Kate didn't choose to have a boy....

If ignorance and lack of science are what the The Daily Beast are promoting overseas in the UK, they sure have one heck of an editor in Tina Brown, who must have flunked her GCSEs in science. Quoting the nincompoop on the birth of the royal child (Kate and William's kid) :

“Once again, she does the perfect thing. Although there’s the constitutional change that we can now have a girl as the firstborn to be the monarch, nonetheless she does the traditional thing and she gives us a prince, she gives a king. Let’s face it, the queen will be thrilled. She and the duke of Edinburgh, much as they would have said they’d be fine with a girl as the firstborn, they really wanted a boy and they got one!”

I'm going to go all Keith Olbermann here: No, it wasn't their choice, no one chooses to have a child of the particular sex science has changed that, but still. it's rare and the father determines (through sperm) what the child's sex will be, and even he doesn't have control over that (although this link does say something about men having a different concentration of sperm that might lead to a family having all boys vs all girls). I kinda have to buy this, as my biological father had a brother (said uncle and I are having lunch next week, and he is also my godfather too), my paternal grandfather

On my paternal grandmother's side, it's fishy, same for my mom too. The grandchildren of Louis and Irene Baci (my maternal grandparents) are all male, and yet they had two daughters. My paternal great-grandfather (my paternal grandmother's father) father two sons and two daughters, and three of those four children had all sons, and the one child who didn't (my late-great uncle Paul) had only one daughter, Tanya.

I'd be somewhat surprised if I don't have a son. That being said, anything's possible, and I wish carefully, as dreams do come true sometimes. Granted though, I can't find good news stories, but here's a scary (at one time a happy) dream come true: Katie Holmes' marriage to Tom Cruise.

Sorry to use you as an example, Katie Holmes.