Structural birth defects are problems related to parts of the body present at birth, like abnormally formed or missing limbs or organs. Babies with structural birth defects are more likely to be sickly and die early and more likely to be mentally retarded.

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Gender Confusion
medindia 8870 Posts A baby boy turned out to be a girl one month after being born to a couple in South Africa. Read More
Posted on : Friday, December 24, 2010 8:32 PM

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Please wait for a few years until the child can tell us what sex they are. Then provide whatever surgery is needed. Otherwise we get it wrong one time in 3. Babies are not blank slates, the sexed neuro-anatomy is laid down early in development, long before birth. Genital appearance is *not* a completely reliable guide. See Sexual Hormones and the Brain: An Essential Alliance for Sexual Identity and Sexual Orientation Garcia-Falgueras A, Swaab DF Endocr Dev. 2010;17:22-35 "..in the event of ambiguous sex at birth, the degree of masculinization of the genitals may not reflect the degree of masculinization of the brain."

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