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Pregnancy Tips — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:40:01 +0000

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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How to Conceive a Baby Girl?

Pregnancy Tips — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 08:37:36 +0000

Its very normal if every parent in this world want balance family. If they have one baby boy for their first child, then usually they really want the next expecting baby is girl. If you are new parent and want baby boy for the first time, then you need to read the tips on how to conceive a baby boy. And if you already has a baby boy and want baby girl now, you could read the tips on how to conceive a baby girl from the article below.

Tips to Conceive a Girl
By Sandy Dean

If you’ve found this article, I’ll assume that you want to conceive a daughter and are looking for tips on natural ways that you can do this at home. This article will provide tips on ovulation timing, vaginal acidity and PH, and intercourse positioning that will help you conceive a girl baby.

Before I get started though, I’d like to briefly touch on X and Y chromosome sperm characteristics. It’s important to understand this because all of the pointers take advantage of the X chromosome (girl sperm) traits.

A man’s sperm contains X (girl) and Y (boy) chromosomes. If an X chromosome fertilizes the egg first, then this will result in girl baby. However, the girl producing sperm are slower than the boy producing sperm. To counter this, the girl sperm are much more hardy, can survive for much longer in the vaginal tract, and can also withstand a much harsher or highly acidic vaginal PH. The tips in this article then, will focus on taking advantage of their hardiness, while compensating for their lack of speed.

1. Accurately Time Conception Well Before Ovulation: We already know that boy sperm can’t hang around for very long because they’re weaker. But, girl sperm have no real problem surviving this. So, to take advantage of this situation, you want to conceive three days before you actually ovulate. This will give the boy sperm time to die off before the egg is released. Of course, it’s very important you know exactly when you ovulate. If you are even a little late, you’ll have more viable, fast swimming boy sperm in the vaginal tract. This is why I recommend saliva ovulation predictors as they are inexpensive, reusable, and highly accurate.

2. Use Intercourse Positions That Give The Boy Sperm Further To Travel: Again, we want to make the trip to the egg a long and hard one for the boy sperm. To do this, you should use intercourse positions that place the sperm as far away from the cervix as you can manage (shallow penetration.) This forces the boy sperm to travel further and for a longer period of time in an environment that is already hostile, (and can be made even more so), which leads me to:

3. Make Your Vaginal Acidity / PH As High As You Can Through Foods And / Or By Douching: Since we’re trying to give the boy sperm a long, hard trip to the egg both in terms of timing and distance, the last step is to make the vaginal PH high enough to be in the “girl zone.” This means you need a PH high enough to greatly discourage the sperm that would produce a boy.

This will be a lot easier for you if you know your PH going into this process. You can easily find this out using PH testing strips. Once you have your number, you’ll then know how much you need to make alterations.

Some women are naturally acidic and some are naturally alkaline. No matter where you fall, one way you can change this is through eating and avoiding certain foods. To conceive a girl, you want to consume foods high calcium and magnesium and avoid foods high in potassium and sodium.

Another way to make your PH higher is through specialty douches (this is more than vinegar and water for most.) Gender selection clinics sell these douches (sometimes for over $400), but there are recipes that allow you to get the same results at home.

The fastest, most effective way to make your PH higher is to use both douching and food. I understand that some women are opposed to douching though. You can change your PH with food, but you’ll need to be pretty diligent about it.

Still, with a little diligence and effort, none of these tips are difficult or expensive and can pay off big time when your daughter is born.

Conceive A Girl is a website that offers hints, tips, and natural, inexpensive methods for couples wishing to conceive a baby girl, as well as a resources for the gender selection douche recipes and foods to alter vaginal acidity and PH, as mentioned in this article. Visit us at http://how-to-conceive-a-baby-girl.blogspot.com/

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I hope the tips on how to conceive a baby girl above could work to you.