Articles on Pregnacy

Trying to discover the sex of the child before birth or to increase chances of conceiving a boy or a girl is still closely studied by researchers and specialists. There are lots of ways, more or less scientifically proven to help many prospective parents who are eager to have the baby of a specific sex. The odds of having a child with the gender of your desire is a kind of wheel of fortune combined with a little help from science. If up until now, the child’s sex was the will of fate, the evolution of science has made it easier for parents to have a say in the situation.

Let’s take it from the beginning: you just found out you are pregnant and, aside from tons of happiness, a lot of questions must be coming to mind right now, especially if you are a first-time mom. The first two weeks are very exciting and a mystical period for most women. Most women begin to eagerly calculate their pregnancy week by week, from the moment they decide to become mothers. During the first weeks and since the moment you walk through experience to create extraordinary life, a life event that irreversibly alters the life of any woman.

Check out our articles on pregnancy that will help you get thought the anxiety of waiting for you child. We know that 9 months of waiting is a long time, so why not spend this time documenting and reading about how to have the ideal pregnancy and the healthiest boy… or girl.

Are you ready to be a parent? – Part II

It is surely a question that can start many disputes and doubts, but it is a needed question in order to evaluate one’s ability to become a parent. Of course, one can never truly feel what it means to be a parent than when faced the actual situation. There are indeed many books that say to prepare parents, but no one can actually be fully prepared. There will always be unexpected situations. The demands of being a parent

Are You Ready to Become a Parent? – Part I

In some cases, many parents don’t get to ask themselves this question, as pregnancy comes when they are unprepared. But along the way, each person learns how to become a parent and gets in the job pretty well. And there is actually no way to become completely prepared for it, even though there are many books, many websites dedicated to future parents and many researches. Being a parent is the hardest job someone has in their life, without

Chinese Gender Calendar

A Chinese scientist discovered some data buried 700 years ago inside a tomb in China, near Peking. The data has been converted into a calendar and it is used in these modern days as a prediction to show people whether they will have a boy or a girl, according to their age of conception and the month. The ancient calculator used ancient data to determine the gender of the baby. Many parents decide to wait until their baby

How Genes Determine Gender | Baby’s sex

A baby’s sex is determined at conception (when the sperm fertilizes the ovum), but at first both female and male embryos develop in exactly the same way and they have identical genital parts until around the eighth week of gestation, when males and females start to develop in different ways. There is an unexpectedly small number or genes that determine the differentiation male/female:  in the nucleus of every cell of our body there are 46 chromosomes, organized

Old Wive`s Tales About Conceiving a Boy or a Girl | Gender of the baby

Whenever a woman gets pregnant, the first question that generally pops to mind is “Am I going to have a boy or a girl”?”In some cases, parent would like to keep the gender of the fetus as a surprise, while other believe it is important to know this is advance so they can make future plans, like which baby clothes to buy or what should the baby’s room look like. Whatever the case, some “old wives’ tales” or

Medical Methods for Determining the Gender

To determine the gender of the fetus, the age and the health condition, ultrasounds are commonly used. The machine allows the doctor to see how the baby has developed and to measure the baby. Data on the measurements for various gestational ages allow the machine to establish the baby’s age. The ultrasound technician can locate and then recognize either the labia or the penis, as it is the case, on the ultrasound. For a better determination of the