Choosing your babys Sex

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Choosing your babys Sex

• By Christy Hutson

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Can we choose the sex of our child?

• Yes, choosing the sex of your baby is technically
  possible by advances in fertility treatments that
  allow doctors to create or identify embryos of a
  certain sex.
• But, sex selection methods are usually the most
  expensive (tens of thousands of dollars)
  involving infertility treatments and fertility
  drugs that involve painful side effects
• You also have to meet strict eligibility
  requirements.

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Requirements for Treatment

• Married
• Have 1 child already the opposite sex of what you
  desire now
• Under the age of 45
• Not approaching menopause
• Have good health
• Not taking prescription drugs for depression

• You are not eligible unless you meet the
  following requirements set by fertility doctors

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Sex-Selection Methods

• Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD)
• MicroSort
• Ericsson
• Shettles Method
• Whelan Method
• Sex-selection Kits

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Baby, Baby, Baby

• One of the methods that have worked best for more
  than 80 of couples and is not outrageously ex-
  pensive for those couples who are trying is the
  Shettles method. The method is all about timing.
  The timing of intercourse plays an important role
  in achieving the desired gender.

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How to get a Shettles girl

• Trying for a girl is harder and takes time.
• May take several months to conceive a girl.
• Couples need to stop having sex about 2 days
  before ovulation, reason being so more X than Y
  sperm meet the egg.
• The couple should have intercourse frequently,
  right after her menstrual period ends.

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How to get a Shettles Boy

• Holding off on intercourse until 4 days before
  ovu- lation will boost a mans sperm count and
  produce more Y sperm than X sperm.
• During the 12 hour ovu- lation period, the
  partners should have sex just once.
• National Center for Health Statistics say that
  1,050 boys are born for every 1,000 girls.

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Trying Again

• Another method called In Vitro Fertilization
  (IVF) Artificial Insemination (AI) is where you
  are given stimulating drugs to try and get your
  ovaries to produce several eggs for conception.
  The doctor removes your eggs with a needle,
  putting them in a Petri dish where they will be
  fertilized with your partners sperm. Two to five
  days later your doctor implants them back into
  the uterus. Depending on your age, determines how
  many eggs get implanted back into the uterus.
  After that it is a waiting process to see if the
  eggs implanted will reproduce.

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Pros and Cons to (IVF)

• Some problems that may come to your attention
  with the procedure, is that its very costly! The
  average cost of an (IVF) cycle is 12,400. The
  removal of the eggs can be very painful as well.
  Your more likely to have multiple births with a
  chance of having twins. Fertility clinics do not
  automatically allow the procedure for sex
  selection only, but in doing, they boost up the
  cost.
• The upside of the procedure, is afterward the
  remaining embryos are frozen in case if the
  couple wants more children or they miscarried.
  The procedure is cheaper and less invasive.

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Sites Used

• http//www.babycenter.com/refcap/preconception/get
  tingpregnant/2915.html
• http//preconception.com/resources/articles/choose
  p1.htm
• http//www.sexselection.net/pages/626742/index.htm
  
• http//preconception.com/resources/articles/highte
  chgs.htm

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