After four generations of
having only male babies, a British family is celebrating the birth of a girl.
Danielle
and her partner Jeremy Silverton broke the more-than-century-old family streak
on Sept. 9, when Poppy was born at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital.
The
last female born into the family was Poppy's great aunt, Jessie, in 1913. Since
then, the Silvertons have had 16 boys, including the couple's eldest two --
Harry, 6, and Oscar, 4.
"I was totally amazed.
It was always boys, boys, boys. We just assumed it was going to be that
way," Poppy's grandfather, David Silverton, who is currently writing a
book on the Silverton family, told ABC News.
Jeremy
Silverton is a farmer and a lecturer on agriculture and said he was similarly
astounded by the news that he would be having a daughter.
When
asked about why he thought the family's fortunes had changed, the father was
clear that he thought it was a matter of chance.
"We
didn't do any research or do anything different to get a girl. I don't think
there is an explanation really. It's like tossing a coin. It just
happened," he said.
Studies
show that the sex of an infant comes down to chance, except in rare cases of
sex chromosome disorders.
When
the mother, Danielle, had a scan to check the baby's development, the couple
were informed about its sex.
"We
thought that maybe they had made a mistake, but it didn't stop us from painting
the nursery pink," Jeremy Silverton said.
"The
women in our family were really pleased," he added. "I think they're
pleased to finally go shopping for girls' clothes."
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