Ok, I had the Maternity 21 test on Friday, obviously I am much more concerned with is baby healthy but we did elect to find out the sex since we were doing the test anyway. My question is this, If you did have the test or another similar one and found out the sex, did you wait for the sonogram to confirm or feel pretty confident with what the test said? Has anyone had an experience where the test was wrong? I understand that they look for fetal DNA fragments in the mother's blood so they'd be seeing pieces of the baby's DNA, but I keep thinking well what if they only see the X chromosome but there's a Y one they didn't find when they did the test? So could you get a false-negative scenario? I don't care either way which our baby is and neither does my hubby, but we're both dying to know!
Re: Finding out the sex and Maternity 21 test
AMA & SAIF. TTC #1 since Oct. 2010. DX: Unexplained. BFP on break after 32 months trying and 2 med cycles. Baby girl born at 40w0d!
jbelle
Melissa
Thanks everyone for all the great answers! I'm thinking I'll cautiously go with what the test says but keep the info to ourselves until it's confirmed.
I was told that if insurance didn't cover the testing, the state of CA would cover all but $200 (I think) of the cost in order to help make the testing accessible as the medical community is starting to be of the opinion that this test will replace more invasive testing in the future.