IVF and baby girls

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Anonymous wrote:This is fascinating, PP. Do you have to pay extra for the testing? Some insurances now cover up to two procedures. It makes sense as to why older mothers prefer girls over boys now.

As someone already explained, PGT-A (previously known as PGS) is a standard part of IVF now. Not everyone does it, but it is a pretty routine part of the process. It is a biopsy that tests for chromosomal abnormalities in the embryo, and part of that testing identifies sex chromosomes. Unless you're Elon Musk, people aren't doing PGT-A ONLY to test for sex, they're doing it so that they don't transfer abnormal embryos that won't turn into healthy pregnancies. Yes it costs extra, somewhere between $3,000-5,000 usually depending on the number of embryos you're testing. But when IVF is $20,000 anyways, another $3k generally isn't a deal breaker.

And insurance varies - only something like 10-15% of insurance policies cover IVF, and the coverage varies widely. It could cover up to a certain number of IVF retrieval cycles or it could cover up to a certain dollar amount. Almost no insurance policies let you "embryo bank" - meaning they require you to transfer any available embryos before doing a new retrieval cycle.

Thanks! OP here. So basically all the women I know having girls probably selected them knowing that they would have a girl! Makes total sense. I knew that my friends didn't want boys. LOL.

Are you trying to demonstrate what a textbook confirmation bias looks like? You clearly don't have much clue about infertility and IVF, and I'd recommend that you refrain from passing judgment on topics you're uninformed/misinformed on. That would just make you a better person overall.

OP clearly doesn’t understand anything about statistics.

[Anonymous]

I did IVF and I had a girl. My two cousins also had their babies through IVF at the same time: boy-girl twins for one and boy twins for the other. No gender selection.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is fascinating, PP. Do you have to pay extra for the testing? Some insurances now cover up to two procedures. It makes sense as to why older mothers prefer girls over boys now.

As someone already explained, PGT-A (previously known as PGS) is a standard part of IVF now. Not everyone does it, but it is a pretty routine part of the process. It is a biopsy that tests for chromosomal abnormalities in the embryo, and part of that testing identifies sex chromosomes. Unless you're Elon Musk, people aren't doing PGT-A ONLY to test for sex, they're doing it so that they don't transfer abnormal embryos that won't turn into healthy pregnancies. Yes it costs extra, somewhere between $3,000-5,000 usually depending on the number of embryos you're testing. But when IVF is $20,000 anyways, another $3k generally isn't a deal breaker.

And insurance varies - only something like 10-15% of insurance policies cover IVF, and the coverage varies widely. It could cover up to a certain number of IVF retrieval cycles or it could cover up to a certain dollar amount. Almost no insurance policies let you "embryo bank" - meaning they require you to transfer any available embryos before doing a new retrieval cycle.

Thanks! OP here. So basically all the women I know having girls probably selected them knowing that they would have a girl! Makes total sense. I knew that my friends didn't want boys. LOL.

You sound very silly and immature, OP. Most people who go through IVF are thrilled just to have a healthy baby.

[Anonymous]

We did one cycle of IVF and were fortunate enough to get eight day five embryos. We had them PGS tested due to my age (36). 6 out of the 8 were normal. We had 5 male embryos and 1 female embryo. (The PGS report we were sent includes the gender for each embryo - I'm sure if you tried, you could keep them secret from yourself....but that would mean not reading the report and just getting a download from your doctor.)

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My IVF baby is a boy. Three friends also did ivf. 3 boys and 2 girls.

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It is almost 50/50 with a slightly greater percentage of boys if you look at the data.
My friends that did IVF almost all had boys- myself included -- based on selecting which PGS normal embryo looked the best.
all of this is to say that I don't think you can generalize. Some couples produce girls and some produce boys.

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Anonymous wrote:Can you really choose gender in IVF?

Yes! And people often have a preference for girls. Given many IVF parents are older, girls are less likely to have autism.

Most people just go with the best looking embryos. Once you get to the point of IVF, you aren’t choosy about the sex.

Eh, I have one boy and one girl from IVF. Once you get the point of IVF, I think you get the right to be choosy if you want.