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Would You Want to Know?

Married couples these days having their first baby are faced with choices that simply didn’t exist years ago. Once upon a time when a woman announced she was pregnant, everybody had an opinion as to whether the baby was a boy or a girl. Old wives tales abounded about how to tell the sex of the baby. They included dangling a coin over the pregnant woman’s tummy and seeing which way it moved. That was just one of the myriad old wives tales my extended family came up with. But then, they had an endless supply of old wives tales … Continue reading →

Do You Want a Boy or a Girl?

With reproductive technology, parents can now in fact choose the sex of their baby. While I’ve heard of some doing this. . .most people just take their statistical chances which are pretty good! You have a 50% chance of getting the exact gender you want! However, the advent of reproductive technology did not start parents on thinking about having a specific gender. There have always been ”scientifically proven” methods of conceiving the gender of your choice. (And by scientifically proven here, I mean that people still had a 50/50 chance of their method working!) If you can afford reproductive technology … Continue reading →