Some weeks ago, my friend told me that she saw in a pregnancy magazine that there is now an over-the-counter baby gender test available. Yup. Not an am-I-pregnant test, but a what-am-I-having test! If that in itself didn't peak my interest enough, she said that the test could be used as early as six weeks after your first missed period / eight weeks into gestation / ten weeks pregnant. I was probably no more than four or five weeks along when she told me about it, so I just decided to file it away in the back of my mind.
I don't remember what reignited it, but last week {before we left for Christmas} I started thinking about that test again...and I decided it was time to do some research. I googled the concept and found that IntelliGender is the company who makes the test. After reading through the website and watching all of the videos, I knew that I could not not try it!
Here's some info from their website about how the gender test works {they don't reveal what chemicals are used to react with what hormones—I'm assuming this is because they don't want to help any potential competitors!}:
IntelliGender Gender Prediction Test is a simple urine analysis similar to the pregnancy test you took a few weeks ago. It uses first morning urine and a proprietary mix of chemicals which reacts with a combination of hormones to indicate the gender of your baby. It can be performed as early as 10 weeks (six weeks from the first day of the missed period). It only takes ten minutes for the results. It is an easy test to perform and provides quick results in-home so the news can be shared right away.
Laboratory results show 90% accuracy and real world studies indicate 82%. IntelliGender regularly commissions independent surveys to compare real world results with laboratory results and the test is constantly being monitored for improvements.
IntelliGender reminds all pregnant moms that seeing an obstetrician as early in the pregnancy is critical for the health of the mother and the baby and should follow the advice of their physician.
You simply collect first morning urine and insert into the test vessel. Swirl rapidly in a circular motion, place the test on a flat surface undisturbed for 10 minutes. Read the test at eye level and match the color to the boy or girl color chart on the test vessel. Below are examples of test results:
Read your gender result promptly at 10 minutes. If your urine has turned green to dark/smoky green, you are having a boy! If your urine stays relatively unchanged or turns a deeper yellow or orange, you are having a girl!
Intriguing, right?! I searched for where I could order the product, and found it for under $30 {with free shipping} at Overstock.com. I placed my order before we left for Christmas, and when we arrived home on Wednesday night, it was sitting on my doorstep!
I was able to test yesterday morning. Wanna see the results?

It *appears* that we're expecting a
girl!
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There are a couple reasons, though, why I can't be *too* excited at this point.
I've emailed customer service about the dark residue at the bottom because I want to make sure that it does not indicate that the test results are inaccurate or that the test didn't work. On IntelliGender's "
Sample Results" page, many of the "girl" real-life results appear to have little to no residue remaining, so that made me start second-guessing things! Hopefully I'll hear back in the next day or so; I just sent the email this morning.
The other thing, as you read above, is the test doesn't promise to be 100% accurate. Because of that I'm not holding on too tightly to the results, and rather looking at it as tipping the scale of a 50/50 chance in favor of a girl. Science has already failed me once in the gender department—and
that ultrasound result was supposed to be 99.98% accurate!—so secretly I'm praying that I'm off the hook for false results this time!
We're looking at about eight more weeks before the anatomy ultrasound, so it won't be too long before we'll {hopefully} get to confirm whether or not we're bringing "Kate" home this year!