Help protect children from gaming harms.

Take our survey

Please or to access all these features

News

Pregnant with girl or boy? At-home test may tell you

5 replies

disillusionedmum · 09/06/2009 14:16

edition.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/06/09/gender.prediction.test/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

well? Would you want to know?

OP posts:
midnightexpress · 09/06/2009 14:20

Sounds a bit dodgy to me. In this area there is a policy of not telling parents at scans. I would worry that people might use it for gender-selection purposes.

Geepers · 09/06/2009 14:25

I bought one of those kits last year. The general consensus on a forum I was using was that they seemed to be accurate. I couldn't interpret the results of mine properly, maybe because I was expecting boy/girl twins. The first test I did seemed to indicate two girls, the second that at least one baby was male.

disillusionedmum · 09/06/2009 15:33

The people behind the kis claim they will NOT sell it in countries where there is a cultural preference for one gender mainly boys ..yeah right...anyways i don't think the accuracy can ever be 100%..even sonogram readings aren't always right..

OP posts:
rubyslippers · 09/06/2009 15:35

they can't work

only an amnio can tell for sure IIRC, even scans can be wrong

I wouldn't use it

Flibbertyjibbet · 09/06/2009 15:50

The article says the accuracy is 78-80%.
So its basically inaccurate and not worth wasting your money on.

New posts on this thread. Refresh page