It's a Girl in 2010!

Twenty-five seconds after midnight, the first American baby born into 2010 popped into the world in a single push.

Her name is Jezariah Fausto Duenas and her birthday will forever be celebrated with fireworks. This annual miracle is celebrated on Guam every January.
"But now there is the twist to the story, though," said the baby's father, Joe Duenas of Ordot. "It's my birthday, too."
Duenas was born on Jan. 1, 1978 and his daughter was born yesterday. He has enjoyed the global holiday and two reasons to celebrate every birthday of his life. Now his daughter will enjoy the same, Duenas said.
So, as the cycle of New Year's babies continued, the father and daughter watched each other in a Guam Memorial Hospital room yesterday, curious and smiling.
The baby wasn't due to be born until later this month, but her mother learned on Tuesday her daughter would arrive sooner than expected. Bernadette Fausto said she had misinterpreted contractions for back pain, but eventually realized the time had come.
"Mom was great! Only one push and the baby was out," e-mailed Dr. Thomas Shieh shortly after attending to the delivery. "All the nurses had Happy New Year's' hats on," the doctor wrote to the Pacific Daily News, with the consent of the new baby's parents.
Duenas and Fausto went to GMH at about 5 p.m. Thursday night. Seven hours later, they had a tiny, quiet, inquisitive baby girl.
"When I woke up this morning I said 'God, thank you. Thank you for blessing me again," Fausto said.
Duenas, 32 and Fausto, 31, have been together for 13 years. They live in Ordot and have one other child.
Jezariah was named after her 5-year-old brother -- Jeremiah Zion Fausto Duenas -- who foretold her birth in a drawing months before his mother knew she was pregnant.
While visiting his class one day last year, Duenas and Fausto found a drawing of their family with a tiny baby floating in the clouds.
"We said, 'Son, who is that baby up there?' And he said that was his sister who was coming," Duenas said.
About three months later, Fausto discovered she was pregnant. The boy was right.
As the baby grew, Jeremiah became more attached. He was there for the ultrasound and thought his sister was dancing. Every day before school, he would hug his mother's belly and wish his baby sister goodbye.


Fausto would remind Jeremiah that she didn't know if the baby was a boy or a girl. Jeremiah said he was certain.
He was right again.
Donations
The first baby born on Guam each year is showered with gifts from local businesses. Jezariah is no exception.
The "I Love Guam New Year Baby" project was started by Archway Inc. in 2005 and has grown significantly each year, according to a press release from the company.
"Every year, the number of contributors of this event gets larger and larger and they do it without any hesitation," said Archway Marketing Director Hank Rice. "At the end of the day, it is all about helping out and welcoming the first and newest American, born in the USA. No other state or territory in the (United States) can claim this"
Fausto said the donations would be a tremendous help raising her new child.
"Just having her here for the New Year's is a gift, and then to have people come in with gifits, it just makes it so much more blessed," Fausto said.

By Brett Kelman • Pacific Daily News bmkelman@guampdn.com • January 2, 2010

Gender Disappointment: When Parents Don't Get The Child They Wanted - ParentDish

by: Amy Hatch of parentdish.com

Parents wait with bated breath to learn the gender of their unborn baby -- and sometimes, the answer isn't what they wanted to hear. Gender disappointment is a real and often heartbreaking matter for mothers and fathers who had their hearts set on a boy or a girl.

We chatted about this in the office when our colleague, an AOL editor who's expecting his first child, admitted that had his heart set on a girl.

"Everybody in my family has girls," he tells us, preferring to remain anonymous. "I guess we need a boy in the family, but when the doctor told us we were having a boy, I was so disappointed."He says he knows he shouldn't be upset, and that as long as his son is healthy he'll be a happy dad, indeed. But that doesn't stop him from thinking about what could have been.

Joyce Venis is a psychiatric nurse in Princeton, N.J., who works with parents who have similar reactions. Gender disappointment is often dismissed or not discussed, she recently told MSNBC, because parents feel they will appear ungrateful.

Venis adds that it's not wrong for parents to hope for a specific gender, and it does not mean that they don't want the child. "They have the right to want the certain sex," she tells MSNBC. But if the problem is severe enough to cause symptoms of depression, parents should not be ashamed to seek the advice of a therapist.

In some cultures, gender disappointment takes on even greater import. In China, for example, where the government limits the number of children parents can have, boys are preferred because they continue the family line. In too many cases there, parents have been known to abandon or even kill their newborn baby girls.

Back in America, our colleague knows that he's lucky, and jokes about how his wife tells him to stop talking about having a girl in front of their unborn son.

"She really wanted a boy," he says. "She always tells me when I talk about it, 'The baby can hear you!'" He adds that one reason he wanted a little girl is so that he could see a "cute little version of his wife running around, but I'm still super excited either way."

Were you upset when you found out the gender of your baby, and how did you cope with those feelings of disappointment.




Gender Disappointment: When Parents Don't Get The Child They Wanted - ParentDish

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Puffy Paper Hearts

Have fun with the kids, making these fun Puffy Paper Hearts. Happy Valentine's Day!


Found this fun craft at: www.kaboose.com.

