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Choosing The Sex Of Your Baby

Choosing The Sex Of Your Baby. Brooke Bartelt, Dustin Richards, Kirstie Shakal, & Kylie Shakal. Has sex selection always been around?. Past efforts in selecting the sex of the baby include: Tricks Special diets Certain sex positions Timing . Tricks. Italian men: biting their wife’s ear

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Choosing The Sex Of Your Baby

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  1. Choosing The Sex Of Your Baby Brooke Bartelt, Dustin Richards, Kirstie Shakal, & Kylie Shakal

  2. Has sex selection always been around? • Past efforts in selecting the sex of the baby include: • Tricks • Special diets • Certain sex positions • Timing

  3. Tricks • Italian men: biting their wife’s ear • Left ear: daughter • Right ear: son • Swedish men: hanging pants • Left bedpost: girl • Right bedpost: boy • German woodcutters: taking an ax to bed and chanting

  4. Special diets • To conceive a girl: • Eat plenty of highly acidic foods like grapefruit, oranges, lemons • Eat foods high in calcium and magnesium but low in salt and potassium • Theory: an acidic environment kills male-producing sperm, so female-producing sperm have a better chance of making it to the egg

  5. Special diets…(girl cont.) • Both partners should eat lots of fish and veggies • Eat sweets in general • Eat foods high in calcium • Include plenty of foods that are high in magnesium • Also, just by eating less food than if you wanted a boy

  6. Special Diets • To conceive a boy: • Eat more meat — the redder the better • Stick with salty snacks • Dads-to-be: drink soda, especially cola drinks • Foods rich in both potassium and sodium • In general, eat more food

  7. Sex Positions • If you want a boy: • Lie down after sex • Try rear entry position or standing • Focus on HIS pleasure • Give in to HIS seduction • Ladies, sleep to the left of your partner

  8. Sex Positions • If you want a girl: • Try the missionary position or make love with the woman on top. • Focus on HER pleasure • Ladies, take the lead DISCLAIMER: These are all old wives’ tales and should not be taken seriously. If you use this method to select your baby DO NOT come after us if it is wrong, we are just presenting the information.

  9. Timing • The shape of the moon and it’s size • The date (odd an even days)

  10. Sex Selection Methods: • Abortion • PGD (Prenatal Genetic Diagnosis) • IVF (In Vitro Fertilization) • Flow cytometry

  11. Abortion • China: • 10 million abortions induced each year • Son preference • The Chinese one-child policy enhanced this trend • Ultrasound scanning

  12. PGD (Prenatal Genetic Diagnosis) - In-vitro fertilization (IVF) (Required for PGD) - Laser cut at the zona pellucida - Cells are studied by embryologist - Embryos of the desired sex (and with no defects) are then implanted back into the mother

  13. PGD Facts and Concerns Facts: • Cost: IVF and PGD combine to roughly $13,000-17,000. • Success rate of pregnancy: 10-35% • Success of gender selection: 95-98% Concerns: • Unethical (Can select against different gene Combinations) • Religious (“Designer Baby”)

  14. Flow Cytometry • Y-Sperm swim faster than X-sperm • Separation of these sperm • Not foolproof: • 90% for girls • 75% for boys

  15. Reasons couples “choose to choose” the sex of their baby: • Sharla and Shane Miller • Power to choose • Extra time to prepare for baby’s arrival • Getting the gender you want in the desired order • Laura Diamond • Family balance • Economical planning • Items (clothes and toys) can be shared

  16. Reasons against sex selection • High cost • No guarantee • Gender inequity • Creating or reinforcing gender biases • “Messing” with Mother Nature

  17. If efforts in selecting the sex of the baby have always been a part of reproduction, then do medical advancements make these options morally wrong?

  18. WORKS CITED "Choosing your baby’s sex: The folk wisdom." Babycenter, L.L.C., Web. 4 Nov 2011. <http://citationmachine.net/index2.php?reqstyleid=1&mode=form&rsid=6&reqsrcid=MLAWebDocument&more=yes&nameCnt=1>. "Determine The Sex of Your Baby." Pregnancy Calendar: Week By Week Calendar With Photos and Videos. Web. 08 Nov. 2011. <http://www.pregnancy-calendars.net/determine_sex.aspx>. "Gender Selection 101." Gender Selection Pros and Cons. Gender Selection 101, 2009. Web. 8  Nov 2011. <http://genderselection101.com/gender-selection-pros-and-cons.html>. Kisken, Tom. "Boy or girl? Controversial methods take the mystery out of birth. " McClatchy- Tribune Business News  18 October 2011 ProQuest Newsstand, ProQuest. Web. 8 Nov. 2011. Leung, Rebecca. "Choose the Sex of Your Baby." CBSnews. CBS, 11 Feb 2009. Web. 8 Nov 2011. <http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/04/13/60II/main611618.shtml>. Naff, Clay Farris. Reproductive Technologies. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2007. Print. Van Balen, Frank. “The choice for sons or daughters.” Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics & Gynecology Dec. 2005: 229+. Academic Search Premier. Web. 2 Nov. 2011.

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