Juanita Stead went to the hospital for pain caused by, what she thought, a passing kidney stone- instead she left with a baby boy.
“When I went back to emerg, the doctor was waiting for me and he said, ‘It’s no kidney stone.’ He said, ‘You’ve got a baby ready to be born,’ ” said the 36-year-old Stead.

Treating a baby boy like a girl and vice versa can cause alterations in the babies’ brains, a new study has found. Originally it was thought that such things were innate, and decided before birth. This study challenges the idea that differences between male and female brains are genetic. Read more…