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By Robin Elise Weiss, LCCE, About.com Guide to Pregnancy / Birth since 1997

Sex Selection Techniques for Pregnancy - Girl or boy?

Sunday April 26, 2009
Looking at a family where the girls or boys rule, you might wonder about sex selection techniques. This is how some families go about family balancing - having at least one child of each sex before finalizing their families. From timing methods like Shettles Method to sperm spinning and other high tech reproductive techniques like MicroSort®, there is help for families who are interested. In fact, one of the newest methods of sex selection (also known as gender selection) is called preimplantation genetic haplotyping (PGH). This newest form of sex selection also screens for over 600 genetic diseases.

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