http://www.babygendertool.com/blog Science and fiction about baby gender predictor methods Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:18:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.babygendertool.com/blog/index.php/2008/09/every-fetus-begins-life-as-female/ Let's talk a little about something else rather than gender prediction. The ratio between available, heterosexual boys and girls. I'd like to emphasize "heterosexual" because I'm mainly focused on procreation. And to all homosexuals who call the rest "breeders" I would like to say one thing: if not for heterosexuals you ... http://www.babygendertool.com/blog/index.php/2008/09/gender-ratio/ Can expectant mothers use their intuition to find out baby's gender? According to a study conducted by Dr. Shamas and University of Arizona, mothers guess the correct gender 70% of the time. Not exactly reliable method considering the worst they can do is 50%. Quote:MOTHER KNOWS BEST: Expectant mothers can ... http://www.babygendertool.com/blog/index.php/2008/08/using-intuition-for-gender-prediction/ Interesting fact, according to web page hosted by students at Harvard University, one of the sites that's blocked in Saudi Arabia is online gender predictor. Why? I can only speculate. In some cultures babies of one gender (for example boys) are preferred over the opposite gender. http://www.babygendertool.com/blog/index.php/2008/08/gender-prediction-blocked-in-saudi-arabia/