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!
Blue for a Boy, Pink for a Girl – Gender Selection Made Easy!
If someone told you that getting pregnant is easy – Would you believe them?
If somebody told you that the process of gender selection was easy, what would you say?
Do you want to conceive a boy, or do you want to conceive a girl?
OK enough questions! If you are reading this article then it’s more than likely because the topic of gender selection has cropped up in your day to day life. I know plenty of people with all boys, or all girls. And I also know a good half of them would have more children if only they be guaranteed the sex of their choice.
There is of course medical ways of baby sex selection. Microsort is the most common method, similar to IVF only the sperm gets sorted first. Now wouldn’t you think that with all of the technical equipment that our consultants and medical staff have now days, that if you paid your money – You would get what you paid for?… Not necessarily!
It can’t be guaranteed, and that’s if you get pregnant at all. Everyone thinks of IVF and assumes that there will be a baby at the end. Not always true, The pregnancy rate for IVF is only around 35%! Now if you are one of those lucky 35 out of 100 women, the chances of you having the gender of your choice are along these lines – To conceive a girl, 90%. To conceive a boy, 80%.
So on the whole process we’re not really talking good odds.
To be fair there is a process out there, that still uses IVF, but very nearly 100% guarantees you the child of your choice. You will pay through your high teeth for this method. PGD (Pre implantation Genetic Diagnosis) determines the gender of the embryo before it is placed into your uterus. Onto The Easy Bit
One more question – What if you were to find out, that there is a way to get pregnant with a child of the gender of your choice. Not only does this method give you a child of your dreams, it will prepare your body for pregnancy. How?…
In 3 simple steps!
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.
Baby Gender Selection – When It’s All About Choice
Baby gender selection is a method of selecting the sex of your yet to be conceived baby. To have a preferred choice on the sex of your baby can sometimes halt the whole process of trying to get pregnant. What if you want a girl, but get a boy or vice versa?
When you have an image in your mind, a little girl dressed in the palest pink, or a bouncing baby boy wearing that gorgeous sailor suit that you bought. Along with this thought is the vision of the dollar sign. After all, you can’t get baby gender selection for free.
Whichever process you have thought of pursuing, it is of course going to cost money. Your hard earned cash. And will it guarantee you that beautiful baby boy, or that pretty little girl. No – It won’t. Will it guarantee you a pregnancy? Sorry, but that’s a ‘No’ yet again. Most medical methods of baby sex selection rely on IVF to complete the process. IVF has only a 30-35% chance of ending in pregnancy.
The main problem is that only ‘one’ method of baby gender selection comes anywhere near to the 100% guarantee that you should rightfully expect. PGD – Pre-implantation genetic diagnosis is a process where the embryo is screened before being placed into your uterus. Normally this process is only allowed for medical reasons, but some clinics are carrying out this method as a way of gender selection. These clinics are making a fortune as PGD is the most expensive form of baby gender selection.
In some countries PGD is banned, but if it is available in your country, then how much are you willing to pay? OK, so you have an extremely good chance of getting the gender that you want. But what about actual pregnancy statistics of PGD? Yet again they’re not that good – because PGD relies on IVF for implanting an embryo into your uterus, so unfortunately you are back to that 30-35% chance of becoming a Mom!
Are there other ways of achieving baby gender selection?
In this day and age, there are alternative methods for just about every problem imaginable. Natural methods for curing a headache, natural ways to reduce labor pain when giving birth. So it’s not surprising that are natural ways to conceive a boy – or conceive a girl!
Natural gender selection methods include charting ovulation, altering your diet slightly, using the correct positions during intercourse, and actually preparing your body for pregnancy!
From the Shettles method, to the Jonas method there are lots of ways to conceive the baby with your choice of gender. What’s more they don’t cost a fortune, and the success rates are 80% plus. The extra good news is that you’re not going through invasive medical procedures and emptying your bank balance at the same time.
Gender Selection Of Embryos
Gender Selection Of Embryos is a process also known as Embryonic Gender Selection. It is one of the primary form of sex selection. If you are planning on pre-conception gender selection, this is one procedure you would be given to consider.
The process of gender selection of embryos involves virto fertilization of several eggs. Once the eggs are fertilized and embryos formed, a single cell will be remove for PGD (preimplantation genetic diagnosis). After which, the gender of each embryo is determined, and the unhealthy embryos identified, the chosen embryo will then be transferred and implanted in the mother.
The success rate of embryonic gender selection is extremely high. Closing to 100%. Unfortunately, not many gender selection specialist are willing to perform such a procedure. But not to let your hopes down, there are still a handful of fertility centers that will treat couples seeking both elective and medical gender selection.
