Why Gender Prediction Kits?
setTopicVideo(); –> Just wanting to know is one reason for a gender prediction kit, but some reasons for wanting to know the sex of your baby are more serious. “There are reasons, both psychological and medical, to want to know the gender of the fetus,” says reproductive endocrinologist Dr. Mary Hinckley of the Reproductive Science Center of the San Francisco Bay Area. One reason is it may help predict the incidence of gender-linked disease. “There are certain diseases that are only passed from the mom to a son,” says Dr. Hinckley. “There are also certain diseases that are more likely in a specific gender. Often, I see patients who may have a son with autism, who worry that if they have another son, it may increase the risk of autism. Or I see a family where many women get breast cancer, and they hope for a son to lessen the chance he may be affected.” Although the fetus already is the gender it is, the knowledge may help parents be better prepared for the future, adds Dr. Hinckley.
