Does this really influence sex?!

[Cinderellashoes]

Was speaking with a friend who has two girls and a boy. She swears blindly that she had girls because she and her husband only dtd a couple of days before ovulation. Apparently this causes the male sperm to die off and the females are left to fertilise the egg?! I didn’t think there was anything in it myself - but I do have two boys and I did only dtd on ovulation day with both of them!! Just interested to hear others experiences as I’d never heard of this before!!
Also to add I am VERY happy with my two boys and would love another baby of either sex

I don't know the science exactly but I don't think there are male sperm and female sperm. As far as I know, women's eggs have XX (girl) chromosomes and sperm has XY (boy) chromosomes. When they combine, one 2 of the chromosomes are dropped, leaving either XX or XY

Mmm almost but not quite! Humans have 23 pairs of chromosomes (diploid) and our reproductive cells (egg and sperm) each have one set of 23 chromosomes (haploid). Those come together to create a baby with 23 pairs of ch.
Egg haploid +sperm haploid = fertalized egg (diploid).
Whether or not a child has a male or remale reproductive sex depends on whether the sperm includes a 'Y' chromosomes - as females only have 'X' chromosomes.

As for being able to determine the gender of your child based on when you have sex:

It's been studied and there is no morphological difference in sperm. The timing methods which claim you can choose gender have also been studied and found to have no influence. With babies its pretty easy to think 'I got a girl/boy because I did X' but it's actually because there is really just a 50/50 chance either way.

Christmasjumpers sorry that is not correct. Sperm are either male or female and carry either a male chromosome (y) or female chromosome (x). The egg always carries the X chromosome. So if a y sperm fertilises the egg this results in a male baby (xy), if a X chromosome fertilises the egg then a female (xx) baby is conceived.
Male sperm generally swim faster than female carrying sperm however they also tend to die before the female sperm. It was due to this that it was claimed you could influence the sex of your baby by how you timed sexual intercourse. A quick google reports studies do not support this theory.

This worked for me 3 times

Hmm a mixed bag! I did Google this but found all sorts. Mainly the Shettles method but also eating certain foods to affect the ph of the vagina I had honestly never heard of such a thing.. I just wondered if this was a thing or whether my friends ‘evidence’ was anecdotal!

I dunno but my sister (an organised woman) bought an ovulation kit and got pregnant w nephew first go. She told me after that she discovered XY sperm swim faster but XX sperm last longer so second time she timed sex after ovulation, it took 2 months that time, but she had a girl.

No idea if it’s bullshit but my sis quite sensible so my guess is there is some basis in fact, even if quite minimal.

Well, all I can say is that all three of my children were conceived on the day of ovulation (in the 90s before ovulation tests were around, but I'm as sure as I can be) and all three are boys. Which was just fine by me.

Yes it’s the Shettles method, isn’t it? Female sperm swims slower but lasts longer so to get a girl have sex 2-3 days before you ovulate. To get a boy, have sex at the time of ovulation or soon after.

If you’re interested in ‘swaying’ as the saying goes, there’s whole websites dedicated to it (ingender I think it’s called) including what to eat/not eat etc. Not my thing but then I had DD then was lucky enough to have 2 DSs so I wasn’t ever desperate for a boy or girl so who know how I’d have felt if the younger ones had also been girls.

I have two DD’s and looked into this before ttc. We only dtd twice on the day of ovulation as I read that it needs to be as close to ovulation as possible as the male sperms don’t last as long and are now expecting a DS. Not sure if the theory worked but I like to think it did

Well now I feel silly 😳 sorry OP I stand corrected!

Ooh nope not interested in swaying I don’t believe in hoping for one or the other I think you get given what you need which is certainly true in my case!! I just can’t believe I hadn’t heard of this before!!
Surely though if you try for a girl and only dtd days before ovulation you are decreasing your chances of a pregnancy?