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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm looking for perspectives from people who have done IVF with genetic testing: did you select the sex of your embryos for transfer?

We are doing genetic testing for age reasons and will be able to find out the sex. The sex has never been that important to me. In fact, part of me is tempted to merely ask the doctor to place the best-looking embryo. In the event we are able to have two children, perhaps my ideal would be one of each. But this journey to even getting pregnant has been so difficult I am not going to tempt fate at this point.

Did you choose? Leave it to the embryologist? What went into your decision? Anything that you regretted later? Thanks.
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We did full genetic testing, including the sex, and transferred the sex we wanted. If you have PGS results, looks don't come into play.[/quote]

Aren’t they still graded and therefore ranked?[/quote]

In my experience, yes. Maybe PPs were all ranked the same so doctor didn’t mention it? But at least at SGF, PGS embryos are still graded.[/quote]

We did ours in 2018 so it's possible that the technology has changed.  All we were told was that we have four PGS normals, and their sex.   SGF did not mention rank to us at all.  When we were transferring, they asked what sex we wanted, and that was that. [/quote]

This is similar to what happened to us.  We were told they were all normal.  Told there was no evidence-based difference in them in terms of outcome.  I wasn't really going to let some random pick the gender.  So I picked.

This was also a while ago though when the PGS option was newer.[/quote]

Actually there are now several studies that seem to indicate that well graded euploid embryos do better than poorly graded euploid embryos and day 5 euploid embryos have a higher likelihood of success than day 7.  For example— 
https://www.fertstert.org/article/S0015-0282(16)63012-1/pdf

That’s why embryologists and doctors will consider the embryo grade along with the day when determine which embryos to transfer first.[/quote]

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