Sex Selection Process Works--It’s a Boy!

The world’s first successful combination of sex selection and in-vitro fertilization has resulted in the birth of a healthy baby boy.

The child, named Justin by his parents, was conceived outside his mother’s womb, in a petri dish, through fertilization by his father’s male sperm after separation of male and female sperm by a procedure developed in the late 1970s.

Justin’s mother had two teen-agers by conventional methods, after which she underwent tubal ligation surgery. Three years ago, she had that operation reversed in hopes of conceiving another child.

After trying unsuccessfully for two years, Justin’s parents visited the Fertility Institute of New Orleans. There, they were found to be good candidates for in-vitro fertilization, which is most often used when a woman’s Fallopian tubes are blocked, thus preventing the mating of sperm and egg. The parents also requested that the egg be fertilized with male sperm to increase the likelihood of a male child’s being conceived.

It worked on the first attempt. Justin weighed 8 pounds, 10 ounces.