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Re: Fetus....male?...female? From: udaya kumar (udaya@md2.vsnl.net.in) Thu Jan 18 07:40:32 2001 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: SSOESQ@aol.com: "Echogenic round 2mm focus" Previous message: udaya kumar: "Re: Uterine cysts" Maybe in reply to: Dr Fazeel uz Zaman: "Fetus....male?...female?" We have a Law in India against any prenatal testing for gender identification. Ultrasound centers are requested to refrain from mentioning the gender for gender sake. In fact, the IFUMB has undertaken this year as the "Year of no sex determination by Ultrasonography" ...Udayakumar Dr Fazeel uz Zaman wrote: > Dear friends, > Should we tell the gender of fetus to mother/parents, during ultrasound > examination. > Is somebody aware of any research, where outcome for fetus/mother was > bad if gender was known beforehand.......i heard there is one from UK > probably. i don't have the referrences. In which outcome (perinatal > morbididty or mortality of neonate or mother)was bad from whatever > cause...if sex was known (whatever the sex) > > In our culture, male babies are preferred choice and if mother is told > fetus is female, she stops eating drinking and gets depressed with bad > outcome. Even at the delivery time shock and postpartum hemorrhage is > more common here, if fetal sex F is declared. therefore here even after > the birth of a female child mother is not told till she is out of danger > of PPH, shock etc. If it is a male fetus, the mother might become > over-excited......that is again a stress.i read in newspaper, n some > cultures female fetuses are likely to be aborted or even newborn females > may be killed (infanticide) > What is your opinion and what is practiced there. > I'm confused.......I don't tell gender now except to doctor colleagues, > if they (rarely) request for medical or other reasons, or if the parents > are doctors......Dr. Dr. Fazeel Next message: SSOESQ@aol.com: "Echogenic round 2mm focus" Previous message: udaya kumar: "Re: Uterine cysts" Maybe in reply to: Dr Fazeel uz Zaman: "Fetus....male?...female?"

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