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Determining the Sex of the Baby in Wild West Way

Today by spending just $ 200 you can determine the sex of the baby in just eight weeks into pregnancy . There are countless companies offering sex determination tests in the market today but experts But experts are not only skeptical about the accuracy of such tests, they are also worried about the possible adverse psychological impact on parents.

Jolene Sodano had two sons and wanted her third child to be a girl preferably. She ordered a test called Tell Me Pink or Blue. It promised her an answer just eight weeks into her pregnancy. Sodano, pricked her finger, dripped a few drops of blood on a special paper strip and shipped it off to the manufacturer's California lab. In return, Sodano received a certificate, bordered in blue that said: "Congratulations, you're having a boy."

There are many such companies in the market now that claim they can tell the sex of the baby as early as five or six weeks into pregnancy. There is also a test called CVS, they take out amniotic fluid at 9 weeks to test for diseases and they can test that fluid as well to determine the sex and it is just as accurate as the amniocentisis through the stomach.

These new methods which have no regulatory control are disturbing indeed. This can result in the termination of pregnancies in cases where the sex of the baby is not according to preference. There are still doubts on the accuracy of the tests. The experts are also concerned about the psychological aspect of these tests. If you have bonded with the fetus thinking its a boy and it turns out to be girl there could be negativity in the mind set.

It's sort of a Wild West out there," says medical geneticist Diana Bianchi of the Tufts-New England Medical Center in Boston. "We've been tracking their websites to see what they're selling," she says. "They're basically quoting articles from my lab and other people's labs. They're kind of using smoke and mirrors to say that these tests are scientific." '"/>




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