How To Conceive a Boy Or a Girl

Is IVF & PGD Gender Selection Treatment Reliable?

 

 

 

The IVF with PGD Gender Selection treatment is the most reliable treatment on the market right now. Unlike many other unproven methods that do not guarantee a success rate, gender selection with IVF & PGD gives our clients near 100% guarantee of conceiving a child of their chosen gender.

 

 

What is The Treatment to Conceive a Boy or a Girl?

 

IVF

 

The treatment uses IVF (In Vitro Fertilisation) to produce embryos externally under laboratory conditions. IVF involves several stages, which are performed by the embryologist and physician. The ovaries must be stimulated using drugs to produce numerous eggs for use in the IVF cycle.  Most eggs are not genetically capable of producing babies, so more eggs increase the odds of having good eggs .

FSH/LH is given by injection in an IVF cycle, which bypasses the normal feedback/regulation mechanism allowing the development of multiple eggs.

 

IVF patients are given Lupron, Antagon or Cetrotide to stop the production of internal reproductive hormones allowing the physician to control the stimulation cycle by preventing the LH surge. In a normal cycle, once the follicles mature, the pituitary releases a surge of luteinizing hormone, which initiates ovulation. In an IVF cycle, ovulation must not occur prior to egg retrieval or the cycle will be lost. Ovulation cannot occur while Lupron or Antagon are given unless an injection of hCGor LH is given.

 

Egg Collection

Once the follicles mature, an injection of hCG is given and egg retrieval is scheduled. Egg retrieval is accomplished by "ultrasound guided transvaginal aspiration". A small needle is passed through the top of the vagina into the follicle and the eggs are retrieved when the follicle fluid is aspirated and the follicle is drained. This procedure is done using light anesthesia

 

Fertilisation

The eggs are passed to the embryologist who separates them from the follicular fluid and places them in Petri dishes containing specially prepared solutions. Sperm is obtained from the male partner prior to the egg retrieval and washed and prepared. This sperm is then placed in the Petri dishes with the eggs. Successful fertilization requires that one sperm attach to and penetrate an egg. Oftentimes, more embryos are created than can be safety transferred to the mother. When this occurs some of the embryos are cryopreserved for use in the future.

 

Gametes (egg and sperm) contain half of the mother's and father's genetic material unlike other cells that contain a full complement. When the sperm and eggs combine the resultant embryo has a full set of chromosomes, half from each parent. In some cases, there are not enough "quality" sperm available to penetrate the egg and cause fertilization. Intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) is a procedure where a single sperm is inserted directly into the egg. ICSI can be successful when as few as one sperm is available. ICSI was a major advance in treating male infertilitymaking it possible for men with no ejaculate to produce a genetically related child. Our male infertilitytreatment program often recommends ICSI in cases of male factor infertility.

 

The fertilized eggs are transferred to an incubator and allowed to culture until they are ready for transfer. This could be from 3-6 days and is case specific. Once mature, the embryo transfer procedure is scheduled

 

Implantation

 

Embryo transfer is a painless procedure requiring less than ten minutes where the embryos are placed into the mother's uterus using a small catheter. Once inside the uterus, the embryo implants into the endometrium (lining of the uterus) and continues to divide and develop into a fetus

 

Choosing the Baby's Gender Using PGD

 

Once the eggs have been successfully fertilised to become embryos and the embryos have developed over three days to form 6 to 8 cells, a technique called PGD (Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis) is used to determine the gender of each embryo. This is teh key process for gender selection.

 

PGD test are conducted by removing one of the cells from the embryo to analyse the make up of the chromosomes. This procedure of analysing the cells establishes whether the embryo is male or female. Once a healthy embryo of the desired gender is identified, it is placed into the mother's uterus for development. It must be noted that the removal of the cell from the embryo does not have any adverse effect on the embryo. This procedure of physically determining the gender of the cells in the embryo ensures that the resulting child is pretty much guaranteed to have the desired gender (barring any technical problems).