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Shettle's method. how did it work for u?

The theory is that boy sperm swim faster, and girl sperm live longer. Say you had sex 3 days before you ovulated, chances are more likely you'd have a girl. Sex ONLY on the day of O would suggest a boy.

I'm just curious to find out from you guys (because I'm sure most of you know what you're having) what was your experience with this? Just trying to see how accurate this method really is.

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Re: Shettle's method. how did it work for u?

  • I'm curious too...

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  • Proved to be true in our instance...were having a boy and had sex 3 times within the day we O'd...
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  • We just went crazy like little rabbits so no clue what day we got pregnant!
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  • imageanabell0920:
    We just went crazy like little rabbits so no clue what day we got pregnant!

    This is what I meant to say! LOL

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    imageanabell0920:
    We just went crazy like little rabbits so no clue what day we got pregnant!

    This is what I meant to say! LOL

    This!

  • We didn't try it--didn't try to get pregnant, in fact, but the only time we had unprotected sex was a Saturday evening, and I felt the little twinges of ovulation the next afternoon, so I suppose you could say it kind of worked.  I'm not sure if that's just a coincidence, though.  There's only a 50/50 chance to begin with, so it could easily have been a coincidence.
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  • I had just went off the pill, and I have no idea when I ovulated, so I can't answer this!!! My EDD from LMP is actually 2 weeks sooner than the EDD they gave from my 8week U/S. But he's measuring right on track so... I think my body is off!!!
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    We just went crazy like little rabbits so no clue what day we got pregnant!

    haha- THIS! My husband had just returned from a 14-month deployment. We were having sex about 3 times a day, every day, since the day he got home. I don't know which day was "the lucky day" but we're having a girl :o)

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    imageanabell0920:
    We just went crazy like little rabbits so no clue what day we got pregnant!

    haha- THIS! My husband had just returned from a 14-month deployment. We were having sex about 3 times a day, every day, since the day he got home. I don't know which day was "the lucky day" but we're having a girl :o)

    We didn't go through a deployment but dh had just graduated boot camp and we had just gotten to live together again. All I am gonna say is how much I LOVE his sailor uniform! lol

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  • Chinese calendar was right for us.  Shettles was wrong.
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  • imageanabell0920:
    We just went crazy like little rabbits so no clue what day we got pregnant!

    lol, ditto this for us. DH had just returned from deployment.

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  • I read about this when I started charting my periods when we first started trying.  We had sexy time on the day I ovulated (or at least thats what all the little signs you follow said like discharge and temp).  We are having a boy. 

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  • Well I was really keen for a girl so I made sure we had sex a few days before I ovulated.

    But then when it came down to it I just really wanted a baby so we had sex on the day I thought I was ovulating too. 

    We had a girl. 

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  • We had sex 4 days before ovulation and are having a boy.  Theory disproved in our case.  Not that we were trying for one or the other, but at least we can abandon false hope should we ever consider Shettles. 

    Smile 

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  • We weren't specifically using Shettles but with both pregnancies I used OPKs (my ovulation and length of cycle is all over the place) and we had sex only on the day I ovuated and the day after.  We have 2 boys so it holds true for us.

    We would like #3 to be a girl so I am going to try to use Shettles more actively - the problem I have is that because I don't know when I will ovulate it's difficult to time sex only for a few days before O.

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  • I heard Shettle's doesn't improve chances beyond 50% (same as if you didn't try at all) that said we had sex a few days before O. Then I went on a business trip - so it worked for us.
  • Totally the opposite for us. Sex 4 days before ovulation = ds. Sex day after = girl.
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  • I would guess that the theory holds true for us.  I expected to O either tues/wed of that week (not keeping track specifically), and DH wasn't coming back in town from work until thursday.  and we conceived sometime that weekend.  I thought we were going to miss out on our chances that month. Theory would say boy and we are team blue
  • Opposite for us.  We had sex 3 days prior to O and are having a boy.

  • Didn't work for us....we had sex within 24 hours of ovulation and are having a girl.  I am happy though! :)
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  • We didn't use the method for DD but in retrospect it "worked". For DS we did use Shettles and it worked then, too.
  • Not at all!  According to Shettles, I would be having a girl- we had sex 5 days before I ovulated (yes, you got that right, and then were in different states, so there was no other time that month).  I am having another boy.

     The 5 day thing did make my husband laugh and say he has "super-sperm".  (and yes, I was charting, so I know when I ovulated).

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  • Never "tried" to have a this or that sex baby. But if the theory is true, it worked both times for me. When we were trying we had sex the day I "O*ed" and got my BFP soon after & we are having a Boy. With DS#1 i know what day we had sex and I*m pretty sure that same day was the big O lol
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  • We didn't specifically use the method, but the month we got pregnant, we only made love on the day I got a positive OPK, and we're having a boy.  So, the theory holds true for us, too.
  • I guess it didn't hold true for us. We're definitely having a boy. I only know because I had been using ovulation strips and right after we had sex I went out of town. I kept using the strips and they said I ovulated 2 days afterward.





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