PART SIX - External Influences

Taking a common sense approach to understanding and reducing your chance of creating an ‘Intersex’ child is less complicated than you might think.

Birth Control Pills
Studies show that mothers, who unknowingly continued to take birth control pills during the early stages of pregnancy, when carrying a boy child, also tend to give birth to a greater number of ‘Intersex’ boys.

It is very important to know when you are pregnant as early as possible, since birth control pills for the most part, are a synthetic form of the hormones progesterone and estrogen. Taking birth control pills while carrying a boy child should be avoided, as the influx of the synthetic estrogen and as you now know, can create an imbalance in the testosterone necessary for the male’s healthy sexual development of the hypothalamus.

Synthetic Estrogen
Synthetic estrogen therapy can create very similar risks for the male child. Recent studies also have shown that synthetic hormones also increase the chance of breast and other cancers in premenopausal and menopausal women. Even before this official finding, many proactive women took action and refused to take the synthetic hormones and choose more natural methods for balancing their female hormones. This proactive approach may have been key to saving the breasts and lives of millions of women, along with reducing their chance of creating a male child with the ‘Intersex’ condition.

The Impact of Soy
In a 2004 issue of Mothering magazine, their article “Whole Soy Story: The Dark Side of America's Favorite Health Food” points out that even though soy can be an excellent source of protein and a great substitute for cows milk, soy naturally contains a high level of estrogens. Understanding what you now know about increasing estrogen levels when carrying a male child, you may want to also avoid soy products during the critical first three months of pregnancy. However, if carrying a female child, the additional natural estrogen provided by soy may be just what your female child needs.

Personal Stress and Fear
The first step for mothers would be to gain as much information about the ‘Intersex’ conditions so you have a full understanding and are not fearful. You can visit the Intersex Society of North America at http://www.isna.org/. The more you know, the better prepared you are to take make more informed choices around your unborn child’s care and development.

A very clear coloration between growth of Intersex children is with the rapid increase of pregnant women working stressful jobs outside the home during the first trimester. As far back as the early 70s and the large number of ‘Intersex’, homosexual or ‘gay’ children who are now between the ages of 1 to 35. And the numbers continue to grow every year as elementary, junior high and high schools try to deal with this influx of sexually diverse and gender challenged children.

Understand that this is not an issue of working women, but an issue of women being stressed during the critical first trimester or first 3 months of pregnancy. It’s all about setting the right priorities at the right time.

It is vitally important for the sexual health of particularly the male child that you ensure that before attempting to get pregnant. The focus is to do everything you can to prepare yourself to ensure that your first trimester (first 3 months) are the most stress and fear free to protect the sexual development of your child, male or female.

Traditionally, special care early on is normally only a focus if the woman has indications of a condition that puts her pregnancy at risk. However, when pregnant with specifically a male child, it may be critical for you to create as much a stress free environment and life as possible for the first three months, for his healthy sexual development.