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When's the best time to get pregnant? Use our interactive ovulation calculator to work out when you're most fertile and most likely to conceive.

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conceiving a girl

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claire8322 · 16/03/2007 19:11

how do you increase chances of having a girl?

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fionap19 · 22/03/2007 17:53

Hi,
Sperm are officially boys or girls (x or y) while eggs have no sex until fertilised.
Boy sperm do swim faster. that is true. Girls sperm is slower, but llast longr as someone else said. Yes to have a girl you need to have sex a couple of days before ovulation. the male sperms will die leaving the girl ones.
Men also control the amount of either they have according to temperature.
Cant remember which is which though!
thats why with assisted conception, which I have had you are more likely to have boys...(I have three!) because they aim at ovulation time itself!
Good luck!

MrsMar · 20/03/2007 18:38

I had no idea katzg! I stand corrected!

BTW I really wouldn't advocate getting dp to chain smoke if you want a girl, too many nasty side effects: cancer, heart disease, smellyness etc ewww!

Didn't I read somewhere diet can effect it too? if around the time of ov you eat specific things you can affect the outcome by altering your ewcm, or something....

feedmenow · 20/03/2007 16:16

Katzg, I love what your parents tell you!!

HappyDaddy · 20/03/2007 12:00

Don't you just stir it a different way, to make girls?

katzg · 20/03/2007 11:59

MrsMar - men have x sperm and y sperm the sperm aren't mixed as in they are either x or y not both but in one single ejaculation there are both x and y, the x sperm will form girls and the y sperm form boys

MrsMar · 20/03/2007 11:25

don't all sperm have x and y chromosomes so in effect they are all both female and male? I think the assumption is the faster ones are more driven by the y chromosome, but that's a theory. My mum has a theory about men who smoke having girls, as smoking damages their y chromosome. My bil is a heavy smoker and has 6 daughters, and another family friend who is also a heavy smoker also has 6 girls. Of course two people do not a trend make.

luciemule · 18/03/2007 21:34

The Miriam Stoppard book I have suggests for a girlie, try 2/3 days before ovulation as female sperm last that long and for a male baby, do it on the day or just after ovulation (as the faster male sperm will reach the ovum before the female sperm).
For a girl, do it frequently as it lowers the amount of male sperm in the body and do it infrequently for a boy to increase proportion of male sperm. This book is 5 years old and we tested all of these theories with second baby as originally I had wanted another girl but even doing that, we got a boy so who knows!!! Glad we did get a boy though and the theories didn't work.

katzg · 18/03/2007 21:27

my parents love to wind me up by saying girls are conceved (sp) in bed and boys al fresco! i'm one of 4 2 girls 2 boys, my standard responce is i don't want to know!

insywinsyspider · 18/03/2007 21:23

some one told me that you should look at the length of your fingers and if your ring finger is longer than your index finger then more likely to have girls, index longer then boys and if same length will be chance - something to do with exposure to testoserone in womb....

to be honest i reckon the hang gliding verus parachuting sex has same credability

scatterbrain · 17/03/2007 16:00

The timings one is the ONLY one that can work - and that only works SOME of the time !

Some people have girls, some have boys, some have a mix !

Ready · 17/03/2007 15:52

Just curious why you want to increase your chances of having a girl? If you don't mind me asking, that is?

lulumama · 16/03/2007 19:43

wow ! i have never heard of that.. i have no idea why the position would make a blind bit of difference, unless it affects the ability of certain sperm to swim towards the egg!

i think that all these theories and notions are a bit of fun, but most of them are probably nonesense....

although the boy sperm swimming faster but surviving less than slower swimming girl sperm is true i think !

greenday · 16/03/2007 19:40

Not sure if it would dictate. More like increaase the chances. I have no facts to back it up. Just that some people I know have sworn by it and claimed success.

lulumama · 16/03/2007 19:37

the position you have sex in can dictate the sex of the baby !!!!!! no, that cannot be !

hatrick · 16/03/2007 19:37

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greenday · 16/03/2007 19:36

Apparently, 'missionary' position for girls and 'doggie' for boys.

hunkermunker · 16/03/2007 19:35

Is WMF going to change too?

hatrick · 16/03/2007 19:33

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hunkermunker · 16/03/2007 19:31

I know - very nice new name

hatrick · 16/03/2007 19:31

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hunkermunker · 16/03/2007 19:29

Whereas DH and I practice parachute sex and have boys.

Simple.

hatrick · 16/03/2007 19:27

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hunkermunker · 16/03/2007 19:23

Sex while hang-gliding.

pollyanna · 16/03/2007 19:21

my last 2 girls were conceived on something like day 8 and day 6 (neither exactly planned - I should have learned my lesson after the first time ).

ImaWurzel · 16/03/2007 19:16

I read on fertilityfriend that if you have sex more often it will be a girl and less often for a boy. Don't know where they got that from. will try it and see.