Patient's question:
I have a friend who has been married for many years but has not been able to get pregnant. Since there is only one son in the family, they decided to undergo in vitro fertilization to continue the family line. Recently, they went to the hospital for this procedure. Can blastocysts reveal the gender of the baby?Doctor's answer:
The blastocyst cannot determine the gender. In our country, it is prohibited for any unit or individual to organize or implement non-medical fetal gender identification or selective artificial termination of pregnancy based on gender. Ultrasound gender determination requires the pregnant woman to be at least 19 weeks pregnant. However, even the most experienced imaging experts can only identify the baby's gender after 15 or 16 weeks of pregnancy, and the accuracy cannot reach 100%. But it is the safest method.