Health tips can help in conceiving a baby boy or girl

Some couples can get pregnant right away, while others work towards their goal for months without success. Here are some tips that can help in conceiving a baby boy or girl.

1. Relax. This may seem like a no-brainer, but the stress of failing to conceive as you want can lead to a downward spiral of dashed hopes and depression that makes conception even harder. Men as well as women can become stressed over failing to achieve a pregnant because they think it reflects on their masculinity. Banish those negative thoughts! The best way to overcome stress related to trying to conceive is for both of you to practice yoga, deep breathing or other stress-relieving techniques together.

2. Learn the woman’s menstrual cycle. This can be accomplished by several methods involving keeping good records from the start of one period to the start of the next. Your chances of conceiving a baby boy or girl increase when you can pinpoint a woman’s fertile period. These techniques could involve tracking her body temperature, checking the condition of cervical fluid or other methods to determined ovulation.

3. If you smoke tobacco, drink alcohol or use illegal drugs, now is the time to quit. These practices have been shown to interfere with conception, as well as being bad for both you and your baby!

4. Use sexual positions that will help sperm travel up the vagina to fertilize an egg. In particular, avoid those positions in which the woman is on top of the man, as these angles will allow more semen and cervical fluid to leave the body.

5. Place a pillow beneath the woman’s hips during sexual intercourse to give the sperm more time to travel past the cervix.

6. Engage in sexual intercourse first thing in the morning. Most men have the highest sperm levels in the mornings.

7. Enjoy yourselves. Medical studies have found that a woman’s orgasm results in an alkaline condition in the vagina, which is more favorable for sperm than the organ’s typical acidic state that’s meant to repel bacteria. Furthermore, if both of you reach orgasm at the same time, this increases the opportunity for sperm to pass the cervix.

8. Men should avoid either constricting or overheating their testicles. Studies have shown that sperm counts decline if a man wears tight pants, brief underwear instead of boxers, or in some cases rides a bicycle frequently while wearing tight clothing. A man who is trying to impregnate his partner should also avoid using hot tubs and saunas, since excess

9. Some doctors recommend cutting back on dairy products. The “milk sugar” known as galactose can sometimes be harmful to ovarian function at high levels. Women who can’t metabolize galactose properly should get their calcium from fortified juices, beans, green leafy vegetables, and enriched flour rather than dairy products.

10. Finally, both partners should exercise regularly and eat a healthy diet. Keeping your bodies functioning well will ensure that you can make a healthy baby together.

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How to make sure your baby is a girl

Choosing the gender of their baby is something that potential parents have tried to do throughout recorded history. Despite the preference for boys in many cultures, there are still parents who’d prefer to have a girl. These parents seek out both medical procedures and folk methods that will help them have a baby girl.

For instance, many folk methods involve manipulating the mother’s biochemical balance through nutrition. This method says that if a couple wants to have a girl, the woman should eat mainly fish and vegetables and enjoy lots of chocolate. In addition, folk remedies say that to conceive a girl, parents-to-be should make love with the man on top and focus on the woman’s pleasure, believing that if the woman achieves orgasm first, a girl will be conceived.

Today medical science has several tests that can predict a baby’s gender after it’s conceived, but there are not many economical, completely effective methods for gender selection. Among those that exist currently is Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis, which works through in-vitro fertilization. In this process embryos created outside the body are tested for gender and genetic disorders. Then the embryos with the preferred gender are implanted inside the woman’s uterus by artificial insemination.

This process, known as PGD, has two major disadvantages: cost and multiplicity. PGD is an expensive way to make sure you have a girl baby; it costs nearly $20,000 per round. PDG also results in multiple viable embryos, all of which are usually implanted in the woman’s uterus to see which ones will “take.” Many of these embryos will sustain in this method, leading to multiple births unless the parents are willing to abort additional embryos. Thus it’s easy to see that parents who choose this method can get much more than they expected – a whole nursery full of baby girls!

There are two methods similar to PGD based on procedures invented in 1975 by Ronald J. Ericsson, Ph.D. Ericsson developed methods to separate “boy” and “girl” sperm, and then implant sperm of the desired gender into a woman to fertilize an ovum. For parents who want a baby girl would have “X” sperm implanted, since the egg would always be an “X”. About half of the in-vitro fertilization centers in the United States use this method.

Finally, there’s a controversial at-home method that thousands of parents have used successfully, but that medical science still doubts. It’s called the Shettles Method, developed in the mid-20th century by Dr. Landrum Shettles.

The Shettles Method involves timing intercourse to coincide with certain times in a woman’s menstrual cycle near ovulation. These times are determined by charting the woman’s basal body temperature and the condition of cervical mucus as data for an ovulation prediction kit. To have a girl baby, the Shettles Method suggests that a couple have sex 2-1/2 to 3 days before ovulation, since “X” sperm live longer in the womb, but swim more slowly (according to Shettles’ findings).

The study also recommends that sex should involve shallow penetration and that the woman should resist orgasm, since a physical climax sets up conditions in the vaginal environment that are hostile to “X” sperm.

Thousands of women around the world say the Shettles method enabled them to conceive the girl baby they wanted. However, medical science thus far hasn’t duplicated the results of Dr. Shettles’ 60-year-old studies. This has led some medical experts to caution against using the Shettles method to make sure your baby is a girl. There are some doctors who even insist that the Shettles method does more to prevent conception than to improve it.

Shettles also suggests that if you are trying to conceive a girl your partner should perform shallow penetration, while deeper penetration should be more effective for a boy.  Also, Shettles recommends that you don’t orgasm during sex if you are trying to conceive a girl, as the substances your body produces after orgasm make the vaginal environment more conducive to “boy”" sperm.

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A variety of myths exist about how to improve your chances of conceiving a girl naturally, but as time has progressed the Shettles method has emerged as the most useful for couples wishing to have a baby girl.

Developed by Landrum Shettles, the method is created to exploit the differences between the X and Y sperm, or ‘girl’ and ‘boy’ sperm respectively, to improve your chances of conceiving a girl naturally. Although influential, the method does not appear to have been subjected to rigorous scientific testing.

In order to conceive a girl naturally, Shettles argues that timing intercourse is the most important factor and in order to conceive a girl naturally, the couple should have intercourse until between two and four days before ovulation, which is the ‘cutoff’ point.

Sexual positions are an important part of Shettles’ method to conceive a girl naturally, as different positions result in the sperm being deposited closer to or further away from the cervix. The missionary position results in shallow penetration, and therefore causes the sperm to be deposited further away from the cervix so that the X sperm, which are slower but able to live longer, have a better chance of fertilising the egg. The natural acidity of the vagina may be beneficial in conceiving a girl naturally, and as a result Shettles advises that female orgasm be avoided, as the cervical fluid is more alkaline and creates a situation more hospitable to the sperm, and consequently a situation that favours the faster moving Y sperm.

What the mother eats can be a factor in conceiving a girl naturally, and it is recommended to eat foods high in calcium and magnesium, whilst avoiding those rich in sodium and potassium. Caffeine should be avoided as a general rule, because of links to a decrease in female fertility.

Although many have attributed success in conceiving a girl naturally thanks to the suggestions of Shettles’ method, it is worth taking into consideration that a single ejaculation releases millions of sperm, and consequently there may not be a great deal of impact. Thus there is no guarantee that following any of the above will mean you conceive a girl naturally.

For further information it may be worth contacting your general health practitioner, as the article provided above is for informational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose, treat or replace any medical advice from your health practitioner.

Suggested Reading:
+ Conceive a Boy Naturally
+ How to Conceive a Baby Boy?
+ How to Conceive Twins?

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