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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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I tried to sway girl and it worked!

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Goodnewsday · 07/03/2023 22:40

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?

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Palmfrond · 08/03/2023 18:39

CorsicaDreaming · 08/03/2023 11:02

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.

Nope.

science thing

UnaVaca · 08/03/2023 18:41

What a load of shite!

FrownedUpon · 08/03/2023 18:56

It’s a load of crap. Do people actually believe this is a thing?

Nimbostratus100 · 08/03/2023 19:04

Twoinapod · 08/03/2023 13:10

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.

There is no science behind it, this is all completely nonsense

Nimbostratus100 · 08/03/2023 19:05

CorsicaDreaming · 08/03/2023 11:02

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.

No, there is nothing in it, this is total pseudoscientific gibberish

TeamBluex4 · 08/03/2023 19:31

seeing threads like these are so annoying brings back to me what a sonographer once said to me last year (probs even more bullsh*t but that's for a new thread!) Anyway, me & my partner have had 3 boys in a row then followed by 3 recurrent miscarriages, then our latest miracle (only 15 weeks old) is yes, another BOY!.. It's all down to a man's sperm end of or... who knows?.. could be down to the finishing position ;) was doggy style for all my boys that I do know!😂

CorsicaDreaming · 08/03/2023 19:47

@Nimbostratus100 - interesting article in bmj...

www.bmj.com/rapid-response/2011/10/31/entrenched-misinformation-about-x-and-y-sperm

Misinformation agreed - I live to stand corrected and learn something new every day! - but also something weird about v long time to first pregnancy and more likely to have a boy...

Dominoeffecter · 08/03/2023 19:50

Congratulations. It didn’t ‘work’ though but I’m sure you know that

Nimbostratus100 · 08/03/2023 19:51

CorsicaDreaming · 08/03/2023 19:47

@Nimbostratus100 - interesting article in bmj...

www.bmj.com/rapid-response/2011/10/31/entrenched-misinformation-about-x-and-y-sperm

Misinformation agreed - I live to stand corrected and learn something new every day! - but also something weird about v long time to first pregnancy and more likely to have a boy...

also the age old belief that wars cause more male births..
the best theory I have heard about this is that more boys are conceived, and more boys are miscarried, but in a war situation, something changes in the woman's body to somehow protect more pregnancies, which would favour boys, as they are the ones that are lost more often

CorsicaDreaming · 08/03/2023 19:55

@Palmfrond - but they say the methodology and data is impressive- they are just dismissive of linking it to Shettles work...

I just love the way modern western medicine dismisses everything as wrong just because it's not Western (acupuncture for many, many years) or we don't fully understand it yet (think microbiology and many women dying of septicaemia shortly after childbirth as surgeons would go straight from autopsy to examine them in the - not so distant - past...)

Whereas now, of course, western medicine knows everything about anything - and can protect this knowledge by scientific scoffing,,,

I'm not saying the OP got it right, I do think there's probability of a lot more to it than we currently know.

CorsicaDreaming · 08/03/2023 19:57

@Nimbostratus100 - I wonder if high levels of cortisol produces more boys?

CorsicaDreaming · 08/03/2023 19:58

I've heard that levels of protein in diet can affect it - can't remember the full theory. More protein = more males produced I think 🤔

HiImTheProblemItsMe · 08/03/2023 20:04

Yeah shettles has been thoroughly debunked. I'm amazed people still believe in it. Also another one here who was told girl at 20 weeks but went on to have a boy! And this wasn't yonks ago either - he's only 3 now. Just keep in mind scans aren't 100%.

Palmfrond · 08/03/2023 20:06

CorsicaDreaming · 08/03/2023 19:55

@Palmfrond - but they say the methodology and data is impressive- they are just dismissive of linking it to Shettles work...

I just love the way modern western medicine dismisses everything as wrong just because it's not Western (acupuncture for many, many years) or we don't fully understand it yet (think microbiology and many women dying of septicaemia shortly after childbirth as surgeons would go straight from autopsy to examine them in the - not so distant - past...)

Whereas now, of course, western medicine knows everything about anything - and can protect this knowledge by scientific scoffing,,,

I'm not saying the OP got it right, I do think there's probability of a lot more to it than we currently know.

??? They say the methodology and data are impressive, by based on flawed ideas about sperm speed/motility or whatever it’s called?
Im not sure what your saying about western science either? Shettles and as far as I can tell everyone else cited in either of those abstracts are “western” scientists.

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