Will IVF Work for My Baby Gender Selection? by:Matt Murren
There are times when you may want to choose the sex of your baby
. You may want to do this for medical or personal (elective) reasons. The method of choice is yours and there are several options you can pursue when deciding whether to look at baby gender selection. Keep in mind that each option has its own effectiveness, prices vary, and not all methods are readily available. When you are considering adding a child to your family and you have medical or personal reasons for wanting the child to be male or female, then you have some options that make your chances greater of having your child of choice. Of course, there are no guarantees for you when conceiving a child and most people are happy knowing that their baby is alive and healthy. The choice is ultimately left up to each individual couple.
One method to look at when making your decision on baby gender selection is In Vitro Fertilization (IVF). Medical professionals have the ability to create and identify embryos of a specific sex and then implant them. This procedure was founded in 1978 and has become more common and successful since then. The percentage of becoming pregnant through IVF is now quite high and results in a viable pregnancy in 1 out of 5 implantations. Age and reproduction health of both the male and female partner are part of the overall physical evaluation when a physician is consulted for infertility reasons.
In Vitro Fertilization is no longer the extensive surgical procedure it used to be. It usually can be performed in a physicians office and requires no general anesthesia. The physician combines ultrasound imaging with a sonographically-guided needle to recover the oocytes (female eggs.) To prepare for In Vitro Fertilization, the woman must undergo approximately two weeks of hormonal therapy using fertility drugs so that the physician can retrieve the eggs at the most optimal time (immediately before ovulation.) The procedure itself requires only local anesthesia and the patient will only have mild discomfort such as experienced during an annual pap smear. Almost always, the patient will be able to go home that same day and resume her usual daily activities.
Following retrieval, the females eggs are taken to a lab and examined closely under a microscope. They are retained in the lab and medically evaluated by an Embryologist who has had extensive training in human fertility. When the eggs are ready to be fertilized, they are placed with the male sperm and hopefully develop into cleaving pre-embryos which divided two or three times. At this point, the Embryologist can evaluate the pre-embryos and determine if they have X (female) or Y (male) chromosomes. Baby gender selection is made and the X or Y pre-embryos are passed through the females vagina and into her uterus.
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