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Chances for medical gender selection working
You want a baby of a particular gender hard enough to undergo extensive and sometimes invasive medical procedures, and you're prepared to shell out a good amount of money in the process?
There are many medical gender selection methods you can try in a number of fertility clinics in the States and in some countries abroad.
Yes, it's great how today you can put yourself in the hands of doctors who specialize in gender selection, but are you familiar with their actual success percentages? How accurate are medical gender selection methods?
Let's start with an increasingly popular medical gender selection method - Microsort. If you're not familiar with Microsort, it is a brand name form a sperm sorting method. It involves IVF procedure. You can read more about Microsort gender selection here.
Anyway, here are the numbers for Microsort gender selection.
If you're trying for a girl using Microsort methods, the success rate is about 90%. In 1 case out of 10, you'll get a boy baby.
If you're trying for a boy using Microsort methods, your chances are lower. The success rate for boys is about 75%. In 1 case out of 4, you'll get a girl baby.
Remember that Microsort involves IVF. Chances of IVF procedure working are only around 35%. Artificial insemination pregnancy success rate is only around 15%.
Ericsson method is also a sperm sorting method of gender selection. It involves artificial insemination too. You can read more about Ericsson gender selection method here.
Chances of Ericsson method working? About 78%-85% if you're trying for a baby boy, or about 73%-75% if you're trying for a baby girl.
Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis is very accurate and very, very costly.
And, I mean accurate: they can guarantee the selection of desired sex of baby 99%. That will cost you about 20 000 dollars.
Of course, there are other ways rather than medical to help you pick the preferred sex of your baby, be it a boy or a girl.
