If you're hoping to use MicroSort to conceive a son or a daughter, get ready for the sticker shock to get even worse. There's just been a significant price increase in the sperm sorting service.
Notes:
| Service |
March 2005 |
March 2006 |
Increase |
| MicroSort Sperm Sorting |
$2,995 |
$3,400 |
$405 |
| Extra sorted vial |
$651 |
$700 |
$49 |
| Patient Consultation (GIVF) |
$265 |
$300 |
$35 |
| Patient Consultation (Collaborator) |
$133 |
$300 |
$167 |
| IUI Procedure (1) |
$329 |
$365 |
$36 |
| Daily Monitoring for IUI (2) |
$392/day |
$475/day |
$83/day |
| Full Monitoring for IUI (3) |
$1,169 |
$1,650 |
$481 |
| Review Outside Monitoring for IUI (4) |
$496 |
$625 |
$128 |
- Fee for IUI procedure only, does not include sort or ovulation monitoring.
- If you choose to detect ovulation yourself using at-home ovulation prediction kits (OPKs), you can pay this fee for one day of testing to confirm ovulation.
- Fee for complete ovulation monitoring at GIVF
- Fee for GIVF to review the results of ovulation monitoring tests, and coordinate your cycle, with an outside doctor. You must still pay your doctor for the tests.
About Maureen
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About Me
In 1999, my two sons were 4 and 2 years old, and we were ready to have another baby. I hoped to have a daughter, and I turned to the Internet to search for ways of increasing the odds of conceiving a girl. I discovered the iVillage Gender Determination Board. On the board, I found information about at-home and high-tech sex selection methods, but more importantly, I discovered I wasn't alone. I was one among a legion of mothers who longed desperately for a daughter, keeping it a secret so others wouldn't think, wrongly, that we loved our sons less, and feeling guilty becuse we're not supposed to care if a baby's a boy or a girl, "as long as it's healthy". There were, of course, also mothers hoping just as much to add a son to their all-girl family.
After a lot of research and soul-searching, my husband I decided to try MicroSort. In the fall of 2000, I became pregnant on our first MicroSort attempt, by IUI. At 20 weeks of pregnancy, we discovered we were having twins, a boy and a girl! We were thrilled to have a daughter at last, and a new son to cherish too.
During my journey to conceive a daughter, I was so grateful for the support and information volunteered by others on the boards; mothers who didn't even know me, but were willing to help me, hope for me, and cry along with me, when there was no one I could turn to "in real life". I know that without being able to talk personally with women who had tried MicroSort, I would have never gone through with this daunting, complex procedure; and that we would have never had a daughter as part of our family.
Now that my journey's finished, this Web site is just my way of giving some of that help back, to you.