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Can you choose the sex of your baby?
Whether you're hoping for a boy or girl, here's what you need to know about sex selection
by: Sydney Loney
In This Article
Baby Gender Selection
- The only truly reliable way to influence a baby’s sex is medically.
- Medically assisted sex selection for non-medical reasons is banned in Canada.
- However, some of the sex-selection methods rooted in folklore may not be so farfetched after all.
- What you eat and when you conceive may affect the sex of your baby.
here are a lot of myths out there when it comes to baby making (sleep with a wooden spoon under your bed if you want a girl, or eat only the ends of loaves of bread if you want a boy). Here’s how to separate fact from fiction.
Medically assisted sex selection
The only truly reliable way to influence a baby’s sex is medically, through procedures such as Pre-implantation Genetic Screening (PGS). This (very) expensive procedure guarantees a baby's sex through in vitro fertilization, but it is normally only used by couples who are trying to avoid passing on sex-specific genetic illnesses, such as hemophilia. (Medically assisted sex selection for non-medical reasons is banned in Canada because of the ethical questions surrounding sex discrimination.)
