Sometimes you look for ways of making money and sometimes they find you.

Last month my better half gave me the good news that she was pregnant with our second child, yikes! It wasn’t long after I had heard of a test you can do online, is it a boy or a girl?

In the UK it is a sad fact that at the 20 week pregnancy scan they can no longer tell you the sex of your child as it leaves them open to being sued {sigh}. So they won’t say anymore unlike first time round when we had our son, some people prefer a surprise, I don’t, I prefer to plan ahead so when a company offers the ability to send away a blood sample and tell you to within 99% the sex of your child at 8 weeks into the pregnancy I find that appealing!

According to a recent pole of nearly 50,000 expectant parents on over 70% wanted to know the gender of their baby before birth.

I won’t go into what is involved as that has no real place here, I spoke to Al and gave him details so that he could mention it at CG on a post about DNA gender testing if it interests you.

I think it fits into those two categories that people find it very easy to spend money on,

• children
• pets

Don’t get me wrong, if it was available first time round with our son we couldn’t really have afforded it, but this time money is less of an issue so at £189.95 (~USD $380)  it’s still quite an expense, but so is being a parent so I may as well get in the practice again!

Great minds think alike
The test was done, results in and at around 12 weeks we told the family and I mentioned it to Al, I am paraphrasing greatly here but the conversation went generally along the lines off..

Me: Bit of news Al, Elaine is pregnant
Al: Congratulations!
Me: You can do a test now, tells you the sex of the child, its a girl! , cost a bit though.
Al: Nice one, you should check to see if they have an affiliate program
Me: I did, they do, I’ve signed up!

At almost $400 they do offer an affiliate program that offers 10% and a further 2% on second level referrals, so if you have a baby names website or the like perhaps it is worth considering, name meaning websites get HUGE traffic, perhaps approach baby name websites for advertising rates.

Also if you use Adwords it may be worth considering if you can buy the traffic cheap and convert it through the affiliate program, at 10% if you earn almost $40 per signup that gives you quite a bit of leverage for spending on your PPC.

If you want to signup feel free to consider doing it here (aff) to help me make my $400 back