TY  - JOUR
T1  - SEx selection before child's conception
Y1  - 1979/03/23
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1979.03290380004002
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 1220
EP  - 1220
VL  - 241
IS  - 12
N2  - A technique involving a swimming race of sorts is being used at Chicago's Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center in an effort to ensure that embryos will be male at the time of conception.W. Paul Dmowski, MD, PhD, and co-workers are using a modified version of a technique introduced in 1973 by Ronald Ericsson, PhD, of Sausalito, Calif. So far, 14 of about 45 women have become pregnant after insemination with their husbands' semen that was collected and processed in the Fertility Unit that Dmowski directs.Seven women gave birth to boys, four had girls, one is expecting her baby in June, and two miscarried (one of these fetuses was male; the sex of the other could not be determined at that early stage). In two of the four pregnancies that resulted in female infants, Dmowski says, coitus without contraceptive protection occurred between the time of artificial insemination and
SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1979.03290380004002
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1979.03290380004002
ER  -