What was your method

Goldsgirl9

Curious if anyone tried any methods for conceiving a specific gender (and whether or not it worked) or if you let go and let God.

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Helenahhandbasket

Kimbus22 said:

I tried boning.

Dressed like a pirate bent over a chair got me a boy.

Missionary and drunk off leftover margaritas from the boy's birthday party got me a girl.

I am strangely turned on by you right now, @kimbus22

TRP85

Goldsgirl9 said:

Curious if anyone tried any methods for conceiving a specific gender (and whether or not it worked) or if you let go and let God.

Huh?

DebateThis

Goldsgirl9 said:

Curious if anyone tried any methods for conceiving a specific gender (and whether or not it worked) or if you let go and let God.

QFP.

I tried having SEX to conceive a child and didn't GAF which genitals said child wound up with. When that didn't work, I let go and let science.

MKM2014

I haven't, won't, and don't have a preference

BUT

I will tell you that as far as I know the findings of Shettles research haven't been reproduced. I had a friend who tried this method and when she explained it to me I thought "there's no way" & a little research confirmed that suspicion. Since she told me about this after having conceived, I chose not to throw that information back in her face (she didn't get the sex she wanted btw) but since you're asking...

It's pretty much a 50/50 shot, short of medical intervention.

You get what you get and you don't throw a fit!

Although I've never understood having such a strong preference, you will find lots of threads online about "gender disappointment" (although gender isn't the correct term from a sociological perspective that is a common term & if you google sex disappointment I don't think you'll come up with what you're looking for!)

I would suggest that you work to get yourself to a point where you're 100% okay with either a boy or a girl before TTC. Otherwise, you're going to feel pretty guilty for feeling any disappointment if you don't win that coin toss.

Weezy56

No, because those "methods" are garbage.

sandrabrooke

I will be happy either way when I get pregnant. 

So yes, my method will work.  

Mysterious_wife

I have typed a response and deleted it multiple times. I can't with this bullshit.

KatieFNP1984

I wasn't charting the cycle we conceived but we had intercourse on day 14 of my cycle and gave "the shuttles method" a shot. Either we got lucky or it worked but we're having a boy. We're thankful we got pregnant at all!

Twinkie0612

Since we are doing IVF with ICSI (where the embryologist injects a single sperm into each egg)and the resulting sex depends on which sperm fertilizes the egg (an X or a Y chromosome sperm), I guess I am letting the embryologist decide...

mnmz

We decided we'd be happy with either so we tried everyway possible (including shooting myself up with some very expensive fertility drugs, an IUI, and multiple sexual positions over the course of several days before and after ovulation).

I ended up with twins - a boy and a girl. Therefore all of those old wives tales about how to get what must be legit.

jensavicci

Paint a pumpkin seed either blue (for boys duh cause only boys can like blue) or pink (because girls can only like pink). Then, place it in your belly button. If you have an outie, tape it to your outie. Once you're done, paint your whole stomach and face blue or pink. If you use any other color, you might get an alien baby. Then, spin around 10 times but counting backwards from 10 to 1. Once you're good and Dizzy, run outside and scream "I WANT A BOY/GIRL!!!". Make sure there's lots of ppl around. It's so much better with a lot of ppl around.

sandrabrooke

14whitney said:

Paint a pumpkin seed either blue (for boys duh cause only boys can like blue) or pink (because girls can only like pink). Then, place it in your belly button. If you have an outie, tape it to your outie. Once you're done, paint your whole stomach and face blue or pink. If you use any other color, you might get an alien baby. Then, spin around 10 times but counting backwards from 10 to 1. Once you're good and Dizzy, run outside and scream "I WANT A BOY/GIRL!!!". Make sure there's lots of ppl around. It's so much better with a lot of ppl around.

You left out the part about recording it. That's the only way.

You also need to wrack up at least 10,000 views on Youtube to encourage the right gender to grow..

MoseyAnkles

I believe the only way to guarantee that you will get a girl is if you harvest one of your eggs, prick the surface with a very small needle (in other words, no sperm is used in the making of this embryo), and then put the zygote into your uterus. If all of this is successful thus far (and it's unlikely), the zygote may or may not implant. Assuming you carried to term, you would be giving birth to your genetic clone, and this bouncing baby girl would be sterile. Congrats!....or you could just knock nuts with a man who contains sperm and if you're lucky you will end up with a tiny human.

DebateThis

MoseyAnkles said:

I believe the only way to guarantee that you will get a girl is if you harvest one of your eggs, prick the surface with a very small needle (in other words, no sperm is used in the making of this embryo), and then put the zygote into your uterus. If all of this is successful thus far (and it's unlikely), the zygote may or may not implant. Assuming you carried to term, you would be giving birth to your genetic clone, and this bouncing baby girl would be sterile. Congrats!....or you could just knock nuts with a man who contains sperm and if you're lucky you will end up with a tiny human.

I have been through egg retrieval for IVF and also have a vivid imagination. The mental pictures I am having right now are awesome. Or horrifying. Take your pick.