ICSI And Fewer Male Births!

Recent studies stated that undergoing fertility treatments like ICSI (Intra Cytoplasmic Sperm Injection) may decrease the birth rate of baby boys.

Previous studies stated that natural conception can lead to 105 baby boys out of 100 baby girls. This helps to balance the higher number of deaths among male fetuses and infants.

But according to the recent studies, the ratio of baby boys to girls is reversed with the people who take assisted reproductive technique such as ICSI.

This procedure is generally used to treat male factor infertility. ICSI involves injecting sperm from the father directly into eggs taken from the mother; if one or more embryos develop over the next few days, they are transferred to the mother's uterus.

The effect of fewer baby boys is observed when ICSI was performed by using blastocyst-stage embryos, in which embryos are matured a couple days longer than the traditional norm before they are transferred to the mother. It makes your doctor to transform fewer embryos to reduce the odds of having multiple births.

So, to prevent this harmful side effect, scientists suggested physicians to confine the use of ICSI to couple that are in extreme needs.