http://www.babygendertool.com/blog Science and fiction about baby gender predictor methods Wed, 03 Feb 2010 01:24:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.babygendertool.com/blog/index.php/2010/02/how-do-you-choose-the-best-stroller/ 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 ... http://www.babygendertool.com/blog/index.php/2010/01/baby-gender/ 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 ... http://www.babygendertool.com/blog/index.php/2008/11/uk-parents-queue-to-select-baby-gender/ 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 ... http://www.babygendertool.com/blog/index.php/2008/11/choosing-baby-gender-forbidden-in-singapore/ 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 ... http://www.babygendertool.com/blog/index.php/2008/11/find-baby-gender-using-dna-test/ 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 ... http://www.babygendertool.com/blog/index.php/2008/11/choosing-baby-gender-is-not-science-fiction-any-more/ 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 ... http://www.babygendertool.com/blog/index.php/2008/11/genome-decoding/ This is not really related to gender prediction but I just wanted to get it out there. If you live in California, on November 4th you will, hopefully, go and cast the vote on 11 propositions and for the president. Vote "No" on proposition 8. This proposition contains a constitutional ... http://www.babygendertool.com/blog/index.php/2008/10/california-proposition-8-yes-or-no/ This post is not really about gender prediction, but something I have read recently. According to a study published in Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, having fan on during sleep reduces risk of SIDS by 72 percent. That is a LARGE precentage. They interviewed parents whose babies died of SIDS ... http://www.babygendertool.com/blog/index.php/2008/10/fans-reduces-risk-of-sids/ Intersting piece of information I came across recently. Every fetus begins life as female. Crazy, isn't? I did not believe it myself, but after a quick research I came across enough scientific evidence confirming this fact. As I explained before, mother has two female chromosomes (XX), while father has one male ... http://www.babygendertool.com/blog/index.php/2008/09/every-fetus-begins-life-as-female/