How to conceive a girl.......

Miss_Cinnabon

I would love a little girl but 3 boys later no such luck:rotfl: there is no guarantee what it will be is there? 50/50 chance really!:D i was a vegan when i had my first but it was still a boy, so that method is out, not that im trying just now:eek: just saying lol.

Good luck to your freind though.

Kyle

thriftlady_2

alm721 wrote: »

I think, girl sperms are supposed to be more likely to survive longer/swim furthur then male sperm so you are slightly more likely to get a girl if you have sex a couple of days before ovulation as male sperms die sooner so more likely to be more girl sperms left to fertilise the egg when its released. Conversley male sperms generally swim faster then girl sperms (I think due to slight size difference) so if you have sex as you ovulate there is more chance of a male sperm getting there first as they are a bit quicker.
Obviously this relies on knowing exactly when you ovulate so plotting bbt for a few months before trying to get pregnant would not be a bad idea.
No guarantees though!

This is my understanding too, and is how I think we conceived a girl after two boys. Seven years later I have to admit that 3 boys would have been so much easier :rolleyes: bless her.

Carmina_Piranha_3

off topic but when i was pregnant everyone assumed that since i had 2 boys i desperately wanted a girl this time. i said no, i thought another boy would be easier i lost the baby and don't know the sex but it seemed like everyone i met loudly voiced their opinion that i MUST want a girl this time.

i'd hate for any child of mine to hear that i was disappointed when they were born/sexed during a scan. on the IVF programme (called against all odds) i felt (i know it was probably edited that way) that the couple trying for a girl abroad really didn't want their littlest boys, they said how they'd tried all these methods but still they came out as boys.

maybe i just don't understand it because i haven't felt very strongly either way about what sex children i have, but if people desperately want a child to be a certain sex would they also be disappointed if the child had big ears, ginger hair (there was a recent thread), her father's nose etc?

ben500

Carmina_Piranha wrote: »

off topic but when i was pregnant everyone assumed that since i had 2 boys i desperately wanted a girl this time. i said no, i thought another boy would be easier i lost the baby and don't know the sex but it seemed like everyone i met loudly voiced their opinion that i MUST want a girl this time.

i'd hate for any child of mine to hear that i was disappointed when they were born/sexed during a scan. on the IVF programme (called against all odds) i felt (i know it was probably edited that way) that the couple trying for a girl abroad really didn't want their littlest boys, they said how they'd tried all these methods but still they came out as boys.

maybe i just don't understand it because i haven't felt very strongly either way about what sex children i have, but if people desperately want a child to be a certain sex would they also be disappointed if the child had big ears, ginger hair (there was a recent thread), her father's nose etc?

I have five boys and the same thoughts were with me with the birth of each one, eyes, ears, fingers, toes and lungs are they there and working the last thought was genitalia

ysoskint

my parents wanted a boy. after 5 daughters they stopped. my youngest sister is aware of my dad's disappointment that she wasn't a boy. Not that he ever said, but grandparents do, neighbours do, aunties do, friends do & their children do. It has deeply scarred her and she is a grown woman now.

Be thankful for what you are blessed with. My three are the same sex. We can't have anymore (snip snip). Nothing makes my skin crawl more than hearing someone say..."bet you wish you had a girl".

Avoriaz

LouBlue wrote: »

..I've known more than one person to try for a certain sex by doing different things and 99% of the time, didn't work…

Surely that should be 50% of the time.

Otherwise, if there is a 99% failure rate, just do the opposite of what you are supposed to do.

If you want a girl, do what you are supposed to do to get a boy and, with 99% failure rate, you should get a girl 99% of the time.

Avoriaz

LouBlue wrote: »

.. Hope she just has a healthy child whatever the sex.. :beer:

The quality of the sex has no bearing on the gender of the child.

Avoriaz

That reminds me of the story of the couple who had girl after girl after girl. They were very happy with their growing family but really did want to have a boy.

Eventually, after 9 girls, child number ten was born and it was a boy.

The celebrations went on for hours, apart from exhausted Mum of course, and Dad was telling anyone and everyone who would listen about his baby son. “My boy is going to be this.” “My boy is going to do that “ etc.

The next morning a family friend arrived to congratulate Mum and Dad..

“Well, what does the new little boy look like” he said.

Dad replied, “Oh we don’t know, we haven’t looked at his face yet”.