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Boy or Girl: Is there truth to natural gender selection during conception?

As youngsters in the past, we thought of how many children we'd like to have, two maybe three, governed perhaps by the number of kids we call siblings. We have our grandparents, who gave birth to nine girls, the 10th a boy, all in an attempt to acquire a gender different from their existing offspring.

This is, however, almost unheard of post 21st century. Aside from In-Vitro Fertilization and adoption where science has made it possible for potential parents to choose the desired gender, could there be some hint of truth behind natural gender selection?

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