The following sites claim to be "natural" or "scientific" methods of human baby gender selection. None has proof of its program's viability in the form of a legitimate double-blind control study published in peer reviewed scientific literature.
All claim very high success rates and charge anywhere from $18-$300 for their "service." Any luck parents have had with them is entirely coincidental; these sites rely on anecdotal evidence and the naivete and ignorance of the general public. They are lying outright and profiting from it.
Here are the offenders:
Http://www.babychoice.com
http://www.rightbaby.com
http://www.babygenderselection.com
http://www.BabyChoice.info
http://www.selnas.com
http://www.bebe-choix.com
http://www.genderlabs.com
http://www.planbaby.com
http://www.usmev.com.Au/
http://www.smartstork.com
http://www.4-gender-selection.com
http://www.wealth-and-success-thru-astrology.com/nf/sv.htm
http://www.fertilityguide.co.uk/
http://www.usmev.com.Au/cji.htm
http://wannamakeababy.com/
http://www.selectgender.com/
http://www.mpbm.com/
http://www.planningbaby. 20m.com/
http://www.choosethesexofyourbaby.com/
http://www.dreamheartbaby.com/
Now, read what the legitimate medical and scientific communities have to say about human gender selection (I have other resources as well, if you're interested):
First, let me tell you that I know of no reliable "natural" method of sex selection. Considering that the sex of a child is determined by only one of the 100 million-plus sperm that start swimming toward an egg after ejaculation, you can see why no diet, activity or orgasm (or not) could influence whether a sperm carrying an X chromosome for a girl, or a Y for a boy, will fertilize the egg (or eggs).
Although both men cite long lists of evidence that they say support their theories, the medical establishment has long dismissed methods of sex selection as so much hocus-pocus. It is an attitude that extends beyond just Shettles and Ericsson, to include a universe of offerings — the half-dozen other how-to books currently listed on amazon.com; the many money-back guarantees available on the Internet; the ancient Chinese birth calendar, which legend says has been buried in a tomb outside Beijing for 700 years. (By its reckoning, I should have had two girls.)
"They don't work, nothing works, " says Dr. Alan DeCherney, chairman of the department of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of California at Los Angeles and editor of the medical journal Fertility and Sterility.
Keith
Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
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