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

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.

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.

Once the sperm has been categorized into those sperm cells which will lead to a male or a female, the next phase in the procedure uses either IUI (intrauterine insemination) or IVF (in vitro fertilization) to emplace fortified (or "enriched") sperm cells into the female's womb, for one. Or (in IVF), a ripe egg from the female is fertilized with the sperm and placed in the womb. There's a 92 percent success factor for girls and a lower rate of 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. - 33375

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