The Illinois state attorney general has opened an investigation into
sales of the Baby Gender Mentor prenatal DNA gender test by
PregnancyStore.com.
Our office will be trying to gather information
about the role of the company in the sale of the product and also
whether or not there have been any consumer fraud laws broken.
Illinois attorney general spokesperson on NPR
One Florida couple were told by Acu-Gen to expect a boy, but learned
by amniocentesis that their baby is a girl. The father-to-be was upset
when the result was explained as a "vanishing twin" -- even though a
previous ultrasound had ruled out twins -- and said it was like being
told "you had a baby conceived and it died... I thought that that was
very distressing for them to present it in that way".
NPR reporter Nell Boyce also reveals that complaints about the test have been filed with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
About Maureen
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"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.