Sway the sex - did you do it/did it work?!

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This is just a bit of fun because I'm bored & to distract me from one of those irrationally emotional days!

I may have taken cranberry supplements when TTC to sway things in favour of a girl (which has DP convinced it will be a boy to teach me a lesson).

Am a long way off knowing if my efforts have succeeded but was wondering is anyone else had done anything similar & more to the point did it work?!

Well, seeing as how it's the sperm that determines the sex, nothing you do will affect it

No but the theory is its supposed to make things in there favour the X or Y sperm like acidic is supposed to favour the X as the Y sperm don't live very long in acidic conditions (which) the cranberry is meant to do, change the PH down there, and visa versa for the Y sperm. X also live longer then the Y apparantly so they say to DTD further away from ov and closer for a boy. BUT I don't put much stock into this tbh I just think you get what your get. I'm having my 3rd boy and although I wasn't ttc I was drinking.plenty of cranberry before I concieved as I like it lol. And I only dtd few days prior to ov mines still a boy :)

I think the idea is its supposed to make the environment more hospitable to the X swimmers as they are more robust than the Y, in the unlikely event that such a thing is possible. Like I said just a bit of fun

Haha dammit, DP could well be right then!

No harm in trying though some people do sway n get there desired sex but I just think its more coincidence really but hey u never know. My dp has got an all male family so even if I swayed etc id be very likely to get boys still. But I'm very happy with my 2 boys and lil boy I'm having they are lil characters :)

Well he's in the boy camp and I'm in the girl camp but as long as its healthy we'll be thrilled with whatever. It's all 50/50 in his family so could go either way, though I'm sure if its a girl I'll SWEAR it was the cranberry haha.

I'm sure it's all rubbish but we sort of tried the Dr Shettles method and it 'worked'

We have 1 DD and I'm expecting another...

But I'm pretty sure it's just 50/50

I ate loads of sweet potato while ttc and I'm having a girl so it worked for me

If its mainly 50 50 in his family then thats good :) dp is 1 of 4 boys his father comes from 13 children (11 boys and only 2 girls) all dps brothers have boys and we have boys Haha

I just looked up Dr Shettles Method & think I may have inadvertently levelled the playing field so it looks as though its game on! I like sweet potato too so I missed a trick there.

Shettles V Cranberry V It's all BS anyway

beckie90 it sounds like you were at an unfair disadvantage really so we'll not count out the cranberry just yet

Entirely unintentionally but I reads that the closer to ovulation you DTD, the more male sperm (fast swimming, but short lv

Entirely unintentionally but I reads that the closer to ovulation you DTD, the more male sperm (fast swimming, but short living) are likely to succeed, and if you DTD a few days before the female sperm (slow swimming, longer living) are more likely to 'win'!

I am fairly sure we DTD the morning before I ovulated (only because I got a huge headache that afternoon) so the males should have been in with a chance, but we're having a girl!

(Oops sorry if that posted twice!)

I decided that even if it might take longer to fall preggers with baby number 2, it was worth giving it a shot to conceive a girl... So we did not have sex when I was ovulating (the window during which an ovulation test proves positive) and only Dtd a few days before. Fell pregnant in 4 months with a girl... Something about the female sperm living longer?

Shettles worked for me! I know it's probably just 50/50 though!

But the odds are 50/50 (or 55/45) for each pregnancy, so it doesn't matter what families are like or what kids you've already got. How would the sperm know what the others were?!

Chellonian if you do look it up though some familys do have a gender run in the family Like I said dps farther who is 60 there is 11 boys and only 2 girls in his siblings, there has been no more girls since that time been born, this is my partners 4th boy. Each time u have the same sex gender the odd of getting the opposite decreases, only ever so slightly, the actual statistics to start off with are 51/49. 51 been the boys. I've done a whole lot of reading up on this as I'm aware of dps family tree.

If it runs in the family they must just produce more of one than the other I presume.

I have to say I'm preferring the Shettles didn't work stories seems as by my dates I was likely OV on Valentines day, needless to say we dtd - all that cranberry wasted lol.

Saying that it seems to be 50/50 for who it worked for so that probably says it all!

Obviously every man produces female and male sperm but I do think some people may have a different quantity of one to the other like I've seen people with 8 girls also vica versa, however it isn't that common, most people do have a mixed family ratio (mine is, just dps isn't) obviously if I Carried on going I would get a girl somewere down the line, the question is where down the line Haha? On a site it is claimed that after 3 boys the chance of a girl is 43% so 57% for boy, it doesn't go to 4 boys though but presume its around 40/60. I'm very content with the boys though so this ones my last. Hope you get your girl hun x

I have a large extended family, (4 sisters + 35 cousins) of the last 80 births only 3 have been boys!!!! no surprise i'm having a DD (no 3)