How to Make a Girl, Literally

This post is about sex selection. Not whether or not to have it, but how to make a girl or a boy, and the ethical questions.

We were given the option of "selecting" the sex of the embryos they are going to transfer. There are two different ways of achieving this. First, you can fertilize all of the embryos, and then take a cell from each to determine whether it is a girl embryo or boy embryo, and then only transfer the girls back to the uterus. There is a 100% chance of success with this method. Second, they can sort the sperm. Girls over here, boys go over there, see ya boys, you're dismissed for the day. There's a 90% chance of getting what you want that way. I personally think this is the better option of the two. The reason I think it's better, is because then you aren't discarding unused boy embryos, because all of the useable embryos are girls.

We decided not to pick a girl. Our main reason for that is because there is a 50% chance that we are going to have twins anyway, and I'd like to take my chances that we'd get a girl and a boy. Another reason we decided against it involves spirituality and the belief that souls are chosen before birth. What if we were supposed to have a boy, and we stuck it in a girl body? Well I'd be fine with it, but it's just not fair to make a child live their life in the wrong body.

Therefore, we will probably end up with a boy, because that's all that EF's family makes. We'll be happy either way, as long as we get a healthy one.