In the beginning of April I decided to take a home gender test, called IntelliGender. According to the information in the package it is 84% accurate. So, I followed the directions and waited anxiously to see my results. I was shocked to see that my pee (mixed with the powdery mixture inside) turned a dark muddy green. Apparently I was having a baby boy. So, I quickly took a picture of the test with my camera phone and sent it to my husband. He was of course ecstatic. Of course I was overjoyed too, but seriously surprised because we both thought we were having a girl. Honestly I was hoping for a girl... but as long as I had a healthy baby nothing else truly mattered. I was just happy to finally have an answer to the torturous gender question; especially as early as 15 weeks.
We knew there was a pretty big chance that Intelligender was inaccurate, but neither of us could hold in our enthusiasm. So, we told our friends and family. We explained about the test and that it wasn't 100%. We even decided on a boy name... Braeden Matthew.
Other boy name contenders were: Caleb & Collin.
We went on for weeks calling our baby Braeden... even though in our minds we knew fully well that the test could very well be wrong. After weeks of reading different mother's reviews on the test it seemed like it was a total hit or miss. I mean, it is a 50/50 shot either way, right? Some people had taken the test multiple times and gotten different answers... it was correct for some people and wrong for others. So, we were still anxiously awaiting our next ultrasound to reveal the true answer.
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