Boy, girl, left, right, salty, sweet, who can tell?
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Can a pregnant woman really find out the gender of her child by urinating in a cup?
No matter whether this is true or not, curious parents in China, where prenatal gender tests are strictly forbidden, are eagerly falling on the new drug "IntelliGender."
Made in the US, IntelliGender claims to be able to discover whether an expectant mother is having a boy or girl as early as 10 weeks into the pregnancy. It's as easy as using a pregnancy test; after you use the strip, green means a boy, and orange a girl.
Many US mothers-to-be tried the test and got results, that were later contradicted by ultrasounds. Some obstetricians are none too pleased, saying that the test is about as accurate as a coin toss or random guess. Even the company's co-founder Rebecca Griffin admitted it "isn't so accurate that anyone should make a decision based on it."
But the drug, whose efficiency is highly dubious so far, has enchanted many Chinese parents who are eager to find out their babies' sex. While such requests show that the traditional preference for boys over girls still exist for some Chinese parents, others simply just want to know their baby's gender for fun or, as they claim, to "get mentally prepared."
There have been more than 1,200 posts to the drug's Chinese sales site, many of whom have already tried the drug and still more who want to follow suit.
"IntelliGender" is just the latest foreign drug to test the huge Chinese gender-identification market. Well before this, countless popular techniques already existed.
Due to the country's gender imbalance, Chinese laws rule out gender-testing for non-medical purposes, but the desire to find out a baby's sex has generated an astonishing variety of techniques.
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