Reproductive Partners Fertility Blog » sex ratio http://www.reproductivepartners.com/blog Helping couples acheive the dream of being parents. Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:06:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Sex Ratio and Blastocyst Transfer http://www.reproductivepartners.com/blog/230/sex-ratio-and-blastocyst-transfer.html http://www.reproductivepartners.com/blog/230/sex-ratio-and-blastocyst-transfer.html#comments Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:30:11 +0000 Dr. Arthur Wisot FACOG http://www.reproductivepartners.com/blog/?p=230 One frequent question I hear is, "Does doing a blastocyst transfer increase my chance of having a boy." Urban legend has it that there is a greater chance of a boy with a blastocyst transfer because male embryos supposedly develop more quickly than females.

Now a study published in the October 2009 edition of "Fertility and Sterility" shows…

]]> One frequent question I hear is, "Does doing a blastocyst transfer increase my chance of having a boy." Urban legend has it that there is a greater chance of a boy with a blastocyst transfer because male embryos supposedly develop more quickly than females.

Now a study published in the October 2009 edition of "Fertility and Sterility" shows that "male embryos do not grow faster than female embryos in culture. Blastocyst transfer does not result in a sex-ratio imbalance in resulting offspring." This study from Australia followed the resuts of 435 blastocyst transfers and reached the conclusion that there is no increase in male births.
 

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