What's In a Name
I found a website with the top Baby Names for 2007. This is just fun to look at and look through.
Recipe for a Boy
So many people have an idea of whether they would prefer to have a boy or girl when talking about having a baby. Searchers have found that you can increase your chances for having a boy by simply changing your breakfast habits.
Women who eat a breakfast made of high-energy foods dramatically increase their odds of getting pregnant with a boy. Fiona Mathews, of the University of Exeter, said eating high-calorie breakfasts seemed to be the best guarantee of influencing the gender of a baby in favor of boys before conception.
The discovery of a link between calories and gender may explain why it is that in the past 40 years there has been a small but steady decline in the proportion of boys born in the developed world.
Up to 59% of women who get pregnant after eating high-energy breakfasts end up giving birth to a son. Researchers have found only 43% of women who always skipped breakfast before conceiving managed to produce boys.
So if you are interested in trying to conceive a boy, let me suggest you stick to your "Wheaties".
Baby Born Years After Father's Death
On March 12, 2008 Jamie-Rose Roberts was born. The unsuspecting newborn had no idea how special she really is.
Lisa and James Roberts had dreams of a large family. They had already had a son, Cameron, when James found out that he had cancer. In an attempt to create their large family, James and Lisa decided to freeze James' sperm before he would undergo chemotherapy.
Despite the treatment, the cancer spread and James died in October 2004.
Over the next few years, Lisa thought about the frozen sperm, but couldn't bare having a child without James. Then in February 2007, Lisa was ready for their second child.
Lisa had an egg retrieval which only produced two (2) eggs. James' sperm where injected into the eggs and the wait started. By the next day, there was only one (1) embryo and it was not of good quality. Lisa was given a 20% chance of getting pregnant with the embryo.
The embryo transfer was successful and Lisa had an uncomplicated, normal pregnancy.
When Jamie was born, Lisa says "She was the image of her father." Cameron suggested that his sister be named after their late father. Thus Jamie-Rose is cared for and loved by her mother, brother and watched over by her father.
This is such a warm, feel-good story. I wanted to share it with you.
