To ask how to conceive a boy?

[ChickenLickenSticken]

At my 10 day check with dd my midwife said "well done getting a girl, they are harder to conceive... Next time if you want a boy, give me a shout and I'll tell you how"... She's got nearly 40 years mw experience so I kind of believe her, but am not going to ring the doctors surgery and ask them o ask her for me!!

Do any of you lot know what she banging on about?? Surely any tips are purely anecdotal?

I remember hearing that girl sperm and boy sperm survive/swim differently but can't remember what way round.

Day 3 of ewcm here and whilst we're not ttc for a couple of months it'd be interesting to know these things, even if they are all a bit pie in the sky??

So come one, tell me your experiences and tips of choosing your baby's gender?

[ClartyCarol]

Gah, now I'm a minger.

[WinkyWinkola]

Assuming a woman's PH is the same all time, lurcherlover.

[cannotfuckingbelievethis]

How the hell does she know this given that she only gets involved "after the event" ? Is she usually in the room at conception shouting "left a bit...no, no, right a bit...ok. go.....pump, pump, pump !"

Good luck with the wee boy if that's what you want

[Kafri]

Errr!!

I had IVF with ICSI where they pick out the best quality egg and sperm and inject the sperm directly into the egg. (For medical reasons, not for some mad woman, choose the sex, hair colour, personality of baby beforehand) and it was still a 50/50.

I'm firmly in the camp of you have a baby and love whatever sex appears.

PS your MW sounds potty and rather than ringing the docs to ask her advice on having a boy, I'd be ringing asking for a different MW
visions of her telling you to cast a spell of protected sex on Tuesday lunchtime followed by chips and egg for tea then unprotected sex on Wednesday, no later than 6pm and hey Presto - pregnant and it's a boy

[Dinosaurdrip]

I was told that if you orgasm while having sex this produces a good environment for boy sperm and if you don't that more girl sperm will survive.

I have 2 DS, ds2 was conceived on day 14 of a 28 day cycle (i know this because we only had sex once that month) and when ttc dc3 after a mmc there were a few months where we were dtd 4 days before ov and me not 'enjoying' it so much (because I thought a girl would complete my family) silly i know! these months produced bfn after bfn.

I then took to picking DP up on his lunch break to rush him home for a quickie whenever we got the chance, right up to when I ovulated and there it was the longed for bfp. Dd1 was born so all theories were incorrect.

[babysbreath]

If you want a boy, make sure your partner is not a pilot.

Most pilots have girls, as the sex ratio for non flying people is 50/50 and for fighter pilots it is a ratio of boys to girls of 38/62.

All to do with G force.

[ComposHat]

The only thing I have heard is that having sex 'doggy' style is more likely to produce boys. Not sure if it's true though'

Reminds me of the old joke: three pregnant women meet in a cafe. The first one says 'I'm having a boy because my husband was on top when we conceived.'

'Oh right' says the second woman 'we're having a girl because I was on top when we conceived.'

The third woman, looking anxious blurted out 'oh god I must be having puppies then.'

[branofthemist]

When I was pg with dd she'd apparently correctly guessed the gender of something like 50 babies on the trot by listening to the heartbeat.

and who verified this apart from her telling people.

It's all bollocks

[PurpleDaisies]

This thread is three years old.

[schbittery]

i dont think it is complete bollocks because the x chromosome is bigger than the Y chromosome, so X carrying sperm are bigger and statistically heavier and slower. So statistically sex right at or around ovulation is more likely to result in a fster swimming small Y carrying sperm getting to the egg first. But i think there are other factors at play and its only a statistical leaning. i have heard that the pH of peoples vaginas can influence things as the y chromosomes are more fragile so people with a naturally more acidic pH are more likely to kill more y chromosomes before they get to the egg so that would again increase the chance of it being an x chromosome that survives to the top. Its only influencing chance though. unless you pay for sperm selection i guess.

[jesterkat]

I heard the thing about boy sperm swimming and dying faster than girl sperm. We monitored when I ovulated then stopped having sex for three days before ovulation to try for a girl.
We had a girl, did it work or coincidence? Who knows but we have one of each although was only done half believing and would've been happy with any.
Try it, doesn't cost anything, nothing to lose. Just be aware it may not work