Diet to Choose Sex of Baby

Thinking of choosing sex of baby? You no longer have to wish you had a boy or pray you had a girl. Of course, above all, everyone wants a healthy baby. Parents are also entitled to a gender preference. Some couples with three boys, are planning their fourth and final child, and are really hoping for a little girl. Other couples have one girl, only plan on having two children, and would love to have a boy too. Gender selection is a personal, private, family decision that couples make every day.The Boy and Girl Diets have been designed for those parents that have a desire to conceive a baby boy or a baby girl.

Diet to Choose Sex of Baby

The Boy and Girl Diet plans at www.boygirldiet.com, are geared to help in choosing sex of baby and are centered on helping either the X or the Y chromosome to live and fertilize the egg. The female uterus is acidic in nature and scientific researches have found out that the X chromosome thrives in an acidic environment while an alkaline environment helps the Y chromosome to develop. But this does not mean that both chromosomes can still exist in either environment. Acid can cancel out the growth of the Y chromosome and the same happens in an alkaline environment where the X chromosome has to manage living in.


The Boy and Girl Gender Diets are deemed important, in gender selection, because the change it makes, inside the woman’s uterus, during the fertilization process is dependent on the food she eats. Each of the food she takes in has some substantial amount of nutrients which can either benefit or damage gender plans. The Boy and Girl Gender Diets have been created to help change the uterine environment to encourage fertilization of the appropriate chromosome necessary for either a boy or a girl.


Other Methods for Gender Selection

While diet has been widely accepted as a means of choosing sex of baby, there are also other clinical methods used for gender selection. One of them is IVF or In Vitro Fertilization. This process is facilitated through the use of fertility drugs which provide ovarian stimulation to produce more eggs for increased chances of fertilization. There’s also the process known as IUI or Intrauterine Insemination wherein the doctor directly inserts the sperm onto the egg to facilitate the fertilization process. This way, the sperm can already be pre-identified as containing either the X or Y chromosome. This is often paired with the dye technique wherein the X chromosome-bearing sperms are separated from the Y-bearing ones.


However, the downside with these other methods is that the procedure is not available or legal in all countries, the procedure may have to be repeated several times, process can be time consuming, very expensive and sometimes disappointing. Also, some couples are seeking a more natural approach, in lieu of artificial reproduction. Boygirldiet.com has all the needed information in choosing sex of baby. It also helps prepare and guide you in following the correct plan and procedure to getting the desired gender for your upcoming baby, naturally, through diet.

Family Fun: Thanksgiving Turkey Gourd Craft

At the first Thanksgiving, turkey was actually a side dish, taking second billing to venison. But set this pretty bird center table and it's guaranteed to steal the show.

CRAFT MATERIALS:

Gourd
Round toothpicks
Pumpkin
Red chili pepper
Orange rind
Cloves
Corn husks or tamale wrappers
Tempera paints
Pair of red gloves

Time needed: Under 1 Hour
1. To create the turkey's face, push a few toothpicks halfway into one side of the gourd, then attach it to the pumpkin by pushing the protruding toothpick ends through the pumpkin shell. Use the same method to attach the chili-pepper wattle.

2. For eyes, use two orange-rind circles. Push a clove through the center of each one and into the gourd.

3. Next, tint the corn husk feathers by dipping them into diluted tempera paints (2 parts water to 1 part paint) and attach them to the pumpkin with toothpicks.

4. Set the completed pumpkin atop the red gloves so that the fingers resemble turkey feet.

Thanks Familyfun.com, for this holiday craft!

How to Conceive a Planned Baby Boy

Scientific studies have continuously proven that diet, prior to conception, can influence the baby's gender. Many parents wonder, how can I conceive a baby boy through diet? There are important things that must be considered first and these facts are certainly worth the effort.

How to Conceive a Boy Baby – The Scientific Background

The first thing you need to know is how is gender determined? To do this you must begin with the root of the baby's development: the fertilization process. The union of the father's sperm and the mother's egg is what starts off that option to conceive a baby boy or a baby girl. At the heart of it all are the interplay of chromosomes X and Y. The female's egg is generally composed of the X chromosomes, while it is the male sperm that can either have the Y chromosome or the X chromosome in it. But the sad thing is that the Y chromosome, though faster in speed, is ironically weaker in resisting challenging environments than the X chromosome.

Y chromosomes can get immediately washed off in the vaginal area of the mother or if they luckily make it to the mother's egg, the acidity levels of the womb can completely destroy them. So even if they have already reached the egg and embedded themselves into it, their development may be halted by acidic levels and once they are destroyed, the X chromosomes found on the egg's make up will takeover and therefore conceive a baby girl.

The Next Steps on How to Conceive a Boy

Because the development of the Y chromosome is usually set off on more sensitive grounds due to acid levels, it is important that a soon to be expecting mom change her pH level and control it to set favorable conditions for a baby boy. The Boy Diet includes foods rich in alkaline because this helps tone down acid levels and notably alkaline also provides a favorable environment to let the Y chromosome develop.

With the pH level in place, you will now have to begin sorting your food groups. The challenge of how to conceive a boy actually depends with you eating all the foods, outlined in the Boy Diet plan, especially during the first three months before conception. This is also the reason why those who wanted to plan the sex of their child must do so beforehand and not during the pregnancy itself. Once you begin with the Boy Diet, you will be consuming more potassium and calcium-rich foods and will take mineral rich supplements to increase your chances of conceiving a baby boy.