Are Home Gender Predictor Tests Accurate?
Unless you're crazy choosing not to find out the sex of your baby until birth, the big 20-week ultrasound is one of the biggest highlights of your pregnancy. If you're anything like me, you're overly anxious as soon as you find out you're pregnant.
By the time the gender reveal happens, you're more than ready to find out. So every day until the ultrasound you spend trying to figure out the gender of your baby for yourself.
Chinese Gender Charts and Online Gender Predictor Quizzes
I completed all (and I'm pretty sure that means every one I could get my hands on) the popular online quizzes. I did the Chinese gender charts and tested out old wives tales for gender prediction.
All in an effort to find the sex of the baby I was carrying. The Chinese gender chart said based on my lunar age of 30 (I was 28 when I conceived) that the baby would be a girl.
The string test old wives tale also said, girl. I got a lot of girl results from the free online tests.
Were the online tests right at gender prediction? Keep reading to find out!
And if that wasn't enough, I started looking for other methods for finding out the sex. I tried all of these things with my oldest and had mixed results with her.
So this pregnancy, I decided to up the ante. I found two tests that each claimed to be accurate and involve my urine, so they have to accurate, right?
Wrong! Each test had different results and only one of them was right.
Intelligender Gender Test
The first test I did was at 10 weeks and is the highly publicized and widely available Intelligender
. The directions were pretty straight forward and I followed them to a tee, waiting six grueling weeks until I was 10 weeks pregnant before adding my urine to the cup and swirling it with their magical formula.
The bottle has different colors on each side – yellow/orangish to represent girl and brown/green for boy. My Intelligender test results were a murky looking color which, according to the instructions, indicated boy. The test claims 90% accuracy when the directions are followed explicitly.
Cabbage Gender Test
The next test I did was one that's not quite as popular except on the online birth boards. I did the cabbage gender test at 14 weeks which involves boiling purple cabbage (my first time even buying it) and mixing your urine with some of the cabbage water.
The resulting water is supposed to indicate the sex of the baby based on your urine's pH levels. Pink/red = boy, purple = girl. My results for this test weren't hard to read and were clearly showing girl with a bright purple result.
On one hand, you have a test that claims 90% accuracy and suggested I was pregnant with a boy. On the other, a not so well known test showing I'm pregnant with a girl.
Baking Soda Gender Test
The last test I did was the baking soda gender test. You're supposed to collect some of your urine and combine with baking soda, then wait to see whether or not the baking soda/urine mix fizzes for your results.
Fizzy = boy, no reaction = girl. I didn't get any fizzing with mine so the baking soda gender test is saying girl.
This method is probably along the same lines as the cabbage gender test and is the fizzing is based on pH levels.
So which of these tests was right? Surprisingly the cabbage gender test accuracy seems to be confirmed as does the baking soda gender test after my 20-week ultrasound confirmed we were having another girl.
Which of the at home gender prediction tests worked or didn't work for you?
I too was always so excited to find out the gender.
Congratulations on another girl.
I just used the ultrasound. I never even thought to check it in an old-fashioned way, but that would have been fun!
We only took the intelligender and it was correct : )
I just did the U/S and the needle and thread thing, which was correct!!!
So funny that the non-scientific tests were all accurate and the one you actually had to pay for was wrong. 🙂
You are the only person I know that has taken it and it’s been right. I hope it works for you next time too!
Thanks, Crystal!
Some of the other methods are pretty outlandish and involve Drain-o. I just couldn’t imagine the accuracy of those but the rest were fun. Definitely made the time pass thinking I could try a new at home test every few weeks.
It’s so weird how the needle and thread thing is right. I’m a little undecided on whether or not to definitely think it’s a girl. The doctor did another u/s today and said he couldn’t really tell anything which would indicate girl but you never know.
I know, right? There’s also a baking soda one that I did but the pics were less than exciting but it was technically right too. I can’t wait til you get pregnant and we can compare!
IOh I almost tried the Drain-o back when I was prego. How fun that you did all this. Congrats on a gril!!! (maybe) All these tests stand a 50% accuracy rate. Consumer Reports should do a study! 🙂
wow, congrats on a girl! not a gril…
I wish you had done the Drain-O test – I’d be curious to see the results. I might have to pick some up next time I’m at the store to try this out. I just never buy the stuff to have it laying around.
Someone looked at me and said “You are having a boy” and she was right…so I guess first impressions worked for me? Everyone else guessed girl because I have a boy and in my husband’s family everyone has a boy first then a girl, but this woman looked at me and just knew.
I wish I had that gift – it’d save me a lot of time and anxiety. There’s only like 2 people I know that have one of each sex – everyone else has 2 of the same sex. It’s so backwards. All of my cousins on my dad’s side are girl first and then boy. I was an only child so we don’t know if it would have been true for me and on my mom’s side she’s the oldest and has a younger brother. You just never can tell!
I used the intellegender and I couldn’t read the results. I have my ultrasound to confirm gender on December 12 so I will let you know!
My sister took the intelligender as well and her ultrasound confirmed it was correct and she was having a boy. I took the same test and it said I’m having a boy as well but I’m hoping it’s wrong, LOl.