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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sometimes this brave new world scares the crap out of me. You have 9 potential people on ice, and you want a scientist to tell you which one will be the most likely to turn out to be your perfect kid. I know OP is only talking about choosing the embryo with no obvious chromosomal defects and a specific gender, but what if all her embryos meet that test? Then does she test for other attributes (when that's possible)? Blonde hair, blue eyes, no cancer markers, no gay gene?

OP, I get that you'd like your second child to be a certain gender. But truly, can't you live with the odds like the rest of us?[/quote]

OP here. This would be the third, not second child.  And the answer to your question is that if more than one embryos turn out to be chromosomally normal and of the wanted sex, then one needs to remember that this in no way guarantees either implantation or successful pregnancy carried to term.  Then we would just go through the preferred sex first, and if none works, go to the other ones.

The idea of nine potential people on ice scares me too.  Sometimes I wish we just had two or three, and then none of that hand-wringing (and a big fat PGS check!) would have been necessary. [/quote]

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