Research Article
Why Do Parents Prefer to Know the Fetal Sex as Part of Invasive Prenatal Testing?
Table 2
Pregnancy history and childbirth plans.
| | Variable ( = numbers of respondents) | | Percentage |
| | Number of previous children () | | | | None | 66 | 31.4 | | 1 | 95 | 45.2 | | 2 | 37 | 17.6 | | 3 | 10 | 4.8 | | 4 | 1 | 0.5 | | 5 | 0 | 0 | | 6 | 1 | 0.5 | | Did you know the fetal sex in previous pregnancies? () | | | | Yes, in all pregnancies | 66 | 44.6 | | Yes, but not in all pregnancies | 15 | 10.1 | | No | 67 | 45.3 | | Do you want to have more children? () | | | | Yes | 25 | 11.9 | | No | 126 | 60.3 | | Don’t know yet | 57 | 27.3 | | Depends on the sex of this baby | 1 | 0.5 | | Have you already picked out your baby names? () | | | | Yes, a name for a girl | 6 | 2.9 | | Yes, a name for a boy | 9 | 4.3 | | Yes, a name for both sexes | 131 | 62.7 | | No | 63 | 30.1 | Are you going to tell others the sex of
your unborn child? () | | | | No | 64 | 39.3 | | Yes, to my family | 34 | 20.9 | | Yes, to my friends | 1 | 0.5 | | Yes, to my family and friends | 64 | 39.3 | Are there people in your environment
who know the sex of their unborn child? () | | | | No | 20 | 9.6 | | Yes, everybody I know | 16 | 7.7 | | Some people I know | 151 | 72.2 | | I do not know | 22 | 10.5 | Are you influenced by people in knowing
the sex of your unborn child? () | | | | No | 202 | 97.2 | | Yes, because of them I want to know | 3 | 1.4 | | Yes, because of them I don’t want to know | 3 | 1.4 |
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