When I was just a teenager, my father informed me of a fact that I still carry with me to this day: since he was the only one of his siblings to immigrate to Canada from Italy, and that I am his only son (I have two sisters), that it was my responsibility to have [...]

I first heard this “myth” from my midwife while expecting one of my children. The heart rate was 155 beats per minute and she accurately predicted I was having a female child.
Being the curious type, I asked her for more information. If the heart rate is over 145 beats per minute she [...]

last week, we covered the recent studies from UK universities that claim diet affects babies gender. In a nutshell, the studies report that high-calorie diets seemed to produce boys, and lower calorie diets produce girls.
Louise Silverton, Deputy General Secretary of The Royal College of Midwives in the United Kingdom, warns women trying to conceive that [...]

During each of my many pregnancies, I spent a great time checking out gender prediction methods. Actually, more than not, many people were happy to offer their tried and true methods of prediction to me, especially when they found out I was pregnant again after having 4 girls.
Would our next child be male or [...]

When it comes to mortality rates among newborn babies, it seems that gender has a lot to do with it.
A recent study shows that baby boys are more likely to die than baby girls in industrialized countries like Europe, Canada, the United States, Japan and Australia. In 1970s, boys had about a 30 percent higher [...]

It’s the first question everyone asks pregnant women, to the point most expectant mamas consider getting a t-shirt printed with “boy”, “girl” or “don’t know” on the bump.
Kudos to all the mamas who have the patience to wait and get a surprise, but most of us want to know straight away if it’s a boy [...]

My husband and I had a little girl’s name picked out even before we were married. The other day, my husband asked how set I was on that name, and tossed out another option.
I like both equally, so I may leave the decision to him. If we have a boy, though, we’ll have a problem.
We’ve [...]

Call me shallow, but before I got pregnant I wanted a baby, but really I wanted a girl. I wanted to buy her pink dresses, and Barbie dolls, take her shopping and braid her hair.
I’m a girl, I understand girls, my whole family was female, except my Dad who was good-natured and totally outnumbered, we [...]

With my first pregnancy I was determined to keep the gender of the baby a secret from everyone, including me. I believed that not knowing whether I was having a boy or a girl would somehow compel me to push a little harder when the time came for labor. I don’t know if [...]

So we’ve finally gotten all of our Christmas decorations packed away and managed to stuff the last of our used wrapping paper and gift boxes into the recycle bin. But there’s no time to relax, because no sooner has the holiday season ended than birthday season has arrived. My son turns 4 in two weeks, [...]