Gender test
One company in Virginia at the forefront of the technology will soon be offering this service to a wider public. gender test Prenatal gender test. Early Show Medical Correspondent Dr. Emily Senay reports. Scott and Monique Collins were among the first parents to scientifically select a female child: 6-year-old daughter Jessica. gender test Chinese-gender-charts. "After having two boys, I thought they needed a sister, too. Probably more so for me. I wanted to have a daughter. gender test Predict gender of baby. It was just real important that I had a daughter," says Monique Collins. "I wanted to have someone to play Barbies with and to go shopping with; I wanted the little girl with long hair and pink and doing fingernails," she adds. Doctors at the Genetics and IVF Institute in Fairfax, Va. , have developed the technology to select the gender of a child before conception by sorting and separating male and female sperm. "We are currently achieving 90 percent success for girls and about 70 to 75 percent success for boys," explains Genetics and IVF Institute medical director Dr. Keith Blauer. So far, more than 300 babies have been born using this technique. Dr. Blauer says couples must be screened before the technique is offered. "Currently, we have two indications approved. The first would be for prevention of genetic disease such an x-linked disorder like hemophilia. The second is for family balancing, where the couple is married, and they would like a child of the less-represented gender. For instance, if they have three boys, we would help them have a girl or vice versa," Dr. Blauer says. For Debbie and Marcel, the technique was a matter of life and death. They were selected to avoid a devastating genetic form of muscular dystrophy that only passes from mothers to sons. "I had a brother that was affected with the disease.
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