InteliGender ad

So, OhBaby is currently running an ad for a product that claims to be able to tell you the gender of your unborn child as early as the 8th week of pregnancy.

(Maybe it's been there for ages and I only just saw it)

I'm a bit surprised at this choice of advertiser......In fact I'm a bit surprised you can even buy this product here at all. I wondered what others thought.

There obviously must be a market out there for it if they can afford to advertise it so I guess like any other business out there - good luck to them!

Wouldn't be my choice to find out by this method or so early and it clearly has some relevance to this site - not sure I agree its a good move to advertise a product like that but I'm painfully aware of how hard advertising can be to sell at times.

Its not a product that's harming anyone (that I'm aware of) and I don't find it particularly offensive (though I completely understand why some would) so I guess my honest and personal opinion is that I'm not against the product or its advertisement here.

Will be interesting to see others' comments tho.

I completely get that the site needs adverts. That's a given. i don't expect access to such a great site for free and expect it to somehow function without advertisers.

Doesn't bother me. I'm not going to buy it (have better ways to spend that much money) but I don't mind it being advertised.

Like someone on the charting thread said, it's the Womama model in the header add that bothers me (not really at all... but who on earth waltzes round hanging up the washing in a bra? Do your shirt up, woman )

I think the woman looks like a man in drag....sorry if I've offended...

I'm actually surprised that more people aren't upset about the formula one instead.

doesnt bother me i just see it as a bit of fun like the ring test and chinese calendars just a bit expensive for me tho. Some scan places will tell you at your nuctual scan now anyway if they can tell and you want to know so whats the harm in a few weeks earlier?

I think there was a thread about the formula ad ages ago although i dont understand why there could be controversy over it?? Its toddler formula which is advertised all over tv anyway. Personally i think formula for toddlers is a waste of money but some parents like to feel they are giving their children everything they need to be healthy in those toddler years when lets face it only a handful of children are still being breastfed.

I would like to see advertising for Newborn Formula but i guess thats never going to happen since its so taboo and against what the authorities on these things think everyone should be doing.

the vid on the side of their website about the parents that found out they were having a boy. if you click on it, it takes you to youtube were you find out that they had a girl the test was wrong lol

Fair enough. I guess I just saw the ad and was a bit startled. I think the percentage of people that would use it for the reasons stated by Littlesal is probably (hopefully) minute, but they are out there. The thing with talking about 'our culture' is that we are a very multicultural society these days and there may be mothers out there that could find themselves under some very unpleasant pressure if it was thought so very early on that they were having a girl. It's probably easy as a forum member to look around and think "but none of us think like that" but there are probably far more non-members clicking through the site than members.

I did see the forum about the formula ads. Personally I think information about infant formula should be more readily available to mothers so that they can make informed choices, but I wouldn't like to see it advertised/pushed, purely because the days when formula was seen as being superior to breast are not that far behind us.

Thanks for everyone's comments

ETA: that is so true about the womama bra woman. A far more realistic representation may be seen at our house any day of the week - my DH is still teasing me after seeing me hanging our washing out clad in dressing gown and gum boots......

Edited by Gardengirl

Must have missed that thread Weegee