
My OBGYN called and said the results were in and asked if we wanted to know. They put it in a double sealed envelope so we couldnt cheat
Legally, they can not just agree to send your medical records to some random person. Do you know what company you did NIPT through? Because an email that is meant to show results for a genetic test isn't just going to say CONGRATULATIONS ITS A .... with confetti.. Its not a gender reveal test, its a genetic test that also shows gender. The email will most likely say "your results are ready" and you'll have to click on something to see it. Also, your OB isn't the one actually doing the testing. They sent out your blood to be tested and they also have to wait for the results. So maybe just wait for your OB office to call you & say they're ready and then ask them to put the gender in an envelope.
@Michelle That's kinda what I said as well. Though I believe she could do a ROI (release of info) cause you can request your medical records to be sent to a third party but it has to be on a formal form. Though I think they can do the envelope and give it to her and she could give it to them. If it's nipt and they have access to the portal they can do that. I never got an email though for mine because I had to request them to release the info since they waited on my OB who took forever
When your results are ready, Your OB will call you and let you know they are ready… they WONT give you results unless you ask. They won’t tell you the gender without you giving permission. What you can tell Them is “please print the results and put them in a blank envelope, we will do doing a gender reveal and i will pick up the blank envelope and i will hand it to my sister in law and she will plan something for us. Thank you so much” No need to panic, most Offices are VERY good about not spilling the results without clarifying. They aren’t gonna to blurt out the gender they will call you to tell you the results are in
I'm curious if they are concerned with a HIPPA violation. I know where I work which is a medical center you have to give approval to have your private health information and usually that's a written request where you state in writing the person who is getting that info. Do you know if you are getting your nipt results over email or is it a blood test your Ob did? The way my results came in is I logged into a portal for my nipt with the lab that I did it with and I could choose to see the gender. If it is that way you could give your sister in law the logins. Maybe asking them if you can give approval in writing or an email/patient portal info they would be able to then call your sister in law.