Gannet Posted May 30, 2009 Report Share Posted May 30, 2009 Hi all as most pregnant ladies have seen there is now a test that tells you the sex of your baby, well i did some research on how this works, so why pay the $135 to get one, when most if not all fish people have what is needed at home. my partner is pregnant and we are getting out 20 week scan soon to find out what we r having, but throught we would put this to the test, and then check it against the scan. so for all you pregnant fish keepers out there get a pH test kit and test you Pee and if you hav acid = girl (orange yellow) and if your alkine = boy (green/blue) If you get the result girl your most likely having a girl. but theres still 20-30% which it may be the wrong result. for best results only drink water for the day before you test you pee as if you drink heaps of coke your pee will be acidic. if your going to have a sexing scan as well its only something fun to what result you get. but as with every thing its not 100% i got my partner to do it last night and we got a boy result, so now we r waiting 3 more weeks till we get a scan will get back to you then to see if it was right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LYNDYLOO Posted May 30, 2009 Report Share Posted May 30, 2009 Wow, now thats interesting, never heard of it before :roll Good Luck with the scan, will be interesting to see what the outcome will be Is this your first?? I had 4 Boys in 5 years so busy busy, oldest is turning 21 next month, really cant believe 21yrs has past, bit frightening really :roll: youngest is 16, and they're all still at home, cant seem to get rid of them, I must be doing something right. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stella Posted May 30, 2009 Report Share Posted May 30, 2009 hmm.... I am not great with maths but.... Simply guessing has a 50:50 chance of being right/wrong anyway. This test claims a 20-30% chance of the answer being wrong. Looks to me like it actually tells you nothing. Any number of things in the mother's diet could affect this. A urinary tract infection would also indicate one sex or t'other, I can't remember which. And it seems highly unlikely that the sex of the baby would be able to change something about the mother like that. About as believable as saying acid urine means the baby will have brown eyes. Of course wit ha 50:50 chance, the website will be teeming with people saying how it was accurate. (the scans all said I was a boy, but the wedding-ring pendulum said I was a girl - the pendulum must be more accurate! :roll: ) Good thing you didn't pay the $135. Of course there is no harm in a little fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Posted May 30, 2009 Report Share Posted May 30, 2009 Hi all as most pregnant ladies have seen there is now a test that tells you the sex of your baby, well i did some research on how this works, so why pay the $135 to get one, when most if not all fish people have what is needed at home. my partner is pregnant and we are getting out 20 week scan soon to find out what we r having, but throught we would put this to the test, and then check it against the scan. so for all you pregnant fish keepers out there get a pH test kit and test you Pee and if you hav acid = girl (orange yellow) and if your alkine = boy (green/blue) If you get the result girl your most likely having a girl. but theres still 20-30% which it may be the wrong result. for best results only drink water for the day before you test you pee as if you drink heaps of coke your pee will be acidic. if your going to have a sexing scan as well its only something fun to what result you get. but as with every thing its not 100% i got my partner to do it last night and we got a boy result, so now we r waiting 3 more weeks till we get a scan will get back to you then to see if it was right. It's too bad noone has developed some kind of device that can be used to see inside the human body and examine the parasite growing inside and then reliably tell you what the gender is.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilli Posted May 30, 2009 Report Share Posted May 30, 2009 congrates :bounce: im not finding out with my baby might make me push it out faster if i dont no what it is :lol: had the scan with first one (which was a girl) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinytawnykitten Posted May 31, 2009 Report Share Posted May 31, 2009 I'm 25 weeks pregnant with a boy so I'm going to check this as soon as we get home to see if it says boy. Good luck for your scan!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caryl Posted June 3, 2009 Report Share Posted June 3, 2009 I remember vaguely an article in Readers' Digest many years ago on how to help get the gender you wanted when trying to get pregnant. I would like to say it worked but since I had a 50/50 chance of the same result anyway (and didn't have further kids to test more exstensively) I can't confirm definitely but it was to do with eating acidic or alkaline foods too depending on which sex you wanted. There was a lot more involved too like frequency and timing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twinkles Posted June 3, 2009 Report Share Posted June 3, 2009 if thats all the test is, what a rip and why all the excitement over it when the means have been available for years? I guess the ph thing must be some new discovery Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave+Amy Posted June 3, 2009 Report Share Posted June 3, 2009 the logic being high glucose levels in the uterus kills female embryos shortly after fert...so high alkaline = high glucose = boy same research done on rhinos... