When I first set up my site choose-sex-of-baby.com there were only very few other sites devoted to information regarding how to choose the sex of baby. But, during the very recent past, websites and blogs promising help with selecting the gender of your baby have mushroomed all over cyberspace, with many of them marketing kits and plans for gender selection.

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

The only guaranteed method of baby gender selection available these days is based on pre-implantation diagnosis. In simple terms, sperm and eggs are fertilized in a lab dish, and a few days after, small bits from embryos are taken and tested to know the sex of each. Next, an embryo with the gender you want to have, is taken and put into the mother's womb to allow it to develop into a baby.

One more "scientific" method although without the kind of guarantee that the first method gives, requires separating of the sperm that brings about a male or a female child, after which using these sperm to fertilise the egg. Two methods are commonly used. In one method, male reproductive fluid in a container is made to spin at high speeds, which is believed to aggregate the "male" and "female" sperm separately due to their distinct sizes. Depending on the gender of the baby you want, sperm from the top or bottom of the aggregate is used for fertilization. The second method tries to identify "male" and "female" sperm depending on their sizes, utilizing a dye that sticks to the sperm.

In both these instances you cannot get pregnant naturally through sex. You may have to try more than once for a successful pregnancy. And of course, these procedures are quite expensive.

Techniques based on timing of conceiving. The most common of these are based on the Shettles' method. If we go by the postings on forums, we find that many couples have used this method successfully, while some have not.

You can find websites that sell methods to choose the sex of your baby based almost exclusively on the idea of changing the Ph of your reproductive tract. The idea is that the acidic-alkaline environment in the female's vaginal canal can help or inhibit the chances of conceiving a baby boy or a baby girl by making it easier or difficult for male or female sperm to survive and fertilise the egg.

Gender Selection Software. We now have sites (including mine) featuring to give you a prediction of the likelihood of your conceiving a boy or a girl, for each day of any year.

When the dates of birth of the father and the mother are entered into the software program, it generates the probability of conceiving a male child or a female child for any given period. The advantage claimed for using software-generated dates is that you can avoid the trouble of tracking your body temperature or secretions for one to three months.

The other benefit is that the software program gives us periods of two weeks to two months during which we can conceive to have the baby of our preference, unlike other gender selection ideas that give you a few dates within which you must conceive, or you've missed it.

In conclusion, I would say this: if you are dead serious about choosing the sex of your baby, have the cash (around 50,000 dollars) to burn, and are also prepared to endure the inconvenience and the risk of failure a few times, you can go for the latest medical treatment.

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