Gender Selection News : Gender Selection Methods

ART acronyms in a nutshell

Maureen — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 19:40:00 GMT

Confused about ART (that's Advanced Reproductive Technology) acronyms? Here's a handy chart to straighten out the difference between IUI, IVF, ICSI, GIFT, ZIFT, TET, PGD, and AEIOU.

ART Procedures: All the Acronyms in a Nutshell
by Maureen

Boy or girl: Can you choose?

Maureen — Tue, 02 Aug 2005 21:21:00 GMT

This American Baby magazine feature article is "a roundup of what you can try at home -- and what's involved in going the high tech route". The article includes a few quotes from me (Maureen) and a mention of this Web site.

Boy or girl: Can you choose?
American Baby Magazine

Can Sex Positions Determine Your Baby's Gender?

Maureen — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 11:32:00 GMT

Can Sex Positions Determine Your Baby's Gender?
American Baby Magazine (published Dec-2004)

Think that making love standing up will give you a boy? Think again.

American Baby: Gender Selection: Three Moms' Stories

Maureen — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 11:21:00 GMT

Gender Selection: Three Moms' Stories
American Baby Magazine

A short excerpt from a fairly lengthy article in last month's American Baby magazine, summarizing the gender selection experiences of three mothers who tried Shettles, MicroSort, and PGD. The third mother profiled, Jennifer Merrill Thompson, wrote a book about her experience and her research into gender selection methods called Chasing the Gender Dream. (I recommend the book!)

The original article included a couple of quotes from yours truly, but I guess I didn't make the Web cut. [:P]

Gender selection book author Jennifer Merrill Thompson to appear on The Today Show

Maureen — Mon, 11 Jul 2005 11:36:00 GMT

Jennifer is a MicroSort mother and the author of Chasing the Gender Dream. She has been interviewed for The Today Show (wow!) but as yet the air date is not known.

RipOffReport bashes baby gender selection Web sites

Maureen — Sat, 26 Feb 2005 02:36:00 GMT

RipOff Report on Baby Gender Selection

The Rip-Off Report accuses a bevy of Web sites selling baby gender selection of being "fraudulent" and giving "false promises". Rip-Off Report is listed by Alexa as the top Web site for consumer complaints, and has over half a million visitors per month, according to Metrics Market.

GenSelect Gender Selection Kit: "Patented" doesn't equal "effective"

Maureen — Mon, 17 May 2004 01:46:00 GMT

GenSelect: "Patented" doesn't equal "effective"

"We were just granted our United States patent, and they don't grant patents to wives' tales."
-- GenSelect co-founder Jill Sweazy, to CBS News

Phosita, a blog about patents and intellectual property law, examines the GenSelect patent, and explains that "it is a common misconception that patents are only issued to inventions that actually work... in order to be patentable, a disclosed invention only has to be novel (never done before), nonobvious, and useful."

GenSelect's US Patents:

Nutriceuticals to "improve the natural fertility process"
Kit and method for "increasing the chances of conceiving a child having a desired gender"

This 1989 paper referenced in both patents concludes that "the influence of coital timing on the sex ratio is... not a practical method to alter the sex ratio", yet contrarily the GenSelect Web site insists that timing intercourse and ovulation is "very important in the pre-conception gender selection process".