However, he wasnt surprised as he believed that it was related to his wife having three sisters.
Little did he know that he was in fact the one determining the sex of the baby.
Heidi Engelhardt, who was kind enough to answer a few of our questions.
Scroll down to find her insight in the text below.
Speaking broadly, the male does determine the sex of the child.
Each sperm has 23 chromosomes (unpaired), chromosomes 1-22 and the sex chromosome.
Products of the testes then drive the development of the rest of the male reproductive tract.
He likely came to regret it soon after, as his mom seconded his wife.
These technologies can be used to avoid having a child with a serious hereditary sex-related disease.
Sex selection for non-medical reasons, family balancing or social/cultural preferences, is controversial, she added.
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