How to Choose the Sex of Your Baby: Fully revised and updated

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Harmony/Rodale, Oct 10, 2006 - Health & Fitness - 256 pages
For almost forty years, How to Choose the Sex of Your Baby has been the standard reference for couples trying to increase their chances of having the son or daughter they hope for. In this new edition of their classic book, Dr. Shettles and David Rorvik provide authoritative scientific studies and compelling anecdotal evidence demonstrating that the Shettles method continues to produce results unmatched by any other method. Dozens of testimonials confirm its ease of use and rate of success.

How to Choose the Sex of Your Baby
explains the simple, at-home, noninvasive Shettles method and presents detailed steps to take to conceive a child of a specific gender. The properly applied Shettles method gives couples a 75 percent or better chance of having a child of the desired sex. Some researchers have reported success rates of up to 90 percent!

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Contents

Is It Possible? Is It Moral?
1
Can We Really Choose the Sex of Our Children? Yes
7
Is It Moral? Should We Do It? Will the World Be Overrun
13
Letters from Home and Our Results to Date
24
Hundreds of Years of Trial and Error Mostly Error
47
The Facts of Life Revisited What You Must Know
57
How It Developed
66
How Much Scientific Support Is There for
75
Trying for the BoyWhat to
150
Sex Selection in the Near and Distant Future
193
Most Popular Boy and Girl Names
202
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Write to Us
209
Bibliography
221
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229
Index
231

How Do They Compare?
90

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About the author (2006)

LANDRUM B. SHETTLES, M.D., Ph.D., was an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons and director of research at the New York Fertility Foundation. He is the coauthor of From Conception to Birth: The Drama of Life’s Beginnings.

DAVID RORVIK is a former Time magazine science and medicine reporter and has contributed articles to the New York Times Magazine, Harper’s, Reader’s Digest, and other magazines.

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