Conceiving a baby girl on the day of ovulation?

@RedPandaFluff
sounds like a load of claptrap to me
That’s because it is!

The chance of having a baby of either sex is 50%, the fact that someone used this “method” and got a child of a particular sex doesn’t prove anything- It is not a simple case of cause and effect and several subsequent independent studies have shown the method doesn’t work.

It’s interesting reading the other thread. People who dtd on the day of ovulation and had girls. They don’t seem to realise that even a boy sperm takes about half a day to swim to the egg. Dtd needs to be before ovulation and so these eggs were probably conceived from the time they dtd two or three (even five)days prior to ovulation. Girl sperm live for up to 5 days where the egg only lasts less than a day. The sperm ideally need to be in position near the ovary ready for when the egg emerges.

@LittleTiger007 Exactly my pojnt too. I've only been TTC 6 months and knew literally NOTHING before that, everything to do with conception was a complete mystery to me.

(Aside from the fact that obviously if I ever even once DTD without protection I'd get knocked up immediately - hollow laugh - )

Most people will know but some don't and I don't think wilfully using incorrect terms is very helpful.

I was aware of this idea for second 2 children and it worked out according to plan but obviously we would have been happy either way and I wasn't invested in it working.

[quote Juno231]**@DuzzyFuck* @LittleTiger007* thing is everyone in the thread knows what they mean by it so it's just semantics to get hung up on it.[/quote]
With respect some people don’t know and the point of this thread is discussing the difference a gap makes between dtd and conception. That’s the whole point of the shettles theory.

Sometimes people’s tone is lost in a typed message and I typed my point in a perfectly relaxed, non critical way. Sorry if it was taken wrongly.

Sounds like a theory that’s driven by pedestrian sexism. How would you prove such a thing. For those who say they “conceived” on the day of ovulation, what do you mean. Everyone conceives the day of ovulation or very shortly after: the average lifespan of an egg is 0.7 days. Do you mean you only had sex once on the day of ovulation? If you had sex more than once in the week prior, you can’t possibly know which sperm fertilised the egg.

@DuzzyFuck @LittleTiger007 thing is everyone in the thread knows what they mean by it so it's just semantics to get hung up on it.

@DuzzyFuck yes too many referring to dtd as conceived. Conceived is when sperm meets egg ... which could be five days after dtd

I have 2 boys and both times sex was on ovulation day x

Confused by the semantics in this thread. Nobody can conceive 'before' ovulation, do you all mean that's when you DTD?

Surely everyone conceives on the day of ovulation, since the released egg is only viable for circa 24 hours? The only difference would be how long the sperm has been kicking around in their beforehand?

I used Shettles and it worked for me. I get ovulation pains so its easy to work out the dates. My sons were conceived on the day of ovulation. My daughter was 3 days before.

Its not a fail safe method though. I have friends that it didn't work for.

Here is another thread with some more opinions OP-

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/pregnancy/833477-Did-anyone-conceive-on-exact-day-of-ovulation-and-have

2 boys and a girl here- fairly certain the boys were conceived on the day of ovulation whereas my daughter was a couple of days before

@RedPandaFluff and when you say that the sperm can fertilise the egg at any point during its 1-5 day travel down the fallopian tube, you actually mean it can only be fertilised within 12-24h of ovulation (before travelling down the tube!) right? Seeing as it dies if not fertilised by that point and doesn't just carry on wandering down.

I believe I conceived on day or ovulation (1 shot wonder 🤣) and I had a boy.

Not sure if I believe all the theories, but interesting hearing peoples experiences above. There may be something in it.

So hard to know as for every person who found it to be true there'll be another where it was false.

However in my case it was definitely true. My son was conceived around ovulation day (according to due date) yet my daughter wasn't planned (we weren't trying but were happily & knowingly risking it) & we had sex 4 days before ovulation. The theory was true for me & a few other people I know but as everyone else has said, who really knows!

Congratulations on your pregnancy 😊😊

Never heard of this but it would explain why I had 3 girls. I always knew when I was ovulating because of the terrible ovulation pain I used to get and sex just didn't happen. Conceiving a boy would have been impossible if this theory is correct.

If you think about it if you have sex every day around conception then there would be both male and female sperm around the egg... the females may just have been around the Fallopian tubes from a few days previously ?

The Shettles method has proved to be wrong, other research has been done to try and replicate the results and they got the opposite result!
All in all it's not a fool proof methid either way as you cannot pin point the exact point of conception (even if you know when you ovulate) and a girl sperm could be the fastest and boy sperm have lived a long time and then fertilised the egg. I have a DD and we had sex more or less everyday around ovulation (want more than need)

We had sex on day of ovulation and had a boy. Not sure about the other two as we had sex everyday in the fertile week. I've got 2 boys and a girl.

Apparently some men don't carry 50/50 male female sperm and some men only carry the sperm of one sex. If you're husband only has brothers and his brothers only have sons, it's likely they only carry male sperm. If there's lots of girls in the family then he may carry more female sperm than male.

Apparently time of year can dictate sex as well. But I'm not sure about that one as if you look at maternity ward stats it's usually 50/50 boy girl. That does apply to cows though.