America's First Baby Of 2011- It's a Girl!

Cathy Narciso, 28, from Dededo, was diagnosed with polycystic ovarian syndrome, a common hormonal disorder among women of reproductive age.

A doctor told her it would have been difficult for her to have children. But Narciso, a staff nurse at Guam Memorial Hospital, hoped and prayed she would be a mom one day. She became a mother on New Year's Day. Eighteen seconds after midnight Narciso gave the final push making her son, Peter Gabriel Imson, the first baby to be born in America in 2011. Imson left the womb crying and opened his eyes immediately, said Dr. Thomas Shieh, the obstetrician who delivered the healthy baby boy.Imson weighs 6 pounds and 13 ounces and is 18.5 inches tall, Shieh said. Imson is also an early birthday present for his mother, who turns 29 on Jan. 8. "I wasn't expecting it," Narciso said of hospital officials telling her that Imson is the first baby born in America this year. "I didn't know what came with it."

Lots came with it. Since 2005, the "I Love Guam New Year Baby" project started by Archway Inc. has been showering the first baby born on Guam with gifts from local businesses valued at thousands of dollars. Imson got the same treatment yesterday at Guam Memorial Hospital. Around 2 p.m., about $7,000 worth of gifts were rolled into Imson's room. Savings bonds, diapers and a car safety seat were just a few of the items. Hank Rice, sales and marketing director at Archway Inc., said the previous year isn't over until the gifts are delivered to the firstborn for the new year.
"We are hoping this will be a way to promote Guam," Rice said. "This is the first baby born in the United States of America. No other place can claim that right. This is spotlighting Guam." Rice said despite the shortfalls in the economy, Guamanians still gave donations to make this happen for the newborn. "It's always positive," Rice said. Shieh said Narciso's story is one of hope and faith. "As a doctor, every baby is precious and I do my best to take care of the mother and the baby at the same time, and we all realize that medicine is not perfect and doctors really are just God's helpers," Shieh said. "So I agree with mom, it takes hope, faith and, yes, lots of prayers." Narciso said, as a first-time mother, she was appreciative of Shieh and the GMH staff, especially Staff Nurse II Joanne Camemo, at the Labor and Delivery ward. "I am really grateful. I guess I am really fortunate," Narciso said. "Not only having the babies but the extras. He came with a bundle. He's a lucky baby. I am a lucky mom, too."

SOURCE: America's first baby of 2011
By Laura Matthews • Pacific Sunday News • January 2, 2011

Kindergarten Fashion

Kindergarten Fashion
Did children always wear gender-specific clothing?
By Brian Palmer


Angelina Jolie, whose daughter Shiloh has often been photographed wearing "boys' " clothes like ties, jackets, and porkpie hats, defended her 4-year-old's fashion preferences in an interview with Reuters on Saturday. Did boys and girls always wear gender-specific clothing?

No. For most of U.S. history, nearly all infants, regardless of gender, wore dresses. Only in the 20th century did sex-specific clothing come into fashion: Boys started wearing pants, while girls continued to wear dresses. There was a second unisex period in the 1970s, with many catalogs from that decade presenting boys and girls in identical-looking pants. This trend was part of a larger movement to de-emphasize gender roles: On the popular 1972 children's album, Free to Be ... You and Me, for example, two babies try to figure out their gender, and a poem called "Don't Dress Your Cat in an Apron" reminds listeners, "a person should wear what he wants to, and not just what other folks say." The movement was relatively short-lived, however, as 1980s designers encouraged parents to outfit their girls in frills and dresses once again.

Parents used to clothe their male infants in dresses because pants symbolized an accession to manhood. The day a young boy received his first pair of pants—an event known as "breeching" to early Americans—was a seminal moment in his life. This sartorial bar mitzvah usually occurred between ages 4 and 7 for 17th-century lads. Boys made the switch to pants younger and younger until the early 20th century, when they stopped wearing dresses altogether. G. Stanley Hall, one of the fathers of American psychology, published a series of articles around that time arguing that gender distinctions were a hallmark of modern Western society. In his view, parents had an obligation to teach their children gender roles. (Prior to Hall, gender-appropriate behavior was assumed to come naturally.) The theory trickled down to ordinary parenting magazines, which started advising readers in the early 1900s to dress their male toddlers in pants to help them identify with their fathers. Hall's research notwithstanding, many dress-wearing babies of the time, like Ernest Hemingway and Ronald Reagan, grew up to be plenty manly.

Just as boys were once clothed in dresses, they were also once swaddled in pink. Historically, in many European countries, pink was the dominant color for boys, and blue—the official hue of the Virgin Mary—was the popular girls' color. In 1927, Time magazine found that American color conventions were completely unsettled, with six of 10 retailing giants, including Marshall Field's and Filene's, using pink as the dominant color for baby-boy accoutrements. It took two or three more decades for the modern convention to establish a firm hold on U.S. nurseries.

For what it's worth, Shiloh Jolie-Pitt may be at the leading edge of a backlash. Despite an uninterrupted quarter-century of lacy dresses and flowered pink headbands, observers of high-end children's clothing designers detect a trend back toward gender-neutral clothes.

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Boygirldiet.com thanks Brian Palmer article, slate.com, Linda Baumgarten of Colonial Williamsburg, Jo Paoletti of the University of Maryland and author of the forthcoming book Pink and Blue: Telling the Boys from the Girls in America, and Kelly Richardson of the Sage Collection at Indiana University

Baby Gender Selection – How to Have a Baby Girl with the Right Diet

While most parents would simply accept the fact that there isn't really anything much they could do to control the outcome of their baby's gender, there are parents out there who would do almost everything just to influence the gender of their new baby.

It may be a common agenda for a larger percentage of fathers to look forward to raising a baby boy and then see him grow up to be just like his dad. However, on the contrary many mothers are so eager to find out that what they have inside them is a cute and tiny baby girl.

Well, here's the good news to every parent who wanted so badly to conceive a baby girl, you could influence your baby's gender and you can do it in some very natural ways.
Out of all the methods being presented elsewhere regarding baby gender selection, controlling baby gender by means of adjusting your diet is one to the most healthy and natural methods to do so.

Studies show that a high-fat diet produces certain hormonal changes in the feminine reproductive system. This strongly suggests that what you eat would greatly influence your baby's gender.

So, if you have that strong desire for a baby girl, your suggested diet would be rich in calcium and magnesium. Specific examples of food rich in calcium and magnesium are dairy products, eggs, ice cream, cereals, rice, pasta, fresh fruits - particularly grapefruit, apples, and carrots. Remember, you must stay away from salty foods, instead keep a low salt or salt free diet.

It is important to understand that for this method to be successful, parents would agree to get well involved in it and follow the program as advised religiously. You need to follow this diet for three months prior to conceiving. However, since changes in ones body are involved with this method, it is advisable to consult an expert at this program.