I am not a perfect person by any means. I have weaknesses, and I know what they are! One of said weaknesses being: I get frustrated by said people number one, number two when I chose to get pregnant I wanted to learn all that I could about all of it. And even though I am not a doctor and don't know everything I do consider myself to know more than most about certain aspects of the pregnancy process. I have taken a bizillion anatomy and physiology classes over the years and even more biology classes,and for my short time as an infertile women I read a lot about overcoming it and then for whatever reason I pick up on the weirdest factoids.
My sister-in-law whom is also pregnant found out last weekend that she is having a girl. She hails from a family that is all girls, she has 3 sisters and no brothers. So she says on my facebook the other day something to the effect that it is her genes that made them have a girl. But in this overabundance of silly knowledge I know that it is the male's sperm that determines the sex of children. There are boy sperm and girl sperm (i.e. each sperm carries either the chromosomes to be a girl or to be a boy). Boy and girl sperm are different in that Boy sperm swim faster than girl sperm but die really quickly. Girl sperm swims slower but live longer than boy sperm. So as scientists have discovered the more intercourse a couple have the greater their chances of having a boy, because they are frequently refreshing her body with more fast swimming, quick dying little boy sperm. And the less often a couple have intercourse at the women's most fertile time the more likely they are to have a girl. Either way...it's a long swim for them, taking sometimes days to make it to the center of the egg to fertilize it. I picture a little freeway that the sperm swim along, at first the boy sperm pass all the girl sperm, but then as time goes by the girl sperm catch up as all the boy sperm are crashed and are dead along the side of the freeway.
It's really silly, but it's really bothering me...she didn't pick the sex, his sperm did! My husband tells me to let it go, that to tell/educate her would be arrogant! But this is one of my weaknesses!
*This is completely un-scientific but maybe the fathers that have all sons don't make as many or any girl sperm and if they have all daughters then maybe they don't make boy sperm.
And as I can see from reading this...I really need to stop reading books and get the heck out of the house!!!!
I like the idea of the freeway with the little sperms passing each other. Before I was married I pretty much just left the thought of sperm alone, but now that I want a baby I think of sperm rather affectionately (notice the diminutive "little sperms").
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I have taken a lot of science classes, in doing so you can't be shy about terminology. You get tested on words that may be uncomfortable to say, what are you supposed to do fail? lol. In anatomy and Physiology classes you spend atleast a week learning more than you would ever want to know about each of the sex's. I once had a test on the chemical make-up of semen, and where each chemical/fluid was manufactered. Also on the test was a blank diagram of the male genitalia and we had to label each part and what took place there. It sounds so inappropriate, but once again it's for a grade!
ReplyDeleteWhen I escape I have a scrub top to return (I was overcharged) I have some library books to return, a check to cash, the dress I wore to church Sunday no longer fits (as I heard the seams tearing as I bent over that day) so I need to go church and cruise dress shopping. After Friday I should know the gender of the baby in my belly, so I can officially start hitting thrift stores in search of boy or girl clothing. I was at a used baby store recently that had a bunch of little baby boy hawaiian shirts, I thought they were so adorable. But then if I am carrying a girl I would love to buy about a zillion little dresses for her to wear or me to look at.