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southerrrngirrl Posted June 3, 2009 Report Share Posted June 3, 2009 the logic being high glucose levels in the uterus kills female embryos shortly after fert...so high alkaline = high glucose = boy same research done on rhinos... Thats interesting.. why does the high glucose levels kill female embryos only? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twinkles Posted June 3, 2009 Report Share Posted June 3, 2009 isn't it something to do with it being more productive in times of plenty to have girl babies to pass on your genes, and when there's not much food to have boys, or the other way round? i don't remember. Point being certain levels of nutrients in the blood, and stress levels etc, are supposed to affect which sex baby a woman can carry, so that her genes have the best chance of being passed on to grandchildren. There's some smarter biology people here who can probably explain it better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave+Amy Posted June 4, 2009 Report Share Posted June 4, 2009 isn't it something to do with it being more productive in times of plenty to have girl babies to pass on your genes, and when there's not much food to have boys, or the other way round? i don't remember. Point being certain levels of nutrients in the blood, and stress levels etc, are supposed to affect which sex baby a woman can carry, so that her genes have the best chance of being passed on to grandchildren. There's some smarter biology people here who can probably explain it better. well spoken that's why they were failing with black (or was it white?) rhino conservation - enriched feeding meant an abundance in male rhinos born which isn't much help to conservation :roll: and male babies need a higher nutrient while in the womb - something crazy like 90% of male foetuses spontaneously abort without women even knowing they were pregnant Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stella Posted June 4, 2009 Report Share Posted June 4, 2009 Also the vast majority of pregnancies are spontaneously aborted without the woman ever knowing she was pregnant. And most pregnancies started as twins (fraternal I think). There are more boys than girls conceived, but boys are less viable than girls. At birth there it is 51% boys, 49% girls, then a year later it is the other way around. (For someone who doesn't like being around kids and never wants to have them, I find reproduction far too interesting...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gannet Posted June 23, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 23, 2009 Just had our 20 week scan, and we are having a BOY!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wok Posted June 23, 2009 Report Share Posted June 23, 2009 you do know that there is a 20% chance it could be wrong :roll: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gannet Posted June 23, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 23, 2009 you do know that there is a 20% chance it could be wrong :roll: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinytawnykitten Posted June 23, 2009 Report Share Posted June 23, 2009 Just had our 20 week scan, and we are having a BOY!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamH Posted June 23, 2009 Report Share Posted June 23, 2009 Don't some dwarf Cichlid's have more of one gender of fry if the water is alkaline/acidic or above a certain temperature? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gannet Posted June 23, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 23, 2009 its most definitely a boy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HaNs Posted June 23, 2009 Report Share Posted June 23, 2009 Could be a boygirl? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gannet Posted June 23, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 23, 2009 :lol: :lol: :lol: or a shim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamH Posted June 23, 2009 Report Share Posted June 23, 2009 Looks like an Ultra-Sound to me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caryl Posted June 23, 2009 Report Share Posted June 23, 2009 and what's this "we" bit? Who will be carrying it for 9 months then pushing it out? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon1990 Posted June 23, 2009 Report Share Posted June 23, 2009 and what's this "we" bit? Who will be carrying it for 9 months then pushing it out? Gannet will! :bounce: :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gannet Posted June 23, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 23, 2009 and what's this "we" bit? Who will be carrying it for 9 months then pushing it out? that would be my amazing other half... my better half. but at the end of the day i chose if it would be a boy or girl :roll: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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