Finding out sex from PGS testing at SG?

[Anonymous]

I'm doing PGS testing at SG. I don't want to choose the sex of the embryo we transfer, but if I get pregnant and the pregnancy progresses I would like to be able to ask what the sex of the embryo is. I understand from my counseling session with the testing people that they don't report sex to SG. Is there an option to ask for it later?

[Anonymous]

If you get pregnant you can know at about 10-12 weeks with any of the blood tests that check for chromosomal abnormalities. Just because you've done PGS doesn't mean you can't do one of those. Otherwise, you can find out at a 20-week ultrasound!

[Anonymous]

At shady grove they won't unless there is a genetic reason you need to know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm doing PGS testing at SG. I don't want to choose the sex of the embryo we transfer, but if I get pregnant and the pregnancy progresses I would like to be able to ask what the sex of the embryo is. I understand from my counseling session with the testing people that they don't report sex to SG. Is there an option to ask for it later?

SG now takes pretty significant precautions against you finding out gender of embryos. I'm 26 weeks, had the free-cell and know the gender and I still had to get a sign-off from SG before getting that info. That was not the case 3 years ago with my first SG pregnancy. That said, I found out a total of 3 different ways....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm doing PGS testing at SG. I don't want to choose the sex of the embryo we transfer, but if I get pregnant and the pregnancy progresses I would like to be able to ask what the sex of the embryo is. I understand from my counseling session with the testing people that they don't report sex to SG. Is there an option to ask for it later?

SG now takes pretty significant precautions against you finding out gender of embryos. I'm 26 weeks, had the free-cell and know the gender and I still had to get a sign-off from SG before getting that info. That was not the case 3 years ago with my first SG pregnancy. That said, I found out a total of 3 different ways....

Why did you have to get sign-off from SG to get the results of a blood test done by your OB? Or am I missing something?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm doing PGS testing at SG. I don't want to choose the sex of the embryo we transfer, but if I get pregnant and the pregnancy progresses I would like to be able to ask what the sex of the embryo is. I understand from my counseling session with the testing people that they don't report sex to SG. Is there an option to ask for it later?

SG now takes pretty significant precautions against you finding out gender of embryos. I'm 26 weeks, had the free-cell and know the gender and I still had to get a sign-off from SG before getting that info. That was not the case 3 years ago with my first SG pregnancy. That said, I found out a total of 3 different ways....

This doesn't make any sense. Free cell is done at 10 weeks earliest. SG releases you at 8 weeks to your OB. How on earth can they demand to sign off on anything like that? If it completely bypasses them?

On the other hand, I've heard that people requested gender info from the PGS lab and SG OKs it. You pay to the PGS lab and gender is part of the testing, so you pay to a 3rd party for this, however since it's SG that orders the testing they have to concur so you can get it.

[Anonymous]

Wow 12:49- I haven't heard this, but I'd love to know how. I wonder if you request your records the information is contained in the documents.

[Anonymous]

Screw SG!
If you pay for PGS testing you get your results. ALL OF THEM including sex.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Screw SG!
If you pay for PGS testing you get your results. ALL OF THEM including sex.

It doesn't work that way, and SG won't release that information to you. You can't make them. All you can do is take your embryos elsewhere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm doing PGS testing at SG. I don't want to choose the sex of the embryo we transfer, but if I get pregnant and the pregnancy progresses I would like to be able to ask what the sex of the embryo is. I understand from my counseling session with the testing people that they don't report sex to SG. Is there an option to ask for it later?

SG now takes pretty significant precautions against you finding out gender of embryos. I'm 26 weeks, had the free-cell and know the gender and I still had to get a sign-off from SG before getting that info. That was not the case 3 years ago with my first SG pregnancy. That said, I found out a total of 3 different ways....

That sounds fishy, I got pregnant after the first IVF try with SG, and once they release you to your OB, they aren't really at all involved in your care from that point on. No one asked me to get their sign-off on anything. Are you sure that's what it was? Your testing provider WILL ask if you want the gender information (as some people don't) but that's it.

[Anonymous]

My doc at SG agreed to find out the gender from the lab after we saw a heartbeat at our 6w ultrasound - but I did have to ask about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Screw SG!
If you pay for PGS testing you get your results. ALL OF THEM including sex.

It doesn't work that way, and SG won't release that information to you. You can't make them. All you can do is take your embryos elsewhere.

This is plain wrong. What you pay to the testing lab includes gender test. You're entitled to this info, but need SG to sign off on it since they ordered the test. What SG won't do because there is a corporate policy against it is gender selection - they will not allow you to request that a certain gender embryo be transfered. They pick for you. But by all means you can find out that you have 2 girls and 3 boys based on the PGD testing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Screw SG!
If you pay for PGS testing you get your results. ALL OF THEM including sex.

It doesn't work that way, and SG won't release that information to you. You can't make them. All you can do is take your embryos elsewhere.

This is plain wrong. What you pay to the testing lab includes gender test. You're entitled to this info, but need SG to sign off on it since they ordered the test. What SG won't do because there is a corporate policy against it is gender selection - they will not allow you to request that a certain gender embryo be transfered. They pick for you. But by all means you can find out that you have 2 girls and 3 boys based on the PGD testing.

This is a distinction without a difference. The whole point of gender information is to select one vs. the other (if you only have one, or all of one, that obviously doesn't apply). If this information is withheld from you until after the implantation, it's kind of meaningless.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Screw SG!
If you pay for PGS testing you get your results. ALL OF THEM including sex.

It doesn't work that way, and SG won't release that information to you. You can't make them. All you can do is take your embryos elsewhere.

This is plain wrong. What you pay to the testing lab includes gender test. You're entitled to this info, but need SG to sign off on it since they ordered the test. What SG won't do because there is a corporate policy against it is gender selection - they will not allow you to request that a certain gender embryo be transfered. They pick for you. But by all means you can find out that you have 2 girls and 3 boys based on the PGD testing.

This is a distinction without a difference. The whole point of gender information is to select one vs. the other (if you only have one, or all of one, that obviously doesn't apply). If this information is withheld from you until after the implantation, it's kind of meaningless.

But it's not the point of pgs testing.

[Anonymous]

I think people want to know after transfer just out of curiosity! The same way most pregnant people are curious. Knowing that the information exists somewhere but you can't have it makes it extra weird.