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Assisted Sex Selection

Proven Ways to Choose Your Baby's Gender

Part 2

By Virginia Gilbert

"I am just your ordinary suburban soccer mom and never thought I would ever find myself in this position," she says. "After having three boys, I just thought I would never get the opportunity to experience the joys and tribulations that come with raising both sexes. MicroSort and their medical technology has at least given me a chance of having that little girl I dream about."

Warren will not learn her baby's sex until her ultrasound. "I am fully aware that this could be another boy and would have never considered MicroSort if I only wanted a girl and not another child," she says.

Although she was fortunate enough to conceive on her first try, Karen admits her high-tech experience caused "some rocky times" in her marriage. "You are spending a lot of money for only a 15- to 20-percent chance of getting pregnant," says Warren. "There was the issue of taking Clomid [to boost the odds of getting a girl], because it increased the risk of twins, we did not opt for it. That was all I thought about for months."

Warren gives the Genetics and IVF Institute, where MicroSort is performed, a big thumbs up. The staff members were friendly and the typical patient was very much like her, "someone who already had two, three or four boys and this was going to be their last child."