Re: single sex families

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At Mon, 5 Nov 2001, sally wrote: >
>Hi...I wonder if a doc could shed some light on this, I watched a
>programme on ivf, which followed women through the process, the case
>which interested me was a couple who had 4 boys then a little girl who
>died in a fire aged 6, they went to Italy because the u.k. won't offer
>ivf in order to select sex of embryo, and they only wanted another baby
>if it was a girl although they knew that their daughter couldn't be
>replaced. Sorry for the waffle, but the specialist stated that because
>the couple had had 4 boys in a row, conception was heavily swayed
>towards boys even in vitro. I know that I must finish the story now cos
>u will all want to know, the only embryo which was fertilised was male,
>so they decided to donate it to someone else.
>Anyways disregarding the rights/wrongs of the situation, why are the
>odds so much higher, I speak as someone with 5 daughters.
> Thank you Sall

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James Wang, M.D
Assitant Clinical Prof.
Tufts University School of Medicine

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