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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can you really choose gender in IVF?[/quote] After the embryo's are fertilized in the lab, they are grown to the blastocyst stage (about 120 cells.) Then they can pull a few cells from what will become the placenta and test for chromosomal abnormalities, which also identifies the sex of the baby. This is called PGS or PGD testing and costs about an extra $5,000 dollars. In my experience most families who are doing IVF dont have enough embryos or money or time to redo IVF just to get their sex preference. However if you are lucky enough to have normal embryos of both sexes you might select which one you implant first. [/quote]
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