How do I concieve a girl?

This thread is 17 years old now so you might be as well to start a fresh one :)

Where is this please?

I used HCP method and it worked for me, conceived DD on day 9 of 28 day cycle and DS on day 14. However if I remember rightly it does depend on other factors, one being sperm count. So if your partner has a very high sperm count it is highly likely to be a boy despite the timing of cenception and vice versa. It was along time ago I read it so I may be wrong!

Well it seems some of you are either celeb stalkers, jorno`s, unemployed or all of the above?! If someone is willing to go through the adoption process, good luck to them! It is both intrusive and drawn out (and in my opinion if it was compulsary for all perspective parents to be assessed under this would mean 50%+ losing their birth child!)authorities HAVE to follow the same government policies and procedures, regardless WHO YOU ARE!So be happy for the children and parents as im sure they are.

hazel c-p did not work for us x3

People who "fail" on Hazel's book tend to keep more quiet about it though. I don't tend to go around telling people that my last 2 sons were not what they were planned to be.

pushchairmad - we used Hazel Chesterton book and so did some frineds. It worked for both us and them

We concentrated on the timing/frequency of bonking method as it is based on science. You do have to follow it carefully though

I'll discuss adoptions where I like thanks! Adoptions aren't confined to some kind of ghetto!!! And anyway it was a perfectly reasonable response by someone to the OP being desparate for a girl.

I think Nancy does need to back up her argument if she has accused a (named) adoption agency of illegal practices - at the very least MN could decide to pull her posts if anyone reported them. You cannot accuse anyone of anything you like just because its the internet. MN discovered that to its cost last year.

And anyway the thread had died two days ago until you posted

Stop giving Nancy a hard time. She doesn't need papers to back her up. I'm sure none of you are perfect.

I agree with Kewcumber, on some things. I wouldn't talk about the circumstances of children in developing countries on here. Unless someone has set foot in a Cambodian orphanage, they don't understand how bad it is.

Now, back t o you, op. Okay, enough talk about adoptions. If you want to discuss adoptions, go to the adoptions thread.

My friend's 2 dd's were conceived close to ovulation.

i have a boy and a girl , conceieved around the same day in my cycle, so i am not convinced!

I would think dh and I wouldn't have a 50;50 chance of a girl, I reckon by natural methods it would probably be more like 80:20 in favour of a boy.

CoteDAzur, in my own personal study of that method the success rate was 0% Have 3 fab boys and another on the way!

how do you know there is no study!?

No need to get shirty though, I honestly can't remember where I read it, or if it was a reputable source or not (may not have been), but obviously there are no guarantees, and so my point to the OP remains.

I don't know how anyone can say chances are 40/60, since there is no study on the subject.

CoteDAzur - I remember reading that method, and that it's (apparently) based on fact, but that it changes the chances from roughly 50/50 to something like 40/60.

OP - don't do it unless you are perfectly happy with the 40% chance of another boy.

kewcumber - I followed your thread when you were adopting your DS but haven't caught up for ages. Just had a look at your profile and saw how happy and healthy he looks Gorgeous smile!

To the OP - I would definately advise against "going for a girl". I'm not saying you're a terrible person for wanting a girl, but if you get another DS, how will you feel> How will he feel? And if you have a DD, how will your boys feel?

my sons motehr is (presumably) also alive, she hasn't seen him since the day he was born.

1 - why is it AJ's fault that everyone (including the grandmother) lied about the fact that the mother was alive?
2 - where was the concerned mother in the year before AJ came on the scene? Do you really beleive if it was me who tipped up to adopt the child that she owuld have reappeared? Maybe you do, maybe I'm too cynical
3 - are you an investigative journalist? If so I'm sure you have published what you have discovered - I'd be really interested (genuinely) to read it.
4 - its possibly that the agency deliberately offered this child to AJ knowing she ought to be with her birth mother, in my experience there are plenty of children wihout parents around to care for them to bother with faking information on the ones who do. Again, only my experience but it is based on knowledge of hundreds of adoptive parents who have subsequently traced brith paretns and not one I know of has claimed to have had their child "stolen".

so where is the evidence then? Where are the links to the sites where this is all confirmed?

It's one thing to debate something when you have evidence to back it up, but to say "I know this to be the case and you are wrong" without providing any material proof is quite another.

so link to the artacles you have researched that prove that Zahara's mother is alived and that A.J's lawyers threatened her into giving up her daughter and I will debate with you. But without evidence it's just someone staying their opinions on a topic imo.

Anyway - we've hi-jacked the poor woman's post. She only wanted to know how to conceive a girl.
Answer: You can't. It's 50/50 every time.

To conceive a girl: Have sex 3-4 days before ovulation. It might take a while to get pregnant but when you do, it will probably be a girl.

The idea is that you have XX chromosomes, so the sex of the baby is determined by whether the sperm carries the father's X chromosome ('girl' sperm) or his Y chromosome ('boy' sperm).

Boy sperm is quick but does not live very long. So if you have sex at or after ovulation, it is highly likely that boy sperm will get to the egg first and fertilize it, and you will have a boy.

Girl sperm is slow but lives longer. So if you have sex several days before the ovulation, boy sperm get there first but die off waiting for the egg. Girl sperm come in slowly, fertilize the egg at their leisure, and you have a girl.

I hope that helps. DD is an 11th day baby and my cycle was over 30 days at the time.

make it a 'mistake', as in, your dh is supposed to pull out when orgasming but some accidentally spills. it worked twice for me (not on purpose)

Wannabe - I investigated the case of Zahara, there is no question the mother is alive and there is no question the adoption agency and the 'fixers' knew this.

I agree Kew, surely the child happiness should take presidence. Whats to say a black adoptive mother is gonna be any better than a white one

wendy - increasingly social workers are accepting that the 70's thinking of same ethinicity only has gone too far and it isn't so uncommon to find transracial adoptions in teh Uk anymore (though not so common in London) ironically children who aren't adopted are overwhelmningly palced with white foster carers. Oh thats much better then