Almost immediately, the Spanish director knew the film needed a labour scene. For all the women, giving birth had been a very traumatic event, she says. She heard stories about women in labour not being informed of procedures, or having their hearing partners removed from the room, depriving them of an interpreter as well as support. I left out some of the most difficult experiences. Her film gives us a frighteningly realistic birth scene.
The human sex ratio has long been of interest to biologists, statisticians, demographers, sociologists, and economists. Here, we showed that within each sibship size, sex at birth did not conform with a simple binomial distribution and identified a significant intramother correlation in offspring sex.
Kareem is Ashanti's first child, while Nelly has two older kids with ex-girlfriend Channetta Valentine and also adopted his niece and nephew after his sister's death.