{"id":30290,"date":"2018-08-21T11:15:59","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T16:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/?p=30290"},"modified":"2018-08-21T11:15:59","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T16:15:59","slug":"how-to-choose-the-sex-of-your-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/21\/how-to-choose-the-sex-of-your-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"How to choose the sex of your baby."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In order to make such a momentous decision, I insist that you learn the very interesting evolutionary biology behind it.<\/p>\n<p>Start with this paragraph:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But for modern medical science, a baby\u2019s sex would remain unknown until birth. But many mothers today know long beforehand whether a baby will be male or female. Routine ultrasound scans reveal fetal genitals a third of the way through pregnancy, and genetic tests identify sex even earlier. Yet basic questions remain. Is a baby\u2019s sex like coin tossing, or can the male:female ratio be skewed? If sex bias occurs, does it happen through sperm sorting before fertilization or mortality differences in the womb after conception?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Then, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/intl\/blog\/how-we-do-it\/201808\/boy-or-girl-couples-trying-load-the-dice\">CLICK HERE<\/a> to read the rest of the story, by Robert Martin, expert on such things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In order to make such a momentous decision, I insist that you learn the very interesting evolutionary biology behind it. Start with this paragraph: But for modern medical science, a baby\u2019s sex would remain unknown until birth. But many mothers today know long beforehand whether a baby will be male or female. Routine ultrasound scans &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/21\/how-to-choose-the-sex-of-your-baby\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How to choose the sex of your baby.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5022],"tags":[5516,18,5517,4060,572],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/determin_sex_of_baby_greg_laden_blog.png?fit=384%2C149&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-7Sy","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30290"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30292,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30290\/revisions\/30292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}