Having A Boy Or Girl Is A 50/50 Chance Anyway

By Kathy Forcey

Choosing sex of baby with certainty has become more possible during the last twenty-five or so years. This is mainly due to the steady progress made in the field of gender or sex selection, and the work done to make it possible for a couple or a prospective mother to have either a boy or a girl by preference. What should people who are thinking about baby gender selection know, then?

For starters, gender - or sex - selection attempts to predetermine the sex of a child prior to even trying to conceive. All of this work is done before the mother becomes pregnant, and there are a number of methods for doing so. Each of these methods has varying degrees of success, but odds in some cases can approach nearly 100 percent.

On the market are a number of non-medical or clinical over the counter sex selection kits which promise to help proper gender occur. Most use different natural substances to bring about changes in the body chemistry of the prospective mother and father, which is thought to make the odds of having a boy or girl - depending upon body chemistry type - much higher. This approaches 96 percent, in many cases.

Actual clinical processes revolve around a variety of techniques. One, called "MicroSort," delineates male sperm in such a way as to examine the DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid) for small differences that are present and which are believed to lead to either a male or female child.

After sorting of the sperm cells so that only male-favoring or female-favoring spermatozoa are present, MicroSort then uses either intrauterine insemination (IUI) or in vitro fertilization (IVF) to place these strengthened and enriched sperm cells into the prospective mother's womb (in IUI) or to fertilize a ripe ovum (IVF) and then place it into the womb. It's a bit more complicated than this, but these are the general principles. Success is 92 percent for girls and 81 percent for boys.

The MicroSort success rate first presupposes a successful pregnancy, though the rate of pregnancy using IUI is at nearly 16 percent and IVF at 32 percent. These pregnancy rates are typical, and in line with just about any other method of insemination with the aim of successful pregnancy. So, once pregnancy has been brought about, the chances of having either a boy or a girl, by preference, is very good.

There are several successful methods for safely choosing sex of "baby," and a couple or a woman desiring to not only have a child but also have a child of a certain gender are better than ever. As always, such a process should be undertaken with sufficient care and after a great deal of research as to benefits and drawbacks.

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