A few months earlier, we at choose-sex-of-baby.com offered a free trial of our Amazing Gender Selection Software to visitors of the website. A couple could give us their dates of birth and the year in which they planned to get pregnant, and also tell us the gender of the baby they wanted, and we would generate the output, analyse the results and send them our recommendation.

Unexpectedly, most of those who took up our offer desired to have baby girls. During this past year, a majority of people who took our paid service also indicated preference for daughters. This desire to conceive a girl was not restricted to couples from the US.

Why is it that there are so many couples desiring to have girl babies?

One of the reasons parents wish to could be that today's world is an rewarding and exciting place for women, with so many avenues,opportunities and experiences awaiting them that they could not have even some years ago. Parents have no special apprehensions about girl children than they have about boys.

One reason which we have been encouraging parents to know how to choose the sex of your baby is health-related. If either parents have a family history of X-chromosome linked diseases, the best way to protect their progeny from the defect is to try and increase the chances in favour of a particular gender. If the mother carries genes for such illness, it is considered better for her to give birth to girls, to break the transmission of the disease. We do not have any data as to how many parents had this in mind when they expressed a desire to know how to conceive a baby girl.

Perhaps the most common reason is from the heart. We saw that most of those who took our free trial were women. In most families today the bonds between mother and daughter are quite strong. They are able to share more of their wishes,experiences and dreams; they are very close friends. This could also be the reason for our receiving so many requests for recommending dates for conceiving a baby girl.

Just to confirm our assumptions we ran a search on the web to see what people had to say about the desire of families for daughters. This is what we found: advantages of having a girl include the belief that girls are pretty and the parent can "dress them up," that girls are strong and independent, that girls are more strongly attached to the family, mothers can are able to share more with daughters and that the "world is kinder to girls.

At the same time we also found that some parents preferred girl children because they thought that girls and fathers enjoy a special relationship.

A few families opted for girls either because they already had daughters and wanted more of them, or already had boys and longed for a girl to have at least one of each.

One particular answer was striking: that when parents get older, daughters are more likely to support by being present and care more than sons, perhaps because they are able to decide how and when they wish to be with their parents than the boys. "Daughters are more compassionate. When you are older they will come visit you. Boys will always become part of their wives' family"