Having A Boy Or Girl Is A 50/50 Chance Anyway
June 20, 2009 by Kathy Forcey
Filed under Pregnancy
Advances over the last quarter-century have led to great leaps in the matter of gender selection when it comes to planning for children. So, girl or boy: safely choosing sex of baby is now more possible than ever, and equally as safe. What then, are the things people should know about such gender selection and processes?
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.
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.
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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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