anyone trying to conceive a boy?

[bresha]

I have two girls and I am just starting ttc, mainly I wont a happy Healy baby but we would like a boy, I have heard of a few diy methods, has any one had any luck with these?
A part of me thinks this is morally wrong but I can help the way I feel. I would still love a girl and my oldest who keeps asking for another sister would be over the moon.
Should I just leave it to chance?

Peasmom- you have just stopped me in my tracks- went on to the chinese thing and they say that i have no hope of conceiving a boy until next Jan at the earliest... now i'm in a dither as that's 6 months away and I really wanted a summer baby having had two winter babies and been very depressed- which would mean waiting to conceive until next year at this time.. a whole year to wait on the basis of a chinese prediction.. is it that reliable???

i bought "how to choose the sex of your baby" it says to have boy have a sex once ont he day of ovualtion(which i havent clue) and man got to keep his penis cool, may be cool sponging. and woman must have orgasm first. thats it, sounds so simple. if it really works?

It will work half the time!

yummummy, really don't worry about it.

What if you waited, then had a girl?

Still uneasy about this whole thing though, really.

chinese one is totally different, you got to add one year on your ages, or two years if your bday is in mid february.

Then think of the number you first thought of, double it and add six.

Honestly, it's all tosh.

diva - yes hon i'd recommend it if u're ttc. (persona that is) we got PG with Joey after bd'ing on CD 12 15/16 I think it was something like that and I oved on 14. althou I did use it for about 6 months b4 I caught from it.

by BD I mena sex and CD is cycle day.

ooh and the chinese calender thingy - one said a boy 2 said girls so don't go in for those!

Hunkermunker- thanks for that moment of sanity.. honestly I think I've turned into some kind of nutcase..I am the least superstitious person you'd ever meet and usually not gullible at all so I have no idea why I went on those chinese sites.... I'm just so stressed about the whole thing.. still not even sure I want a third at all..don't find having two DDs easy at all although adore the pants off them- just keep thinking about having a boy. Of course if I did have another girl I'd adore her too- just worried about making DD2 the middle girl of 3- my friend is one and she went completely off the rails.. is it better to stick with the gorgeous two and forget all hopes of a son rather than upset the apple cart?

yummummy, how old are they, how old are you? Can you wait another year, see how they are when they're a bit older?

I've two boys, a 2yo and a nearly 6mo and I'm not sure whether I'll have another - but I do know that I don't want another till these boys are older - I've done a small gap, love it, wouldn't change it - but want to see what it's like to have a big gap, if I do have another one.

The Chinese calendar stuff, all the "oh, if you don't fart for a week you'll have a boy", "if you eat ear wax after every meal and stick a leprechaun up your fanny, you'll have a girl" stuff is tosh, IMO.

It's like the old wives tales about carrying out front meaning you're having a boy (though some say a girl), craving oranges meaning a boy (or was it a girl), etc, etc.

Whatever you have, it's right for your family.

Good luck - and don't overthink it

hunkermunker,
i agree with you. i dont believe in old wives tale. i craved gurkhens and vinegar whole pregnancy i had girl, everything was predicting boy. i would love to have boy and i want it happen naturally, dh recently suggested IVF, but i dont want it. any tips of mother of boys??

have just found this. Didn't think this was possible yet tho?

i ate lots of meat! (and have 2 boys)

bresha just like me i have 2 girls and would just love a boy

Hunkermunker- I'm early 30s and DD1 is nearly 4 and DD2 nearly 2, but I'm currently a SAHM and intend to be until smalls start school- another issue as I'm desperate to get back to work too- very difficult for me to do my job part time at the mo hence decision to be SAHM- so leaving it more years to have another one makes it a longer time until I can return to work which I loved, if you see what I mean... but there's no way I could have done another 2 yr gap- found it really hard and still feel guilty about suddenly making DD1's idyllic life so disrupted with nightmare baby taking all my time for 6 months if not more.. poor thing. At least now they love each other to bits and play brilliantly.. again, we seem to have such a nice status quo my DH thinks we'd be mad to "ruin it" with another.. I think he's more worried about money too- new car etc etc.. life seems geared up for two.. SIGH

Personally, I don't think that trying to conceive one or other gender is distasteful so long as you treat it as a bit of fun and will love the baby whatever. If you will be disappointed in the result, don't have another child. With any of the "scientific" methods you can only tip the odds one way or another - you can't guarantee anything.

The chinese predictor thing is a load of tripe. It's right about 50% of the time. Like most other non-scientific old wives' tales. I could tell you to have sex only on thursdays when the moon is 1/4 full to conceive a boy and I'd still be right about 50% of the time.

FWIW, I have 2 DSs exactly 2 years apart. And a DD nearly 5 years younger than DS2. Blimey she's been a shock compared to boys

diva - also ate loads of meat with Joey had sex on the afformentioned days. and I have a theory.

(only form the mate's on here and my mate who's PG)

women carrying boys have v errotic dreams those with girls don't. also girls = mega sickness boys = not too bad.