The Ericsson Method
Most soon to be parents are anxious to know what the sex of their baby will be.They may wait until birth or have an amniocentesis done to determine baby gender. Men and women have been using countless techniques to try to increase the odds for one gender over another for eons. In medieval times, men would tie or even remove one testicle thinking that the sperm for a girl or boy came from separate testicles.
The Ericsson method is where sperm is collected from the father and put into a cone-containing albumin. They centrifuge, clean, thin out, and place the sperm in a test tube.
The test tube is filled with increasing thicknesses of albumin in which the sperm is left for one hour. The stronger sperm or male sperm swim down into the albumin, the top layer is removed and the test tube is left to stand another hour, the next layer is thrown out and the solution after being centrifuged is used for the A-I process. This method certainly seems to help determine baby gender. The sperm are then sorted, the faster ones male and the slower swimming ones being female.
The mother is inseminated with the sperm and if she wants a girl then she is also given the drug Clomid to up the chances. The success rate with the Ericsson method is between 78 and 85 percent for males and 72 to 75 percent for girls. This is just one of the scientific ways to determine baby gender and one of the more controversial methods. There are many doubters although the results from medical studies are somewhat positive.
This method is the least expensive method, mainly because in vitro fertilization is not needed with this process. Strangely, scientific ways to determine baby gender appears to be accessible in more than a few countries where they have banned other gender selection procedures. India is one such country where a clear wish for males has now affected a sex percentage disparity, also in the UK where babies seem to be sought for their genetic engineering.
