Anyone successful with the shettles method?

KMLP · February 2010

I am not looking to do this, but I was just reading this section in TCOYF and was curious if anyone actually practiced this. I think it would be very tricky to time it just right since you are supposed to have sex so far in advance of ovulation.

EDIT I should have said shettles method for a girl.

mrs.bridgettkay · February 2010

We weren't trying for a certain sex but I think the theory holds true in our case according to when I ovulated and the sex of our baby.

CelticWife · February 2010

I think it is true, but since DS was an accident it wasn't on purpose. (I always know when I ovulate because I cramp like crazy the day of, then my period starts 14 days later.)

It would be very hard to time for a girl, but easier to time for a boy I would think.

KittyCatBio · February 2010

we were not trying, but the theory held true for us. i was actually trying to avoid that cycle and thought we had sex early enough to not be a problem, but then i o'd a bit early. hurrah! girl.

*blondiem* · February 2010

I know of one friend that succeeded and another that didn't. I feel like after so many months of charting, I bet I could probably time it correctly. That would really test the method. Wink I am at the point where I can pinpoint ovulation almost perfectly because I am so aware.

I love that you are reading TCOYF. I still refer back to it. It's like the TTC bible It's all very fascinating to me. Smile

Alli3586 · February 2010

I don't know if it worked with DD because I didn't keep track, but we tried for a boy this time for fun and it worked! We had sex the day before and the day I O'd and we got a boy.

sblalande · February 2010

If what your asking, is what I am thinking...is this what Heidi Klum talked about this summer on Regis and Kelly? I read something on Webmd...Boy sperm die fast, girl sperm die slow...girl = sex on day 12, boy=sex on day 14 cause for a girl the boys will have already died by the time the girls reach the egg. Boys are quick and will have implanted before the girls arrive. It was true (along w/ chinese gender calendar) for us

Serendipity* · February 2010

Might be a stupid question but what it TCOYF?

Oh and we weren't trying for one or the other but had sex when I ovulated and had a boy

ETA: Nevermind, figured it out

LucyGoosey81 · February 2010

We didn't try, but for us, it wasn't accurate. We had sex 2 days before I ovulated and had a boy.

KMLP · February 2010

*blondiem*:

I know of one friend that succeeded and another that didn't. I feel like after so many months of charting, I bet I could probably time it correctly. That would really test the method. I am at the point where I can pinpoint ovulation almost perfectly because I am so aware.

I love that you are reading TCOYF. I still refer back to it. It's like the TTC bible It's all very fascinating to me.

I read it back when I was trying with Larsen and the second baby, but I never charted with either. I am charting this month and I was just refreshing my memory a bit. It is so helpful!

AnneEB · February 2010

We had sex the day I ovulated and got a boy

macchiatto · February 2010

My best friend from high school did it with both her kids and was successful both times--she had a boy first and then a girl, just like she wanted.

I do have to wonder how the Shettles method explains boy/girl multiples.

MrsG2B07 · February 2010

mrs.bridgettkay:
We weren't trying for a certain sex but I think the theory holds true in our case according to when I ovulated and the sex of our baby.

same here. I couldn't convince DH to do it the day I O'd so we had sex the day before and 2-3 days later and I got BFP that first cycle. Wink

sblalande · February 2010

yeah< i wondered about twins too......maybe one egg releases later?????

jillybean222 · February 2010

i have 2 kids...one was conceived on (or before) day 14. the other on day 18 (exactly!). i have no idea exactly when i ovulate, but i have two girls.

*NNO* · February 2010

AnneEB:
We had sex the day I ovulated and got a boy

Same here!

snowinlv · February 2010

If you have an IUI is the sperm implanted on ovulation day? If so then all of them are boys? We just had lots of sex when I thought I was ovulating and have a girl.

~CoCo~ · February 2010

We didn't try, but based on ovulation days and when we had sex, we'd have two boys (well, one on the way). We have two girls!

betsnup · February 2010

*NNO*:
AnneEB:
We had sex the day I ovulated and got a boy

Same here!

Me too - twice!

eris1995 · February 2010

We weren't trying - but it worked for DS. We had sex the day before and the day of O.

Now with this one I think it could be either. We had sex 3 days before and the day before.

~AllSmiles~ · February 2010

snowinlv:
If you have an IUI is the sperm implanted on ovulation day? If so then all of them are boys? We just had lots of sex when I thought I was ovulating and have a girl.

No, because the sperm is all injected right there... it's not traveling all the way up to the egg.

If I'm remembering correctly, the idea is that "boy" sperm travels faster, while "girl" sperm travels slower but stays around longer. So using this theory, if you have sex a couple days before O, then the "boy" sperm is already gone but the "girl" sperm is there waiting for the egg to drop. If you have sex the day of O, the "boy" sperm can get up to the egg right away, but the "girl" sperm will be too slow to get to the egg before it's gone.

Hope that makes sense.

ETA: To answer the OP, we're not sure if it worked for us or not, because we had sex almost every day leading up to O and two days after.

JessMil10 · February 2010

We didn't try the shettles method but technically it worked for us. Both times I got pregnant we had sex a few days before ovulation.

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