My best friend is a custom ordered baby and guess what?

Re: My best friend is a custom ordered baby and guess what?

• chucknorris11 member

  February 2010

  What exactly is a custom order baby?

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• krt100706 member

  February 2010

  Wow!  I guess those things might happen if you mess with nature.

  

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• alicia11780

  February 2010

  ahartzle:

  What exactly is a custom order baby?

  I was wondering the same thing.  Maybe a sperm donor baby?

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• dragonsmercy member

  February 2010

  ahartzle:

  What exactly is a custom order baby?

  This... was his mom taken in by that scam where you picked out whatever traits in a mate you wanted, and you got their sperm, or something??
  

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• AllyRo

  February 2010

  custom order baby??? never heard of such a thing
  

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• MrsTeague member

  February 2010

  Custom order I'm assuming she means that they fertilized the eggs and chose a male to implant maybe?
  

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• krt100706 member

  February 2010

  Haven't you ever heard of those parents who do some kind of insemination and the lab basically manipulates the genes somehow.  I know it has been done when they want a certain sex of baby. 

  

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• nicolesspirit member

  February 2010

  His mother is a world renowned pediatric heart surgeon and the father is a geneticist so they volunteered her embryos to be "designed"  in a experimental run to be specifically male and exhibit certain features. CRAZY CRAZY CRAZY

  
  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

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• krt100706 member

  February 2010

  I just googled and here is what I found:

  https://www.gender-selection.com/?gclid=COa-06TB-p8CFYZx5QodXw54Ww

  https://www.givf.com/familybalancing/whatisfamilybalancing.cfm?_kk=choosing%20the%20sex%20of%20your%20baby&_kt=7d42d193-77f1-4945-ba84-45a2ca0f2115&gclid=CP_dnsXB-p8CFd1L5QodeD-WXg

  People really do this stuff!   I read something about it years ago and always thought it was a really bad idea.  I would love to have a girl for our next child but would never go this far.  I think if you want a certain sex baby you should adopt!

  

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• rosesandpeonies member

  February 2010

  It is usually used so that genetic illnesses are not passed to the baby, so there is a reason behind it. 

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• ZaIrery

  February 2010

  Wait... isn't that illegal? I'm pretty sure it is in Canada... maybe not the US.

  ETA This reminds me of that movie Gattaca w Ethan Hawke.
  

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• blushingbrideoct07

  February 2010

  nicolesspirit:

  His mother is a world renowned pediatric heart surgeon and?the father?is a geneticist so they volunteered her embryos to be "designed"? in a experimental run to be specifically male and exhibit certain features. CRAZY CRAZY CRAZY

  Smart people can be so stupid sometimes....?

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• smilelari member

  February 2010

  Generally if parents want a certain sex they do IVF w/ either PGD or CGH which is genetic testing, not genetic alteration or mutation.  It's done sometimes when there is a serious genetic disease/issue that would only be passed to one sex.

  
  
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• coldplaygrl829

  February 2010

  krt100706:

  I just googled and here is what I found:

  https://www.gender-selection.com/?gclid=COa-06TB-p8CFYZx5QodXw54Ww

  https://www.givf.com/familybalancing/whatisfamilybalancing.cfm?_kk=choosing%20the%20sex%20of%20your%20baby&_kt=7d42d193-77f1-4945-ba84-45a2ca0f2115&gclid=CP_dnsXB-p8CFd1L5QodeD-WXg

  People really do this stuff!   I read something about it years ago and always thought it was a really bad idea.  I would love to have a girl for our next child but would never go this far.  I think if you want a certain sex baby you should adopt!

  Wow...that's so bizarre. I understand doing this if genetic diseases may be an issue, but doing it solely to have one sex over the other seems a tad extreme. I agree - adopt if you're that bent on the "right" sex of your baby. Tampering with Mother Nature is dangerous business.
  

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