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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