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While most parents-to-be will say they just want a healthy child and don’t have a gender preference, at least one large survey of prospective parents says otherwise. Nearly 80% of the more than 10,000 parents surveyed worldwide said they did have a gender preference going in and throughout their pregnancies. And while their reasons for desiring a boy or a girl may have varied, their options did not. Other than some completely unscientific methods that are supposed to help you conceive a boy or a girl, having a child of either gender is a 50/50 proposition.
But what if there was a way to ensure you got the boy or girl you always wanted? In Thailand, there is. Continue reading »
Dutch researchers are reporting that they’re able to determine a fetus’s sex with 100% accuracy at five weeks using a maternal blood test. Previous tests had only be available for women several months into their pregnancies. The findings were reported this week in the publication Obstetrics and Gynecology.
Another day, another woman who apparently needs a lesson in how pregnancy works.
Keven Duffy blames a gender prediction test manufacturing company for the end of her marriage. They said she was having a boy – just like her husband wanted. Turns out, she was actually carrying a girl, and Duffy says the company’s at fault for the stress that led to divorce.
OK, she does realize she would have had a girl REGARDLESS of the test? Continue reading »
Who needs sonograms and that big needle stuck in your belly? A new at-home pregnancy test won’t tell you whether you’ve got a bun in there but who that bun is.
According the package, the new IntelliGender Gender Prediction Test will tell you at ten weeks if you’ll be bringing home a Susie or a Steve. So why are pro-lifers all up in arms about this one? Continue reading »
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