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No more disappointments: Choose the sex of your child

Seeded on Sat Apr 3, 2010 12:16 AM EDT
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It's one thing to wish for a baby boy or girl, quite another to make it happen. Amanda Mitchison meets the couples heading abroad – where the sex selection business is booming

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Ninety per cent of Steinberg's Chinese families come for boys and, for reasons he hasn't fathomed, 70% of his Canadian patients are trying for girls. "The Brits are fairly evenly split, perhaps slightly favouring girls," he says.

"When people come in, we can often tell what sex they want before they tell us," he adds. "We find that if it's the woman who makes the first appointment, 70% of the time they're going to be wanting a girl. If the man calls up, 90% of the time it's for a boy."

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