The Acu-Gen Acu-Gender test has been repackaged as the Baby Gender
Mentor (and the price has doubled). The test was featured
on NBC's Today Show. The segment included a
description of how the test works by detecting male DNA.
The segment repeated Acu-Gen's claims about the test's accuracy without
questioning their claims at all. . Katie, you let me down.
Telling millions of viewers that this test is darn near foolproof
without asking a single probing question about the results of clinical
studies, the outcome of kits sold so far, or how many customers have
requested refunds, is dropping the ball.
Holly Osborn of Connecticut bravely received her Baby Gender Mentor
test results on-air. She gamely managed a billiant smile on
hearing that her test result showed that she was expecting her third
daughter, and not the boy she and her husband hoped for. (Holly,
you're welcome to visit us over in the Gender Disappointment forum, if
you'd like to talk about it!)
To see the Today Show segment or buy Baby Gender Mentor, see:
About Maureen
Click to play the Fountains of Wayne song about Maureen!
"Maureen, you're givin' me too much information!"
My Kiddies
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(And never had a fight!)
About Me
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.