Linda Hurtado reveals the big secret! Wendy is pregnant with a girl!

TAMPA - If you're a mom-to-be who can’t wait to know, there's a new inexpensive test on the market that claims it can tell you the sex of your baby as early as 8 weeks- earlier than most sonograms at your doctor's office but does it work? I recruited some friends of mine to test it out.

You may recognize one of them. Wendy Ryan has been keeping a little secret -- she’s six month’s pregnant with her first child.

Most of you who watch Wendy anchor the news at 6 and 11 probably haven't seen this side of her: the bubbly, vivacious, fun - getting giddy over the idea of having a boy or girl.

Luckily, Wendy got to share this experience with friend and co-worker Jennifer McVan, our Special Projects producer who is five months pregnant.

At this point, neither had had an ultrasound to confirm the sex of their babies so I asked them to take the new Intelligender gender prediction test first.

For about 35 dollars, you can buy the test kit online or at any local pharmacy. The company claims the urine test provides immediate gender results as early as 8 weeks post conception, earlier than traditional sonograms and they claim an 80 to 90 percent accuracy rate.

Wendy agreed to take the test twice: once at work and once at home first thing in the morning.

The website says a green result means boy and an orange result means girl. When Wendy took the test at work here was her reaction: “That is so green! That is so green! That is so green!”

Linda Hurtado: “I'd be shocked if you took it again and it didn't come out green. And that is so orange.”

Jen McVan: “But your sonogram could say it’s a girl.”

Wendy: “It could.”

Jen McVan says her home test was inconclusive - neither green nor orange. But the orange result at work made her hold her breath in anticipation. “I'm like cautiously optimistic. I would love a little boy again but it would be nice to have one of each since we have a little boy."

A few weeks later they invited me to share in each of their exciting moments. Wendy, getting a sonogram in her OBGYN’s office says, “Most everything says I'm having a boy."

But when a trained sonographer there gave her opinion on gender, Tara the sonographer said, “It's a girl!"

Wendy: “Is it really. Is it really?"

The Intellligender may be wrong.

While Tara is 99.9 percent sure Wendy is having a girl, no one will know for sure until we meet Wendy's baby after birth.

What is Tara's opinion of online gender tests? “I've proven them wrong many times. I don't think you can determine the gender of the baby through urine."

What about Jen? Was her Intelligender test right?

"It’s a girl."

Even though she won't admit it, I know Jen and she really wanted a baby girl.

We also asked the head of USF Health media relations Suzanna Martinez Tarokh to test out the Intelligender, just to have one more test under the belt, so to speak.

Her home test turned orange signaling a girl.

And her ultrasound technician agreed. Suzanna says, “Well, we can't forget what this is really all about and that is making sure everything else with the baby is all right but man that was exciting."

So our unscientific testing showed two out of three matched the ultrasound. The boy result being the one that differed.

A spokesperson with Intelligender told me they do have more false results that read boy then girl and that their test is just a fun pre-birth experience.

So don’t skip the ultrasound and don't paint the room pink or blue based solely on this test. Congratulations to Wendy.