Baby Gender Selection – When the ‘percentage’ Really Counts!
Although certain society’s look down at picking the gender of your baby. For some people it’s a dream come true. There can be many reasons why obtaining a baby of a certain sex is desired by some couples or individuals. From genetic illness and disease to just a simple case of wanting to raise a baby of a particular gender.
When researching baby sex selection, you will learn that very little is guaranteed 100%. Which can leave you in a difficult situation. Should you risk thousands of pounds (or dollars) to conceive a little boy that you really want and have an approximately 25% error margin! Or perhaps a little girl, with a 10% error margin.
Most medical gender selection processes aren’t exactly cheap. So when charging this much money, you would think they could get this process right!
Microsort is an extension to IVF, but instead of just implanting any embryo back into your uterus, it is hopefully (fingers crossed) an embryo which is the gender of your choice. The x and the y bearing sperm are sorted before being mixed with the egg in IVF, ICSI or before being used in artificial insemination.
So let’s look at some figures, Microsort technology gives you an approximate (this may be slightly different either way) 90% chance of selecting a girl, or a lower approximate rate of 75% for a boy. In other words, if you want a girl, there is still a 1 in 10 chance of having a boy. IF you want a boy, then there is a 1 in 4 chance of you having a girl!
The chances of the IVF procedure itself working is only around 35%, IUI (artificial insemination pregnancy rate is only around 15%
Let’s look at another method, PGD (Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis) This is the by far the most expensive method of gender selection. Costing more than IVF and ICSI It very nearly hits the 100% guarantee for giving you the baby of your preferred gender. The expense alone leaves many people out in the cold light of day.
The Ericsson method is more affordable, and the process only takes around 4 hours. The father would provide a sperm sample at an Ericsson clinic, after the sperm sample has been sorted, the mother would be inseminated. The whole process is carried out on the day that the mother is believed to be ovulating on. So onto success rates – Around 78%-85% for boys, and 73%-75% for girls. Rather a large error margin for both sexes.
With any of the above methods, wouldn’t you be just totally devastated, if after paying that sort of money you were left with a baby of the wrong gender, or even worse, no baby at all!
There is another way to conceive a baby of your preferred gender. After all if you would be willing to try these above methods, but just haven’t budgeted to that amount. Then I know of a way that has an approximate 94% success rate… and to top it all off, it’s hundreds of dollars cheaper than those above!
If you want to see more, then you can visit me, Julie at: http://www.new-baby-and-beyond.com/natural-gender-selection.html
To see some natural methods of gender selection, before you chance the hit and miss medical methods!
Gender Selection Methods: An Overview
In ancient Greece, men used to have sex lying on their right side in hopes of conceiving a son.In medieval France, men would tie off their left testicle in order to produce a baby boy only.Sounds strange and unusual? Maybe, but the desire to choose gender of their baby is still strong among today’s parents-to-be. They just don’t want to rely on the same primitive (an ineffective) methods.Today, there are cutting edge technologies available which can literally allow parents to choose the gender of their baby.Sadly, one of those methods is – selective abortion. Mother can find out the gender of her baby using amniocentesis, and then decide to have an abortion if the sex of the baby turns out not to be what she have hoped to be.This gender selection method is most prevalent in those countries where, historically and culturally, boys were preferred.Fortunately, there are other options for parents eager to choose gender of their baby. None of them free of ethical considerations, though!In mid 1970’s, geneticist Ronald Ericsson, PhD, developed the gender selection method that remains known as Ericsson method.This method sorts between male and female producing sperm and involves artificial insemination. Comparing to other gender selection methods, Ericsson method is not very expensive and invasive – however it possesses lower success rates.The cost is about 2 000 USD per circle. About three times out of ten, this gender selection method fails.Used since 1989, preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) method of gender selection involves in vitro fertilization (IVF).Doctors analyze the cells from embryos to determine its sex and consequently, only the embryo of desired gender is returned to woman’s uterus.The cost is nearly 20 000 USD, but it is 100 % accurate.PGD carries high chances of multiples.The newest and most talked about gender selection method is a variation on Ericsson’s method and is best known as Microsort.The statistics show that 86 % of parents who used this methods to conceive, did so for sex selection.The cost is about 15 000 USD, and success rate is about 90 % for conceiving girls, but only 74 % for conceiving boys.Microsort method is not yet approved by the Food and Drug Administration.Let just add that, while in United States gender selection is currently allowed for both genetic and preferential reasons, many other countries opted to regulate the whole matter much more restrictively.
