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Would you choose your baby’s gender?
The very second your little one makes their first appearance in the world you know there’s not one thing that you’d change about them: gender, eye colour, hair colour, none of it is important just as long as your brand new little person is healthy and happy. What about if you’d had the choice…
Mindy Millar’s Baby Making Diaries: Blue is the colour
Drum roll please…it’s a….BOY!! So, not what we were banking on. Looks like the summer dress and hat will have to find another home. Of course, we are still delighted, but hubby and I have both had to rapidly adjust our mindsets. It didn’t come as a complete shock. In the week leading up to…
Posted in Guest Blogs Tagged blog, Boy, boy or girl, Case study, Diary, Gender, Mindy Miller's Blog, scan, sonographer Leave a comment
Finding out gender, pink or blue?
Ok, so I know I said finding out the gender of my unborn child wasn’t the most important thing right now, but I lied. I found myself up late, looking at pictures on the internet which show how the angle of ‘the nubbin’ indicate whether it’s a boy or a girl. Studying my scan images,…
Posted in Guest Blogs Tagged 3D/4D scans, blog, boy or girl, Case study, Diary, Gender, Mindy Miller Second Trimester, Mindy Miller's Blog, scan, Ultrasound Leave a comment
Gender stereotypes: Nature or nurture?
Do you forbid your daughter from playing with Barbies and insists that your son learns to cook from the age of two? And are these efforts to impose equality on your children doing any good at all? Sam Pope looks at gender stereotypes and asks can we really avoid them. Is it nature or nurture?…
Posted in Behaviour, Child Development Tagged behaviour, Boy, Child development, Gender, Gender differences, Girl, Language development, stereotypes, toys Leave a comment
Go Vegetarian For A Female Baby
Vegetarian mums are more likely to give birth to a girl, researchers have found. The claim is based on analysing nearly 6,000 pregnancies in Nottingham and the research team say the exciting results seem to be drawn from the mother’s diet. Pauline Hudson and Rosemary Buckley of Nottingham University studied nearly 6,000 pregnancies from 1998,…
Posted in Conception Tagged Boy, diet in pregnancy, Gender, Girl, Smoking, Vegetarian, vegetarian diet, Vegetarianism Leave a comment
Fantastic Father’s Day competition
Honourable mentions! Here is a selection of the dads who, although they didn’t win, we thought really deserved an honourable mention. Melanie Taylor nominated her man for his patience during the rollercoaster ride of difficult pregnancies and says he is her “Soulmate, best friend and one in a million husband”. Martin Grieb was nominated by his…
Posted in Fathers Day Tagged Claire Parrish, Divorce, Emily Smith, Family, Father, Father's Day, Gender, Jamie Rumsby, Jessica, Kerry Elliot, Kevin, Lewis Stuart David, Lydia, Martin Grieb, Megan, Melanie Taylor, Mike, Natasha, Nurse, Phil, Samantha Clevitt, Sarah Ramowski, Sophie, Stephen Davies, Stephen Evans, Steve Norman, Stuart Cope, Tony Clarke, William Leave a comment
Can you choose the sex of your child?
Can you really choose the sex of your child? Folklore holds that what mothers eat is the key to the sex of their child. Red meat and salty snacks are said to lead to boys while chocolate is thought to help to produce girls. Now science suggests the stories may be true: mice with low blood-sugar levels –…
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Sex selection should not be allowed
A snapshot survey has found that 80 per cent of people think that parents should not be allowed to choose their baby’s sex simply to balance their family. The study by Newcastle University showed that three quarters of those interviewed feared children could be turned into “consumer items”, and that sex selection could lead to choosing babies…
Posted in News Tagged Baby, Gender, HFEA, Human Fertility and Embryology Authority, News, News - Conception, Sex selection, surveys Leave a comment
Gender selection for babies
Couples who crave babies of a particular sex can now have their needs met by a new “sex-sorting” fertility method. But should parents really be able to pick their child’s sex? Over 300 couples, including one from the UK, think so, as they’ve successfully conceived via the technique. The method is called MicroSort and was…
Are you a hands on dad?
Fathers are playing a more active role in parenting than ever before, according to new research. Celebrity fathers such as Tony Blair, David Beckham and the Gallagher brothers are all making fatherhood high profile, researchers found. An independent NOP survey showed that over 50% of the men surveyed said they would like to be a hands on dad and would…
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