Procedures Demonstrating How You Can Select The Sex Of Your Baby -- Medical Proof Or Just A Con?

When I initially set up my website choose-sex-of-baby.com there were only very few other websites devoted to information about how to choose the sex of baby. However, during the very recent past, sites and blogs offering help with choosing the gender of your baby have mushroomed all over the online world, with many of them selling kits and plans for gender selection.

Are baby gender selection a scam? Is there any medical basis to them?

The only assured method of baby gender selection now available is based on pre-implantation diagnosis. In simple terms, sperm and eggs are fertilized in a lab dish, and some days later, tiny bits from embryos are taken and tested to find out the sex of each. Then, an embryo with the gender you want to have, is taken and placed in the mother's womb to allow it to grow into a baby.

Another "medical" method although with no such guarantee which the first method offers, involves separating of the sperm which results in a male or a female child, and then using these sperm to fertilise the egg. Two techniques are commonly used. In one technique, male reproductive fluid in a container is made to spin at high speeds, and this is believed to aggregate the "male" and "female" sperm individually because of their different sizes. Depending on the gender of the baby you desire, sperm from the top or bottom of the aggregate is used for fertilization. The next method tries to identify "male" and "female" sperm based on their sizes, using a dye which sticks to the sperm.

In both these cases you cannot conceive naturally through sex. You might have to try more than once for a successful pregnancy. Of course, these procedures don't come cheap.

Methods depending on timing of conception. The most popular of these are based on the Shettles' method. If we consider the postings on community forums, we find that lot of couples have used this process successfully, while a few have not.

There are websites which sell methods to choose the sex of your baby based almost solely on the idea of altering the Ph of your reproductive tract. The concept is that the acidic-alkaline environment in the woman's vagina can help or prevent the chances of conceiving a baby boy or a baby girl by making it simpler or difficult for male or female sperm to survive and fertilise the egg.

Gender Selection Software. We now have websites (including my own) offering to give you a prediction of the probability of your conceiving a boy or a female child, for each day of any year.

When the birth dates of the father and the mother are entered into the software, it generates the likelihood of conceiving a boy or a girl for any given period. The advantage claimed for implementing software-generated dates is that one can avoid the bother of tracking your body temperature or secretions for one to three months.

Another advantage is that the software gives us durations of two weeks to two months during which we can conceive to have the baby of our choice, unlike other gender selection plans that provide you with a couple of dates within which you have to conceive, or you've missed it.

In conclusion, I would state this: if you are dead serious about selecting the sex of your baby, have the money (around 50,000 dollars) to lose, and are also willing to put up with the inconvenience and the risk of failing a few times, you might opt for the latest medical procedure.

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