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I've heard that having sex with man on top produces a boy, woman on top makes a girl. I've heard it -- doesn't mean I believe it.
But there are carefully researched methods that say exactly how to have a boy or a girl. One of those is the Shettles Method.
Landrum Brewer Shettles was a biologist and pioneer in IVF. He wrote How to Choose the Sex of Your Baby -- featuring non-invasive methods. Basically outlining when and how to have sex to get a boy or a girl.
According to Shettles, male sperm are more fragile, but they are faster swimmers than female sperm. So to have a boy, sex should occur as close to the time of ovulation as possible. They arrive first since they are faster. And it should be deep penetration since the male sperm is fragile and needs to be as close to the egg as possible.
To have a girl, have sex two to three days before you ovulate. Shallow penetration helps the girl sperm swim up through he acidic areas (where boy sperm may not survive).
And if you have an orgasm, that action supposedly favors male sperm.
Hmm...interesting. My husband and I know when we conceived our twins, who are boy and girl. And we certainly had a lot of sex that week when we knew I was ovulating. And we were even told that our twins were conceived on different days. According to this theory, all our creativity in the bedroom during that week may have enabled us to have a boy and a girl. Or it could have been the yams.
Do you believe in the Shettles Method or other methods to have a boy or girl?
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Comments 11
We'll see if any of those methods actually worked come April:) DH read everything he could about how to have a boy this time around...but I'm still expecting a girl! Although everything that this method says to do for a girl, actually gave us a girl last time so....we'll see!
i was trying really hard for a girl this time. i did everything i could find info on, diet, vitamins, positions, timing, everything! but i am having my 3rd baby boy in 9 weeks. i know it works for some people, but i think that some peoples ph levels and sperm stregth just cant be beat!
Shettles gave me two planned girls
We never used the Shettles method specifically to have a certain gender, but basically did 'favour a boy' when we were ttc because we were trying to have sex as close before O as possible because that generally increases the chances of pregnancy as a whole. Our first child was a boy (which Shettles would have predicted.) But our second child using the same ttc method was a girl. Our third baby was a suprise, but we did the deed several days before O (and then O'd early for the first time ever!) and she was a girl, as Shettles would predict. So I guess we were 2 for 3 with this method!
a friend of my husband told us in order to have a boy, we should have sex in the afternoons. i'm pregnant and i have no clue if it worked since we will find out the sex of this baby next month, i hope!
it doesnt work i have been trying to have a girl for a while and i have three boys and one girl and another boy due in jan!! the one girl was a fluke too!!
We tried for a girl for a while but we were having trouble getting pg so we stopped. I realized I wanted another baby more than I wanted a girl. Baby boy # 2 is due in 2 weeks.
I know this is an old post, but figured I'd comment anyway. We had 2 boys w/o trying for either boy or girl, w/o knowing when I was ovulating at all. Then I found The Shettles Method and read the book. We tried a few of the ideas and succeeded with 2 girls, 3 yrs apart. So I think it works. Now we have 2 boys and 2 girls ; D