Gender Selection News

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	April said: I was alerted to this article by my coworkers, and was very suprised to learn that the test has only been on the market since June! I had the test done in August, about 13 weeks into my pregnancy, and it said I was definately having a girl. I was so excited! I had the name picked out, made a website, and started buying clothes for my little girl. At my ultrasound a couple weeks ago, I was shattered to find out its a boy, most definately a boy! I checked the baby gender mentor website, and I will get a 200% refund once I have the birth certificate, but I'm very skeptical now. The article in today's Globe said 4000 people have used the test since June, and only 4 refunds have been given. But I can't help but wonder how many babies could have been born, if the test just came out a few months ago? I chat on an online board with other pregnant women, and there are definately more than a dozen other women in my situation, just on one board alone, just waiting to get a birth certificate. I would be interested to know if any lawsuits come up in the meantime.... April Boston, MA October 17, 2005 8:47 AM
	Maureen said: Hi April, If you haven't aleady, please click on "Forums" at the top and see some posts from other women who have had ultrasounds that do not agree with their results, I hope it will make your feel better to talk with some other women who are going through the same thing. October 17, 2005 9:31 AM
	Adrienne said: So what they are basically saying is that because I know there was never a "vanishing twin" then there is probably something genetically abnormal with my child because 4 ultrasounds conclude that acu gen was wrong! Thanks to them for making us pregnant women even more worried than we already are about the health of our unborn babies! October 17, 2005 12:16 PM
	Momof4girls said: I beg to differ with this statement by Dr.Wang "But it has given only four refunds so far out of a total of more than 4,000 tests done since this summer, said its scientific director, Dr. C. N. Wang. That is precisely the number of false results one would expect with a 99.9 percent accuracy rate" Here is my issue, have all 4000 of these women delivered? If not than that means the stats are not 99.9% We would need to know the number that have delivered. I am no math whiz, but correct me if I am wrong. For example, if only 25 women have birthed, than that means it is only 84% accurate right? So basically we WERE his test market. October 17, 2005 7:15 PM
	Gender Selection News said: No, you're not accidently reading "The Onion" by mistake, this really happened. Baby Gender Mentor... January 13, 2006 6:38 PM
	Gender Selection News said: No, you're not accidently reading "The Onion" by mistake, this really happened. Baby Gender Mentor... February 17, 2006 10:29 PM

About Maureen

In 1999, my two sons were 4 and 2 years old, and we were ready to have another baby. I hoped to have a daughter, and I turned to the Internet to search for ways of increasing the odds of conceiving a girl. I discovered the iVillage Gender Determination Board. On the board, I found information about at-home and high-tech sex selection methods, but more importantly, I discovered I wasn't alone. I was one among a legion of mothers who longed desperately for a daughter, keeping it a secret so others wouldn't think, wrongly, that we loved our sons less, and feeling guilty becuse we're not supposed to care if a baby's a boy or a girl, "as long as it's healthy". There were, of course, also mothers hoping just as much to add a son to their all-girl family.

After a lot of research and soul-searching, my husband I decided to try MicroSort. In the fall of 2000, I became pregnant on our first MicroSort attempt, by IUI. At 20 weeks of pregnancy, we discovered we were having twins, a boy and a girl! We were thrilled to have a daughter at last, and a new son to cherish too.

During my journey to conceive a daughter, I was so grateful for the support and information volunteered by others on the boards; mothers who didn't even know me, but were willing to help me, hope for me, and cry along with me, when there was no one I could turn to "in real life". I know that without being able to talk personally with women who had tried MicroSort, I would have never gone through with this daunting, complex procedure; and that we would have never had a daughter as part of our family.

Now that my journey's finished, this Web site is just my way of giving some of that help back, to you.