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Don't get Chrissy Glen wrong.
After four years spent coping with the heartache of infertility treatments that didn't work, she considers herself blessed to have a healthy baby girl finally conceived through in-vitro fertilization.
Jenna is a gift, she says, but if they are lucky enough to produce another child, Glen and her husband, Tim, hope for a boy to balance the gender ratio in their family.
Two years ago, 16 of her eggs were mixed with his sperm in a laboratory dish, yielding seven embryos. Two were transferred into her uterus (only one implanted successfully), leaving five available for another shot at IVF.
Using a technique that tests the gender of their remaining embryos before they are placed in the womb, the Glens could all but guarantee themselves a boy next time.
"We would really like to have one of each," says the 34-year-old stay-at-home mom from Richboro, Bucks County. "So that is definitely something we are going to consider."
It's a brave new world in childbearing, where advances in reproductive technology mean Mother Nature doesn't necessarily determine whether...
After four years spent coping with the heartache of infertility treatments that didn't work, she considers herself blessed to have a healthy baby girl finally conceived through in-vitro fertilization.
Jenna is a gift, she says, but if they are lucky enough to produce another child, Glen and her husband, Tim, hope for a boy to balance the gender ratio in their family.
Two years ago, 16 of her eggs were mixed with his sperm in a laboratory dish, yielding seven embryos. Two were transferred into her uterus (only one implanted successfully), leaving five available for another shot at IVF.
Using a technique that tests the gender of their remaining embryos before they are placed in the womb, the Glens could all but guarantee themselves a boy next time.
"We would really like to have one of each," says the 34-year-old stay-at-home mom from Richboro, Bucks County. "So that is definitely something we are going to consider."
It's a brave new world in childbearing, where advances in reproductive technology mean Mother Nature doesn't necessarily determine whether...