Experience with "Tell Me Pink or Blue", especially if you've already had a boy.

[Falling2Grace]

I am toying with the idea of taking the "Tell me pink or blue" blood test. I read it's pretty accurate, but the only thing is bc it scans for the Y Chromosome, if you have had a boy in the past it could pick up on an old Y chromosome and then give you a *possibly* false boy result. I was just wondering everyone's experience or thoughts on this test. My situation is this, I was MCed October 2009, got pregnant the following December with a boy. I gave birth Sept. 2010 to DS1. Then I got pregnant June 2011 with a boy. Gave birth Feb. 2012 to DS2. I got pregnant this past Decemeber (2012) and i am now 11 weeks pregnant, so obviously not sure what i am having. But as you can see i have some pretty close age gaps. DS1 and DS2 are 17 months apart and DS2 and this bump will be about 18 months apart. Im just wondering if it would be a waste of money? Im afraid it will pick a boy result bc thats what i have been pregnant with both times and pretty recently. Or do you think it would actually be accurate? thoughts?

[Wanting-a-girl]

How much does it cost? How long does it take to order do and get results?
These are questions I would ask myself
I'm just waiting till 16 or 17 weeks for an u/s

[Falling2Grace]

I already have the answer to that. Its on their site. Thats why i want to know if it would be accurate given my boy history. I dont want to pay tons of money for something that could be inaccurate bc i have two boys already. But this is my last pregnancy, so im willing to pay a little bit of money if its something that would actually be right. but if theres a good chance it would be wrong, i wouldn't want to drop the cash for it.

[Wanting-a-girl]

I just read something on ingender about 25 people being told boy and 15 had girl :s

[Wanting-a-girl]

A lot of people seem to have accurate results too from what I'm reading... Hope someone else has some insight for you

[Falling2Grace]

yeah, im reading IG now too...making me rethink getting it lol.

[Wanting-a-girl]

Ya cause I thnk you will just second guess the results no matter what after reading mixed reviews

[Falling2Grace]

^very true.

[Falling2Grace]

Just wanted to update, I've decided not to waste my money on this product.

[nuthinbutpink]

I would only trust a blood test. That materniT21 one works.

[Wanting-a-girl]

Can you request that or is it on,y certain women that can get it

[Falling2Grace]

It has been offered to me however it will be pretty close to when I find out the sex anyways so it may not matter (at least for that particular use)

[zibibbogirl]

Thank goodness you have decided against purchasing this product. I just saw this thread and was going to chime in and let you know that in my opinion, it would be a huge mistake.

I did HT and my clinic advised me that they transferred a female embryo. I didn't doubt it for a second but I wanted to do the test for a bit of fun. I thought it would be nice to hear the words "It is a girl" for the first time in my life. I didn't anticipate just how badly it could turn out, until I did this test and the results came back. The results came back boy!

Well, I panicked of course. I started wondering if the test was accurate and if it was, how this mix up could have happened. I could not get any gender confirmation at my 12 week ultrasound. So, I spent weeks in absolute limbo over Christmas and New Year. My clinic assured me the embryo they transferred was female with 99.9% accuracy and I knew in my heart I trusted the clinic more than the test. But there was always that lingering doubt. I read all the comments about inaccuracy on IG and on here and prayed like crazy the test was wrong for me. Then at 17 weeks my OB confirmed 100% girl, much to my relief. But to think, I could have been enjoying my DD pregnancy instead of going out of my mind with worry!

The lab has offered my money back when I send in a copy of my DD birth certificate. But the whole episode led me to wonder how many people actually bother going through that process eight months later to get their money back. This company profits from people who either forget or don't have time to chase their refund with a new baby.

Who knows if they eveb do a test. If they charge $300 for a test and give 90% of people boy results without even running the test, they are still going to be right at least 50% of the time. And when they aren't right, they can claim that the mother may have contimatinated the test with a Y chromosome by having a male present at the time. This means that they only would have to refund in 50% of cases and then only half of those (or maybe less) would even bother. If this company can suck 1000 people like me into doing the test they would make $250,000 for doing absolutely nothing at all.

[nuthinbutpink]

Works the same way urobiologics works! It doesn't!

[BunnyGirl19]

I think their website says it has to be 3 months separating pregnancies. I wanted to try it, but I can't because I'm on anticoagulants.

[tulip]

my sister took that & it was WRONG !!! SHe spent 4 months feeling happy to have got her DG only to get very disappointed at the 20wk scan. She cried for days after that.

[The Anchor]

I recently heard that there was a woman in Vancouver trying to sue them...I might google it later...

[Falling2Grace]

i have to admit, for as tempting as it was to consider this test, im glad i didn't waste my money...only 7 more days until gender scan!

i hate that all of these tests or even the OTC urine tests, really all they do is take advantage of women with dreams, i feel! they can be fun to do but they should be dirt cheap!

[Wanting-a-girl]

Can't wait to hear your update! I'm happy you didnt waste your money... Everything's about money these days people taking advantage of people :s it's terrible

[BunnyGirl19]

For whomever said MaterniT21 was more reliable, it was not for my son. They told me he was a girl. Imagine my devastation when I found out it wasn't the baby girl I wanted. I don't hold any faith in the accuracy of determining fetal gender from the mother's blood******. I'm far more willing to trust amnio or CVS since they are actually testing from the baby.