No. I don’t think it’s a good idea to artificially change the gender ratio. Look at what is happening in some countries where abortion and infanticide of female babies is practiced. Now they have a generation of a lot of men who can’t find wives.
Even that aside, I feel like I would like to leave it in the hands of “fate”. I dont have kids yet but I want them someday. I think the surprise will be part of the fun. 
Plus I never quite fit the typical gender role myself. I was a tomboy-ish girl who hated playing with dolls, so if my mom would have chosen me to be a girl because she wanted a prissy little girly girl to dress up she would have been very disappointed.
My husband has a genetic condition that he will pass on to any daughters we might have. The long and the short of it is that we can’t have kids until a 100% reliable method of gender selection comes along. So I’m all for it.
I did get to choose. And chose not to.
We adopted our first from South Korea and (at that time with that agency) were given a choice. We chose not to choose (virtually assuring us of a boy, btw).
As it turned out my daughter was born six months after my son came home, so I ended up with one of each.
I like how your name islavenderviolet.
I would. I only want one child and I want a daughter to spoil rotten and grow up to be a daddy’s girl.
No, because it doesn’t matter to me what gender it is. Besides which, it would take me the full 9 months to decide. Hell, I can barely even make it out of the ice cream parlor in under half an hour: “Ooh, mint chocolate chip! I know I like that! But wait, strawberry raisin nut sounds interesting and different! But what if I don’t like it? But what if mint chocolate chip is boring this time? And I haven’t even considered rocky road or boysenberry swirl? Oh dear sweet Jesus, how shall I ever decide?!?”
Choosing the gender of my child? No, thanks. My life is stressful enough as it is.
I have 3 kids and I really wasn’t interested in what type of kid it would be. There’s no telling, actually. You could get a “male” reading and it turns out to be a woman trapped in a man’s body. Or vice versa. I love my kids and gender is the last thing on my mind. I’d vote NO on the choosing part, simply because most guys seem to think a son would perpetuate them in some way. While I disagree with that, it would be too awful if baby girls were left with the wolves again.
- PW
And those are the countries we Americans are getting mail-order brides from! :smack:
Is the whole world screwed up? :eek:
That’s strange. Usually sex-linked genetic defects are passed on to boys.
My sweetie pie and I are definitely choosing the sex of our children. I mean, we’ll be happy either way, but we want to weight the odds in our favour with help from Mr. Centrifuge.
I would have chosen. As long as it carried no risk to the embryo, I’d definitely have chosen.
I really really wanted a daughter and I had 3 sons. My middle son was a girl on the ultrasound 3 times. That helped me cope as our first son was stillborn and I wanted everything about the second pregnancy to be different. When he was born and he was a boy, it was just shocking. It took me about a week to come to terms with it.
I knew my final pregnancy was the final pregnancy. No matter what the outcome we were not prepared to try again.
I love my boys and I like having them but I would have chosen a daughter as well.
Nope, on the proviso that there were no gender-specific inheritable diseases to worry about.
I like surprises.
Yeah… I mean… if he has it then any daughters you have will be carriers of the genetic defect unless of course it’s a dominant allele… If it’s a dominant then the daughters of course will have it but if it’s recessive they will only have it unless you have it as well and if you are only a carrier they will have a 50% chance of getting it (note 50% for daughters not children in general, then it drops to 25%)… if it’s a son then they won’t have it because you indicate it’s X-linked and your husband would add the Y chromosome not the X… and of course if it’s not sex linked then it’s a matter of whatever is the dominant allele or if you are a carrier as well.
Yeah I paid attention to genetics in Bio class can’t you tell? 
Years ago I read a study that showed if people could choose, most would choose boys…being a Gay man, that would not be a bad thing for me, but for the sake of planet Earth, that could be a bad thing.
With a slight hijack, I once did an interview with an East German doctor who claimed he could isolate the gene that created Gay and Lesbian children. The East German goverment (before the Wall went down) was doing studies.
My first question to him was why?
He looked me in the eye and said, “because homosexulity is abnormal and should be stopped.”
I think there is a purpose why people are born to be what they are. While I don’t disagree with prenatal health to ensure babies are born healthy, I think there has to be a limit to deciding anything else.
I don’t think it is coincidence that the world’s population has always remained constant at about 52-48 male to female (give or take a few percentage points).
There are horror stories of underdeveloped countries abandoning or mutulating female children. Just look at which gender is being adopted by foreigners in China today.
I understand parents with four boys who would love to have a girl, or vice versa. But choosing the sex of a child could lead to some very dangerous fluxuations in the earth’s populace.
I say,
I don’t know where that “I say,” at the bottom of my post came from. I think I said enough.
If we, as women had a choice of the sex of our children, we would apt to be childless. In the year 2525, if man is still alive, if women can survive.
Shit, lets just hope our kids are healthy, wealthy and wise. Their brains (head circumference) are getting bigger at birth. Way over 10 centimeters.
If I could choose which If I could really choose to be pregnant, and choose a kid out of a line up, I would choose not to have any child. boy or girl. theres too many in the world for me to go around having them, picking and choosing the gender of my choice.
But since you asked if I could choose my HO is I wouldn’t.
We actually did try a gender-selection method with our last child. We already had two girls, and our reason for having a third was so that, in the words of my husband, we could “try one more time for a boy”. We bought a book, did everything the book said we should do to sway the odds in our favor, and, bam, got a healthy, happy 11 pound 14 ounce girl! Unlike the first two, however, she is very much the tomboy! At 2 years old, she had to get stitches, the older two, 16 and 12, have never had stitches! So, I always joke with hubby and say that our youngest is “the son he always wanted”!
Yeah, he was disappointed he didn’t have a son, and I was disappointed for him, but I don’t think he loves his daughters any less for them being girls.
My father is a gynaecologist who runs the NHS service (you still have to pay for it!) for the diet-related method of sex selection. I print off the diet sheets for him when they’re requested, and put them in the post. In the two years I’ve been doing this for, I’ve only had to print off a girl sheet once. All the others were boys. I’m not sure what the significance of this is, but it’s worth putting out there.
As for me - I don’t want kids. But if I did, I’d want a surprise.
In my case I think the issue is moot but if I were to have a child I would really prefer a boy, so yes, I would. Not that I wouldn’t love my daughter but I have always liked boy children better than girl children.