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When's the best time to get pregnant? Use our interactive ovulation calculator to work out when you're most fertile and most likely to conceive.

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TTC A GIRL!!

66 replies

sweetbean · 09/01/2007 08:17

hello just a quick question has anyone got any advise on conving a girl as have been looking on the net and it seems that you always have to but the b*^&%£d book! so i was just hoping that some one had some advice or knows of a good web site.

Thanks for any replys xxxxxxx

OP posts:
LieselVonTrapp · 09/01/2007 12:11

I don know about all that stuff and personally I wouldnt want to

FioFio · 09/01/2007 12:12

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LieselVonTrapp · 09/01/2007 12:17

That would be fab

PoppiesMum · 09/01/2007 12:18

The only thing I've heard is that sperm at higher temps tend to produce girls! Dh is a baker and has 2 dd's so it must be true!

crazylazydaisy · 09/01/2007 12:36

No scientific facts here, just my experience for what its worth! Have 3 older girls and my diet at that time was lots of dairy/pasta not much meat then became a veggy so mainly quorn. Then we decided to have 2 more children and i had stopped being a veggy so had lots of fish, steak, bacon and we had 2 boys within 2 years! Copious amounts of choc all the way through so you dont have to give that up

JARM · 09/01/2007 12:39

the heat thing is interesting, i have 2 girls and DH is a chef!

JARM · 09/01/2007 12:39

the heat thing is interesting, i have 2 girls and DH is a chef!

wannaBeWhateverIWannaBe · 09/01/2007 12:42

there are countless posts on here from people who did the "right things" to conceive the sex of their choice and conceived the opposite, there is no proven way to conceive one or the other - primarily it is down to luck and which sperm survives - i.e. the male or female one.

Will you be happy even if you conceive a boy?

PoppiesMum · 09/01/2007 12:45

Jarm - Gordon Ramsay has 3 girls!!!!

krabbiepatty · 09/01/2007 12:47

v limited sample (myself~) suggest there is something in the timing thing - ie if you ttc some time before ovulation might get a girl.

mellowma · 09/01/2007 12:49

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fuzzywuzzy · 09/01/2007 12:50

Jamie Oliver has two girls as well doesn't he?? The caterig manager where I work has three girls.

PoppiesMum · 09/01/2007 12:51

Get him to cook supper and then jump on him afterwards??

PoppiesMum · 09/01/2007 12:52

I would like a boy next, so I'm considering getting dh transfered to the frozen section!

katzg · 09/01/2007 12:52

my father is convinced that girls are concieved in bed and boys else where! think this is mainly to wind me up!

Ready · 09/01/2007 13:22

katzg - I love that theory !

I have heard that the boy sperm swims faster but dies quicker... the girl sperm lives longer but is slower... so the theory goes that if you have sex a few days before OV you are more likely to have a girl and if you have sex on OV day you are more likely to have a boy.

I really don't believe that there are any steadfast methods to determining the sex of your baby. The gift of a baby is what is important?? Or am I missing something??

scorpio1 · 09/01/2007 14:06

this and good luck

Peridot30 · 09/01/2007 14:25

Take what you are given and be thankful!

MUSA · 09/01/2007 15:28

Should'nt you be more worried about having a healthy child, then worrying about the sex of the baby. sorry don't mean to have a go at you.

But there are so many parents on mumsnet including myself who have a child with sn, and then there are people who want one particular sex, like peridot30 says be gratful there are people that can't even have children.

All children are so precious with sn and without sn, boy or girl.

fennel · 09/01/2007 15:30

lots of cycling (for the man) in lycra shorts and lots of wetsuit-wearing watersports.

am mother of 3 girls, and DP is keen windsurfer and cyclist.

PoppiesMum · 09/01/2007 15:56

MUSA and Peridot30 - I completely understand your posts, but I don't think for one moment that anyone posting here would love their child any less if it was a boy and they wanted a girl (or vice versa). All children are precious & special. I get the feeling that the posts on here are said in a jokey, tongue in cheek way as a bit of fun - after all, there is no way to determine which of his little swimmers will get to that egg first!

honeyapple · 09/01/2007 16:06

Of course all babies are special, whatever the sex... but if you have 3 boys and would like a girl- where is the harm in trying to do something about it! Providing another boy wouldnt we unwelcome...
Goodness me! Loosen up!

Overrun · 09/01/2007 16:17

MUSA and Peridot30 I think you are being pretty rude actually. I had all this thrown at me when I dared to be upset when already having a ds I found out both dts were boys.
I really think that people can have a marked preference for gender, and that this is turn doesn't mean that they are careless about wanting their child to be in good health or that they want a designer baby.

NotAnOtter · 09/01/2007 16:18

agree overrun....we are allowed to dream!

Overrun · 09/01/2007 16:40

Thanks NotAnotter, its perfectly natural to have opinons/dreams/preferences about your childrens gender.