Childcare expert Sheila Kitzinger criticised parenting guru Gina Ford for promoting techniques 'more suitable for training a dog'. According to the Daily Mail, Ms Kitzinger said parents are encouraged to treat their babies as enemies by enforcing 'boot camp' discipline and controlled crying.
The longer a woman takes to get pregnant, the more likely she is to have a boy, said a BBCNews report of Dutch research.
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