to be wanting to try this experiment? Related to determining the sex of babies

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I come from a farming area. Apparently older generations 'decided' or 'guessed' the gender of their babies using information they had on how to breed 'the right' livestock (for example in the case of dairy cattle).
The information I was given actually matches my experience. With my first born I thought it was pure coincidence, but I recently found out whether, if all goes well, I will be having a boy or a girl next, and this time, too, the gender matches.
I am now curious to find out whether other women also find that this information matches their experience/reality (but I do not know enough pregnant/women with babies). However, I do not want this to be in any way understood as a 'gender engineering' experiment. I think it could be fun and I am curious.
What do you think? Should we try this or is it going to be very messy?

You wouldn't actually get one sex more than the other with Op's method.
Op claims it's to do with ovulation. As women have very different cycles between 28 and 35 days and sperm can last days, conception can occur weeks apart. And babies arrive early, late and on time .
How would the majority of women know they were ovulating by the way?

Ooh. Just checked and I ovulated during a no moon/new moon and I have a DS. Interesting...

Still, it's a 50/50 chance isn't it, so the odds aren't that incredible!!

Just to point out that I know ovulation and conception need to be in a certain together time frame.
It's just that doctors tend to work out ovulation from your period not the conception/ ovulation date.
Which is why (only having sex the once that year) I knew the exact due date for DS not the date I was given which was 10 days out.

I have 2 boys. That method is right for one but not DS2. He should be a girl

Both of mine are correct, but it doesn't convince me of the theory. Fun though :)

Yep, works for my two DDs.

Well I've just had twins-a boy and a girl. So is there a crossover period? Otherwise it kind of buggers up the theory!

B/G twins would be rare if there was anything in this.

At first I thought this was bullshit but I checked and it worked for me. I ovulated on 1st, 2nd or 3rd of March last year. So from full moon to no moon. Had DD in November. I'm still a bit sceptical but will try this next time!

I don't understand still

How can you be sure of the exact day you ovulate without doing an OPK (and even then it could be wrong!)...

It was right for me, but I suppose there was a 50/50 chance!

allisgood lots of women, especially when ttc, pick up on signs they are ovulating. I can even feel which side I'm ovulating on, which is very weird!

You have nicked this idea from a Roald Dahl short story* and I claim my five pounds.

*the name of which I now, naturally, cannot remember - extra points for anyone who can.

Puntastic Really?!?! I have to say I never read RD so I did not know! But if you give me your address, when I get the patent, I will send you 5 quid

Allisgood Yes, I used OPKs, body changes and so on. Even if you do not get the exact date, given that the window is supposed to be a good ten days, it is easy to find out.

Well, twins probably are born only when Venus is visible at 3pm on the new moon day, or something like that

According to that dd should be a boy.
Ds1 should be and is a boy
Ds2 should be a girl.
So only right for 1 out of 3.

puntastic I have some recollection that it involves the same gang of reprobates that feature in Danny, Champion...

Off to look through my book.

It is a short story called Ah, Sweet Mystery Of Life. Apparently, if you face a cow towards the sun during mating, the sun exerts a pull on 'female sperm' and helps them to win the race.

I think you'd be better trying that scam someone did many years ago, 40s/50s?
They put notices in several national newspapaers saying that if you sent them 5 then they could tell you which sex you were pg with, money back if wrong.
They made a packet as half the time they were right, and lots of the wrong ones didn't bother claiming back wither.

Oh I can't be bothered to figure mine out then - but technically I ovulated at some point in 2009 and had one baby boy in 2010 and am about to have a baby girl from the same 'ovulation' in 2014, so that would seem to suggest it doesn't work.

It couldn't work if you ask me. You'd get blocks of more girls than boys and vice versa otherwise, in a pattern which would be fairly obvious and identifiable.

Then as someone else pointed out, twins don't work.

all cobblers.

gender determined by sperm.

end of.

Of course the sex is determined by the sperm. Duh. I did listen in biology, honest!

I conceived a boy a couple of days after the dark moon...

DD should be DS.

OP here is terminology for you: the moon getting bigger is called waxing

Moon getting smaller is called waning