Want to choose the sex of your next baby?

I can honestly say that while I was pregnant with my kids I heard all these stories about how moms to be did all kinds of things to sway what the sex of their child would be.  I myself never tried any of these, mainly because my boys were wanted surpises, but I have always thought that if I had the chance it would be fun to try this out and see if it works.  I mean, in the end, your worst odd are 50%-50% right? Now, thats not to bad!

How to Influence the Sex of Your Baby with the Shettles Method

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You may be able to sway the chances of having a boy or girl by knowing your time of ovulation and knowing some traits of the X and Y sperm. Boy sperm (Y) are long skinny swim fast and died young. Girl (X) sperm are short, fat, swim slow and live the longest. Sperm can live in a woman's fallopian tubes for up to 72 hours. Women produce eggs that are only X. Men produce X or Y sperm. Baby boys result from a XY combinations. Baby girls result from an XX combination.

Steps

1. Keep a calendar of your menstruation cycle.
2. Using an ovulation test kit (available at your pharmacy near the pregnancy test kits). Determine your ovulation and include this on your calender.
3. If you want to have a baby boy, you should have intercourse within hours after you ovulate. The male sperm will race up to the egg and fertilize it.
4. If you want to have a baby girl, you should have intercourse several hours to a day *before* ovulation. Male sperm will race around and kill themselves looking for an egg, leaving the girl sperm sitting around waiting for the egg to come to them.

Tips

• If this is your first child, all you really want is a healthy one, don't bother doing this unless you are young & healthy & your parents have 9 grandsons and are dying for a girl, etc.
• If you are having fertility issues, don't bother trying this. Have intercourse at your peak fertility. Let mother nature decide.
• If you have thick mucus during ovulation, sperm can't get through, douche first. Mucus should then be thin, not thick like phlem.

Source

"The Shettles Method of Gender Selection: Timing Intercourse & Sexual Position to Increase the Odds of having a Boy or a Girl"

Warnings

• The author is not a doctor, only a mother.
• Many health care professionals state that douching is dangerous, as it interferes with both the vagina's normal self-cleaning and with the natural bacterial culture of the vagina, and it might spread or introduce infections. For example, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services strongly discourages douching, warning that it can lead to irritation, bacterial vaginosis, and pelvic inflammatory disease (PID). Frequent douching with water may result in an imbalance of the pH of the vagina, and thus may put women at risk for possible vaginal infections, especially yeast infections.

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Sources and Citations

WikiPedia - Douche http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shettles_Method
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Have any of my readers tried to influance the sex of their child?  How was the outcome?  Comment and let me know. <3