When little Myla Lawrie was brought home from hospital four months ago, a veritable sea of pink greeted her, with clouds of balloons filling the sitting room, along with cards, bunting and ribbons in every shade of girliness. For this was a very special event in the Lawrie family. When Myla was born in October, she was the first girl to be born in her family since 1809. The last time a midwife announced ‘It’s a girl’, the Napoleonic war was still being fought, the motorcar was yet to be invented, and ‘mad’ King George III was on the English throne.
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Myla Lawrie was the first girl to be born in her family since 1809
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No wonder her proud parents from Maidstone in Kent, wanted to celebrate
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When Hannah, 26, met Mark, he told her his family had only produced boys for five generations
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But she became pregnant with a girl after only allowing love-making before ovulation, rather than during, to increase the chances of a girl
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