Oh BOY!!

With 7 pregnant friends in 2009, you'd think that the distribution of boy babies and girl babies would be pretty even. However, as time passes more and more of our friends are finding out that they are all having boys! We are the last couple to find out the sex of our baby. After 7 baby boys, we were certain that our baby is going to be a girl. I even had a dream about us having a baby girl. I was craving sweets like there's no tomorrow! So it was a complete shock when our 18-week ultrasound revealed a little body part! I was so surprised that I asked the Lab Tech if it could be an arm. She kindly highlighted the part for us with an arrow. :-)

So could it be possible that there are more baby boys born in the world than baby girls each year? Turns out that it is indeed true, that there are more boys born than girls. However, according to world census, there are in general more women than men. One popular theory is that although there are more male babies being born, they tend to die off sooner due to war, natural causes, and other factors that society will still end up with more women than men. So to compensate, nature produces more male babies than female babies.