Trying To Choose The Sex Of Your Baby Carries Risk Of Disappointment

March 17, 2010 by  
Filed under Pregnancy

Great strides in medical reproductive science have been made over the last few decades. Indeed, it’s now possible to safely increase the odds of having either a boy or a girl, which is something that would have been unheard of just half a century ago. So, when choosing sex of baby, whether boy or girl, what should people who are contemplating such an option know about “gender selection,” as it’s called?

Gender selection is a way to increase the odds of having a boy or a girl once a series of techniques or strategies have been carried out before pregnancy occurs. There are a number of different methods which can increase the odds of desired gender occurrence, and they have success rates which vary, with some coming close to one-hundred percent.

Currently, a number of non-clinical commercially-available sex selection kits are on the market which claims to use natural supplements to do the same thing as what’s accomplished in clinical medicine-type processes. These over-the-counter kits state that they deliver a success rate running upwards of 96 percent. They all say they help to make changes in the prospective parents’ body chemistries to make sex selection a certainty.

Clinical-medical procedures center on several different procedures. A fairly popular technique – which is called MicroSort – sorts out male sperm that differs in the characteristics of its DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid) such that it’s possible to categorize those sperm which could lead to a male or a female child.

After the sperm has been sorted so that only those most likely to lead to a male or a female (by preference) are left, the next step in the process is to use either intrauterine insemination (IUI) or in vitro fertilization (IVF) to place the “enriched” sperm into the uterus of the female or to fertilize the ovum (egg) of the female. Success rate for girls approaches 92 percent and is lower, at 81 percent, for boys.

Always remember, though, that a successful pregnancy must first occur before anything else. In this regard, intrauterine insemination runs about sixteen percent for pregnancy and in vitro fertilization comes in at about thirty-two percent. These rates are usual, and are in line with most any other method for bringing about pregnancy.

It’s comforting to know, that there are a wide range of options for attempting gender selection for a couple or a hopeful-mother desiring a child of one sex or the other. The chances of such a happenstance occurring, indeed, are greater than ever before. Just make sure to investigate each procedure careful and put in some time on careful research before going through with such a process.

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