Very interesting study on the correlation between baby boys born through IVF
(Sept. 28) — Test-tube babies are more likely to be boys, according to a new study.
Researchers at the University of New South Wales reviewed the records of approximately 13,400 babies born in Australia and New Zealand since 2006 whose parents used in vitro fertilization and found that 56.1 percent of the children were boys.
“When you convert that to sex ratio at birth, that’s around 128 boys to 100 girls — that’s quite significant,” Jishan Dean, a doctoral student who participated in the research, told the Australian Associated Press.
The study, published in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, does not offer an explanation as to why in vitro fertilization, or IVF, seems to increase the odds of having a boy.
As of 2006, an estimated 3 million children had been born with the assistance of IVF since Louise Brown became the world’s first so-called test-tube baby in 1978.
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