Baby Gender Predictor

Chinese Gender Predictor

Agata Luigia — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 00:51:41 +0000

This interesting gender prediction method uses a lunar calendar followed by Chinese. This calendar works by taking the mother’s birth date and the conception day, and it figures out the gender of the baby. There are charts available on the Internet, but it’s easier to use a calculator to automatically figure out baby’s gender. Check it out here Chinese Birth Chart.

Enjoy!

Kids Photography in Los Angeles

Agata Luigia — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 21:57:11 +0000

I took my children yesterday to take some pictures. I met Lana and she is a great photographer, check out her site at Los Angeles kids photography. She is great with kids, and has an eye for excellent pictures.

She also has a blog with lots of samples of photo sessions. Los Angeles Children Photography Blog.

Highly recommended!

Chinese Birth Chart

Agata Luigia — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 01:29:24 +0000

I have come across an interesting method of predicting baby gender. It uses some sort of lunar calendar practiced by Chinese. I have seen a few charts, so for the ease of use I added a calculator to the site to automatically figure out the gender using these charts. Check it out here Chinese Birth Chart.

Enjoy!

How do you choose the best stroller

Agata Luigia — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 01:24:33 +0000

It’s been a year since my baby girl was born. But I remember how long it took me to choose a stroller. I spent countless hours in ToysRus, trying different models. But, at the end, playing with strollers in a store is not enough. Until you get one on the road, you won’t find out all the little quirks that can make the stroller undesirable. That’s where you should consult reviews of your fellow parents. Sites like Amazon and ToysRus have plenty of reviews from people who own strollers. This stroller reviews site seems to aggregate lots of reviews in one place and allows you to sort strollers by number of reviews. It’s important to look at how many reviews a particular product received, not at the number of stars. A stroller that has 400 4 star-reviews is better than the one with two five-star reviews. For example, check out reviews for Bugaboo Frog, pretty nice, eh? It’s expensive but probably worth it.

Anyways, don’t settile for the first stroller that looks good. Remember, you will keep it for years.

Baby gender

Agata Luigia — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 21:21:42 +0000

Do you really want to know your unborn baby’s gender?

Some parent choose not to know – good for them. Personally, I’d like to know as soon as possible. It doesn’t really matter if it’s a boy or a girl, but I just need to know.

Even better, I’d like to find out baby’s gender as soon as I know that I’m pregnant. Baby gender predictor can tell the baby gender, although it’s not precise but it’s better than nothing. It can even tell you when to get pregnant if you really want a boy (or a girl).

UK Parents Queue to select baby gender

Agata Luigia — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 23:53:53 +0000

Apparently gender selection is popular in UK. Parents in UK line up to select gender of their future babies. The practice is illegal in UK and most of Europe, but legal in other countries like US and Russia. People pay between £7,000 and £17,000 to get this treatment. Crazy, if you ask me. Here’s the kink to BBC article

Choosing Baby Gender forbidden in Singapore

Agata Luigia — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:18:51 +0000

Singapore, and many other Asian contries, forbid gender selection using scientific methods, unless there are exceptional conditions, such as health risks based on gender. Link

I think it is a good thing. As I said before choosing baby gender would lead to disasters to humanity in the future. The gender balanace established by nature should not be messed with.

Find Baby Gender using DNA test

Agata Luigia — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:12:22 +0000

According to this press release, a company called Consumer Genetics has a kit that can determine baby gender after 7 weeks. It involves taking your own blood by poking a finger and sending it to the lab. For a cool $200 you can have the results back in 3 to 5 business days. And they offer money back guarantee if they are wrong.

My question is, why would you want to spend $200 if you can wait another 10 weeks and get an ultrasound for free (well, paid by your medical insurance)? Seriously, if poking your finger with sharp objects and squizing out blood sounds like fun to you, do it. Otherwise, wait for the ultrasound.

Our society is getting increasingly impatient. Fast food, fast diets, fast, fast, fast… Take a deep breath and wait for the ultrasound.

Choosing Baby Gender is not science fiction any more

Agata Luigia — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 22:12:05 +0000

Guess what? You can now choose the gender of your baby before conception using a controversial practices employed by some US clinics using IVF. David and Victoria Beckham are doing it link.

There are many things wrong with this. And the most important is that it will lead to a dislocation of the natural balance between genders. 70% of families would like their first child to be a girl (see article above). What would all these girls do when they grow up and face with the shortage of boys to date, marry and have kids with?

This practice should be illegal not for ideological or religious reasons, but for practical. For the sake of maintaining the balance between men and women, we should not allow selection of baby gender.

Genome Decoding

Agata Luigia — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 05:55:30 +0000

Finally scientists decoded a full human genome of a woman with cancer. And they found out that there are 8 new genes that have not been seen before. Unfortunatly these genes do not match genes taking from tumors of other people which suggests that cancer is a complicated matter and can occur from many different mutations. Does not sound promising for creating effective cancer treatments. However, scientists said that with enough samples (genome sequences) they might be able to find the earliest signs of mutations and produce drugs that stop those mutations before they develop into abnormal cells.

This is not really related to gender prediction, but genes and genome sequencing was always interesting to me. Genes describes a living organizm and the ability to understand and even manipulate them opens up incredible opportunities for good and evil applications.

Link to the article