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Let's talk about Ramzi... again
Yes, I know, I wish this stupid Ramzi “theory” would go away already, too! BUT… it’s been messing with my head so much and when I tried to debunk it… it didn’t quite work. Well, let me break it down for you and I’ll be very grateful for everybody’s opinion and experiences!
Why it can’t be true
1.) There is no sound biological reason why male embryos should almost exclusively implant on the right side of the uterus and females on the left and to my knowledge, not even Ramzi himself offers an explanation. Um, well he does - the idea came to him in a dream in which he performed an ultrasound on the virgin Mary (!!!! source: https://bottlesoup.com/2014/03/06/dr...-ramzi-theory/, Ramzi’s comment from Dec 25th 2014). Why should Mother Nature limit herself so much? It makes no sense.
2.) Ramzi’s “study” has never been properly published in an actual peer-reviewed scientific journal and has even been pulled from the internet years ago. Why would he do that?
3.) Ramzi himself - this is actually not even his own name, but, if I understand correctly, his father’s name and he named this “theory” in his honor - is a very, very shady character. Even if you don’t doubt that he holds a PhD, there are lots of other reasons to doubt his seriousness and respectability. For example, he claims he examined more than 13.000 (!!) women for his “study” (source: see link above). I’ve researched dozens of actual scientific studies done on pregnant women and most involved a hundred, maybe a few hundred women, but not more. No wonder, imagine how much time it would take to examine thousands of women as a single scientist! So, I’m convinced this alone is a blatant lie. Secondly, he claims that embryos can change their sex after conception (!!!!) and a few more crazy things: “…there is a great deal that the sex chromosome do change and switch depending on the placenta position in the uterus…”
Source: https://bottlesoup.com/2014/03/06/dr...-ramzi-theory/
And thirdly, he’s now crossed over to investigating the paranormal: Paranormal Zone,The Haunting Dimensions- PZHD – Investigation of paranormal activities and haunting – Cleansing using wide range of methods since 1986. Now serving in Alberta.
I’m lost for words.
4.) Look at these example u/s pics from the “Gender Experts” who charge you for their opinion on your baby’s sex according to Ramzi:
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If you look closely you’ll see that this is actually the exact same pic, just rotated and mirrored. Why would they do that - why wouldn’t they just use real pics? Looks fishy to me.
5.) One really funny thing: When you go on the German internet - I happen to understand German fairly well - you’ll find that most of them completely misunderstood Ramzi and think girls implant on the right and boys on the left. :D :D :D At least that’s how the women in the most popular forums discuss it and according to this thinking, they predict the babies’ sexes and lo and behold… they are correct most of the time!! Hahahaha!!
6.) And, best of all: There seems to be at least one actual scientific study that put Ramzi’s ”findings” to the test and could not reproduce them (The & Chan, The role of placental location assessment in the prediction of fetal gender, published in Women’s Diagnostic Ultrasound, Sydney, NSW, Australia): https://obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.co....1002/uog.8569
I almost cried with relief when I found this!!
Why I can’t shake the feeling there might be something to it
1.) Nobody has ever exposed Ramzi as a fraud in the sense that he does not hold the degrees he claims he holds, a BsC in Diagnostic Imaging and an MsC in Medical Ultrasound that he earned in Australia. But if this is true, that would make him more qualified for a study like this than if he was a regular OB/GYN or any MD. As a matter of fact, if any professional on God’s green earth could come up with findings of these kinds, it would be someone of these qualifications and experiences.
2.) If there WAS something to his “findings”… the medical community and even the governments of this world would have a vested interest in suppressing and discrediting this info. Because imagine what would happen if families in India, Pakistan, China, Vietnam, … could find out their baby’s gender with a simple u/s pic in the 6th week of pregnancy - right, gender based abortions would GO THROUGH THE ROOF! In China, until recently the sex ratio was 120:100, meaning 120 boys were born for every 100 girls, and not, not because of swaying or some strange coincidences but because so many girls are aborted!! https://www.scmp.com/news/china/poli...ng-worlds-most
So I am not surprised at all Ramzi has been ignored and decried so thoroughly so far! And this also explains why so many doctors and u/s technicians, when asked by a newly pregnant woman keen on trying Ramzi on her first u/s pic, claim that it’s too early to see where the embryo implanted (my doc did that and I know many other do it too, some even directly reply that Ramzi is nonsense). It is NOT too early, you can at least see the chorionic villi and get a general idea. But they aren’t stupid and I guess they just try to keep us from the temptation of terminating a pregnancy with a baby of the less desired sex.
3.) It has been correct for almost everybody I know.
Yes, that’s a stupid argument. Actually, it is no argument at all. Because by the same token, I looked up for how many women an FMU ph of less than 5 correctly predicted a girl, and was I flabbergasted when for about 90% of all women in all forums this was the case! Woohoo, finally a reliable early method for gender prediction! Only when I checked the opposite claim - that low urine ph predicts a boy and high ph predicts a girl - there were just as many women who confirmed that this had been true for them. Exactly the same effect as with the “reverse Ramzi” on the German internet! Goes to show how everything can hold true depending on whom you ask!
But still… Ramzi WAS correct for almost everybody I know. Including my first son.
It was even correct for many women on the internet who said they sent their u/s pic to the “Gender Experts” (and paid them!) and got a “girl” prediction when they were really having a boy. And they uploaded their pics. And I could see right away that their pics were upside down… and when you turn them around (not mirror them, just turn them on their heads - the little circle has to be on the bottom of the pic because that’s where the ultrasound probe goes into the vagina and I have no idea why some techs would turn the imagine on their head, has never happened with any of my pics), all of a sudden the placenta is on the right and Ramzi is correct.
This is one example:
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Source: https://community.whattoexpect.com/f...ong-ramzi.html
The pic is clearly upside down because the narrow part would have to be on the bottom. The “Gender experts” obviously didn’t notice and gave this woman a girl prediction - and then she found out she was having a boy.
If you flip the image the early placenta is on the other side - the “correct right” - and then Ramzi applies. (And then it also looks exactly like my son’s earliest u/s pic and my current baby’s pic… :( )
This is one example of at least 5 or 6 I found.
But of course I’m not an u/s technician nor a doctor and could be completely mistaken in my assumption that the narrow part always has to be on the bottom of the pic. The Gender Experts themselves published a few pics - like this of a “confirmed boy” - in which this seems not to be the case: http://www.thegenderexperts.com/ramz...-database-boy/
Pic 15 of 15 - I would have turned the pic on its head and sworn this is a girl.
Okay, well, thank you for reading. I guess I’m just making myself crazy here based on NOTHING at all. At least in writing this post, I have worked through everything again and come to the conclusion that Ramzi is most likely NOT reliable and that it’s a waste of time to obsess over it like I do. Forgive me, this is my last baby, Ramzi says boy again and I’m clutching at straws that there might, after all, despite Ramzi and my intuition, be a little girl in my belly…
