Thursday, May 6, 2010

Does Natural Gender Selection method work?

Many couples wish to perform gender selection of their unborn child. However, instead of going to infertility clinics for scientific methods, they opt for traditional and supposedly natural methods. These so-called natural methods meant to select the gender of the unborn baby are not scientifically proven and are found to err.

There are many reasons why a couple may resort to gender selection. One reason may be that they have all offspring of one gender and they want to balance their family with both male and female children. Another more common reason is that either of the spouse may be the carrier of a genetic disorder, which may be more likely to manifest in one gender than the other. The couple does not want their offspring to be a carrier of or sufferer of that genetic disorder hence they want to avoid the gender which is more likely to have that disorder. Whatever be the reason, the only reliable means of identifying the gender of the fetus is the scientific method performed at infertility clinics that subscribe to modern methodologies.

1 comment:

Andrew Y. Silverman, MD, PhD said...

Do you mean by "natural gender selection" other than IVF/PGD which involves the hormones associated with the IVF process. For if you do, I have been performing "natural gender selection" for over 20 years using the Ericsson Method. It has a 70% success rate for a boy or a girl. I've published the results in "Human Reproduction" and you can have the paper emailed to you from my web site "www.gender-select.com.

Andrew Y. Silverman, M.D., Ph.D.