I tried to sway girl and it worked!

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I know gender swaying is so controversial but I’m purely posting this here for anyone who (like me last year) doesn’t know much about it and might want to give it a go. It’s just a bit of fun and doesn’t guarantee anything. Ultimately a healthy baby is all anyone wants, please scroll past if this is triggering in anyway to you.

We have a little boy already, who was conceived on ovulation day. I didn’t know anything about gender swaying at the time but according to the shettles/baby dust methods this would be likely to sway boy. This time we thought it might be nice to sway our odds the other way although would have been lovely to have either (and will hopefully have three kids so would be delighted regardless).

We tried for three months with a 2-3 day ‘cut off’ as the baby dust method suggests. So you have sex 2 or 3 days before ovulation, just one attempt on one day then stop. Clearly after 3 months this wasn’t working and the baby dust method suggests then going closer to ovulation but instead I decided to do a bit of the shettles method and try every day in row then stop and have the same 2 and a half day cut off. So we ‘tried’ three nights in a row then stopped.

It worked! I’ve had it confirmed this week, it’s a girl! 💕 Has anyone else tried it? Did it work for you?

Did MN really just blame rape and abortion laws on someone who thinks they influenced the sex of their baby? 😂

You can't just go round saying something worked and then tell people they can't challenge this. That's not how science works.

Using this theory, basically most assisted conceptions would produce biologically male offspring. That’s not the case though, so this is twaddle. It’s a 50/50 basically but moreso influenced by sex chromosomes present in sperm.

I feel like you're taking the p*ss with this post just to wind people up (seems like it's working!). Believe what you want to believe of course, but deep down surely know know this is nonsense! Of course you can't sway what sex your baby is going to be🤣

Totally surprised by the stories of people 'trying' for girls rather than boys.

Not.

It's always 50/50.

I'm so intrigued with this, because there does seem 80% success rate in the Facebook groups etc.

I personally couldn't be arsed timing sex but it's an interesting theory, the shettles/babydust thing.

I have 3 sons and I'm pregnant with a daughter and I did conceive her days before ovulation, but that wasn't planned, I was just too tired to try during ovulation 🤣

I'm terrified about being a girl mum, excited but so nervous! Glad you're happy OP, it's lovely news x

It is not an interesting theory.

I worry about how people choose to waste their perfectly decent brains on absolute nonsense!

@Lwrenagain
“I’m so intrigued with this, because there does seem 80% success rate in the Facebook groups etc.”

That’d be a self selecting group though, ie the people for whom it didn’t work would be less likely to report back when they realised it’s a load of bollox.

I'm sure Dr Shettles would never recover from the heartache that you don't find his theory remotely interesting.

Biologically surely there is something in this?

X chromosome are heavier than Y chromosome (they literally are shaped like an X with additional sequencing)

So Y chromosome carrying sperm can swim faster and reach the egg quicker, and the X come along 24-48 hours later.

So if you can accurately predict ovulation and thus the moment the egg's surface is ripe to receive the male sperm, you can try and ensure it is more likely there will be more X or Y carrying sperm at the site at that time (as the Y ones will have swum down the fallopian tubes faster).

There are a number of variables, so it's not a foolproof method, but there's definitely something in it.

Congratulations on your girl (which your gender swaying practices had zero influence over)

What have I just read 🤣

I think it’s crap. I conceived my babies at different points in my cycle. One 5-6 days before ovulation. One the day of or after. I know when we conceived because we only did it once. And was temping. They’re both boys.

This is even more nonsense than what OP is talking about!

I should add we weren’t trying for a particular sex.

What about putting a conker in each corner of the bedroom? I'm pretty sure that does something or other.

Isnt that to deter spiders?

OP came on to post rubbish, I can’t see a problem with someone pointing out that she’s simply wrong.

In fact I think people have a duty to explain the probability of conceiving a particular sex, so she doesn’t spread the rubbish about more …

Male spiders, I think.

Well I'm part of a set of boy/girl twins so did my mum do a sway or a full on twerk 🤣😂🤣

Same thing happened to my sister and one of her friends!

Everyone is being very rude on here. There is some science behind it in that male sperm is faster and weaker whereas female sperm is slower but stronger. So theoretically if you give it a few days before ovulation then some of the male sperm might have died off. But it’s going to completely depend on each lot of sperm and which one gets there first. You might be able to tilt the odds slightly one way or the other but not enough to call it a reliable method.

TTC can be long and emotional so if this helps people focus on something else then good on them I say.

TTC can be long and emotional so if this helps people focus on something else then good on them I say

Till they find out they are expecting a boy then the thread about Gender disappointment appears.

@ZeroFuchsGiven but OP did say they’d be happy with either and that they’re just trying to sway the odds so I think they’re fully aware this isn’t a guarantee and we’re prepared that it might not have worked so wouldn’t have been disappointed.