Gender selection for family balancing is a hot topic - and a hot button issue for some - but I presume you would not be reading How to conceive a boy blog if you're not at least open to this idea.
You want to conceive a boy.
If you already have baby girls whom you love dearly, but feel as something is missing... an experience of having a baby boy to make your parenting experience complete...?
Or some other reason, it doesn't matter...
Gender selection could well be an answer for your family balancing needs.
What is exactly family balancing, and what it takes to select gender if a fertility clinic?
Simply put, family balancing is the choosing of the gender of a future child on the basis of how many children of each gender a family already has.
Married couples that have at least one child are allowed to use different methods of gender selection in order to conceive a baby of the less represented gender in the family.
It can be hard to find a fertility clinic willing to help you select gender just for the sake of family balancing.
Luckily, Genetics & IVF Institute (GIVF) does gender selection for family balancing. In the following video, Dr Stern talks about how they use technologies like MicroSort sperm separation and PGD for gender selection.
The Microsort program was developed from technologies of over 25 years ago, but the scientists at GIVF have brought this forward and adapted it for use in human IVF. Find out more about these scientific baby gender selection methods and the cost associated with medical gender selection methods if you'd choose to conceive a baby boy in a fertility clinic.
I would like to finish with these quotes on gender selection and family balancing from the most relevant sources:
"Preconceptional sex selection can be justified on social grounds in certain cases for the objective of allowing children of the two sexes to enjoy the love and care of parents."International Federation of Gynecologists and Obstetricians Committee for the Ethical Aspects of Human Reproduction and Women's Health, 1994
"Parents have traditionally had great discretion in their procreative decisions and sex selection might provide perceived individual and social goods such as gender balance or distribution in a family with more than one child, parental companionship with a child of one's own gender, and a preferred gender order among one's children."
"The most prudent approach at present for the non-medical use of these techniques would be to use them only for gender variety in a family, i.e., only to have a child of the gender opposite of an existing child or children. If the social, psychological, and demographic effects of those uses of preconception gender selection have been found acceptable, then other non-medical uses of preconception selection might be considered."The American Society for Reproductive Medicine Ethics Committee Fertility and Sterility report, 2001
The choice, as always, is yours.
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