35: Chick-Pickin’ (with Nana)

May 29, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30Iret3L5_U

Nana is back in California! They’re discussing Meredith’s Day 5 4BB and Day 7 4BA embryos (better known at Chip & Dale); the nail-biting wait on genetic test results, whether or not to learn the sex, and if so, WHEN?

ARTICLES DISCUSSED

The Parents Who Want Daughters and Daughters Only, Emi Nietfeld for Slate

Survival of the Fetus: Why Males Have it So Rough, LIveScience

Female embryos less likely to survive to birth, University of Oxford

Embryo quality, ploidy, and transfer outcomes in male versus female blastocysts, National Institutes of Health

PLACES MENTIONED

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