Would you pay to ensure the sex of your child?

I had a conversation last night at Big Wangs with some guys at the bar. One of the guys said that he has 4 girls under the age of 12 and wants a boy. His friend was adamant there are positions and certain nights to have sex to ensure a boy and the main guy was adamant about just paying the doctor to ensure he has a boy.

What are your thoughts on this? Would you pay a doctor to ensure the sex of your child?

Personally, I have two girls biological and one none biological girl... I want a boy and when the time is right I am almost 100% I'll talk to a doctor to ensure i have a boy.

 

I wouldn't want to choose the sex of my child. Probably easy for me to say since I have one of each, but I felt this way even before I had kids. To me, I don't want to mess with what I'm "meant to have". Plus, I wonder about the long term ramifications if couples move towards selecting the sex of their future children? I don't care if people go that route or not, but I do wonder how that might change the male/female ratios.

 

absolutely not no, we are lucky to get children if that is our fate, why are we so arrogant to be able to pick and choose the gender?
Ok, if its a genetics thing, if future boys or girls have the threat of carrying terrible disease for example, then that's a different issue, but to just sort of say ''ooh I want a girl, honey get my credit card!'' or whatever to me is just messing where we have no right to mess.
I have three boys, and yes, after two I thought a girl would be lovely, but I had another boy and I certainly wasn't disappointed. I am now sterilised, but if by any querk of fate I was to have another one, yes again, I would like a girl, but it certainly wouldn't be any kind of issue if it were to be another boy.
You aren't picking a new sofa, you are having children.

 

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to suzieb again.

 

Big wangs... That alone requires a conversation such as how did the owner come up with the name. I'm likely to say yes.

 

i wouldnt pay. i didnt even want to know what i m expecting when i had my girls.
from my religious point i think children are gods gifts and we shouldnt play with that, but i m not forcing anybody to think my way and i wouldnt pass judgement on someone who does pay.

 

To me, gender doesn't matter.

I'd maybe pay to to ensure that my child could hear, instead of being genetically deaf.

But that depends on where I'm living... Living in this stupid part of Canada, I'd pay anything I could to make sure my child could hear. There's no deaf schools. There isn't enough interpreters, there are no deaf peers for them.
There's no one "young" involved in the deaf community, so with a potential deaf kid... they'd be as isolated in my family as I am... and they wouldn't have the deaf community to escape to.

(While, if I was living in a larger city in the US, I wouldn't care about the hearing status at all.).

 

Yes, I would.

Curious to know where you're at with this now.

 

I'm thinking I wouldn't. That said, I might think differently if I had 5 and all were the same gender.

 

Nope. But I have 2 of each too.

 

No. It’s not that serious.

 

Gender no but I would pay to make the kid the best of what mine and my partners genetics have to offer. Smart mathematically inclined and talented at martial arts.
The looks part I've never been to worried about because I keep noticing that shit depends on current trends more than anything else

 

Thank God prenatal diagnostics isn’t there yet.

 

And to answer the question, no!

 

I wonder if you’d change your mind when you find out the details of how that works.

 

Why? We'd make better humans.

 

1. IVF, ICSI and all it entails is no
joke for the woman going through it. I wouldn’t do it just for the sex of the baby. In fact, maybe if I hadn’t been able to get pregnant maybe I’d have adopted instead of putting myself through fertility treatments.
2. Secondly, I’m not a friend of the “designer baby” trend.

 

I’m confident you’ll have a smart baby anyway. When is the baby arriving by the way? Hope mum is fine as well.

 

I can't imagine what could be so bad about it if they are using my sperm, her egg and her womb. We can't possibly break any scientific laws because that's impossible. Also there is nothing special about the regular way of doing it. Sex is only pleasurable, but in terms of procreation there isn't anything too much different that can be done and no way is more special than any other. Either way we are simply advanced apes.

There is no risk of a person being born without a "spirit" or anything like that. So if it works it could be taken as a sign of "God's" approval or good science. Either way it should be celebrated.

 

I’m not talking about God’s approval, I’m saying that fertility treatments from the hormonal stimulation of the ovaries, the egg harvesting, the implanting and all those things the body has to go through for IVF I personally don’t understand why anyone would go through that just because...
Overstimulation Syndrome alone can land you in the hospital and is actually life threatening. I just think a lot of people the whole thing to be so simple. The whole procedure isn’t that much fun.