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One of the most common questions that people ask an expectant couple is
“What are you having?” Of course, no one is truly questioning whether the
couple in question is having a toaster or a meerkat. They know that they are
having a baby. What people are really asking is whether the baby is a boy or
a girl. In the earliest days of pregnancy, there is really no way of
telling, though there are those who claim that it is possible to determine
and control the sex of your baby by controlling the conditions when you
become pregnant. Some do seem to have some scientific backing, while others
are nothing more than superstitious wife’s tales
One popular yet unscientific gender predictor is the Chinese gender
calendar. This chart uses general astrological principles to determine
whether your child will be a boy or a girl. Using the age that you were when
you became pregnant, and the month in which your child will be born, this
chart claims to be able to accurately predict the sex of your child at least
50% of the time. Which makes sense, given that there are only 2 possible
outcomes to any pregnancy. This chart does have its fallibility though; in
that it makes no accommodation for those that will go on to give birth to
boy/girl twins.
Another method of gender selection deals with timing conception just right.
Known as the Shettles Method, this theory operates based upon the knowledge
that the sperm which fertilizes the egg is what determines whether a baby
will be a boy or a girl. All eggs possess only the X chromosome. Each sperm
is either an X or a Y. Depending upon which kind of sperm reaches the egg,
the resulting child will be either XX, a girl or XY, a boy. The Shettles
Method hypothesizes that Y chromosome sperm are faster swimmers but are more
fragile and will have their greatest success on the days of ovulation, as
conditions are most favorable. Some people claim that this has been
effective for them, though it is hard to really pin point a successful
pregnancy on a method such as this.
There are other, much more high tech methods of choosing what gender your
child will be, though many people have strong ethical and moral objections
to them. Many people feel that pregnancy is a natural state and that man has
no place deciding things such as gender. For more information about gender
selection, please visit
Your-Baby-Boy.com today.
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