Whelan method

This is another method that provides directions on how to select the sex of your baby. Whelan believes that your chances for conceiving a baby girl is much better when it is done as close to ovulation so is basically the exact opposite of the Shettles method.
The idea of this method is based on timing of intercourse. You should have sex 4-6 days before ovulation if you want to have a boy, and 2-3 days before ovulation for a girl. You can chart your BBT and use ovulation kits to determinate when you ovulate. Trying different positions may also raise the accuracy. Dr. Whealn recommends that your diet should be high in calcium and magnesium but low in salt and potassium if you want to conceive a girl.
The Whelan method is about 68% accurate for conceiving boys, and 57% accurate for baby girls.
Although not as popular as the Shettles method, both have about the same rate of accuracy.

Critics of her method say that her recommended times of having intercourse before ovulation is too far away to even get pregnant. However, there are many people that say that this method worked for them.

 Here is the link to Dr. Elizabeth Whelan book "Boy or girl":




















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What should I eat to concieve a girl?

Following a specific diet for at least few weeks before conceiving you could increase your chances of having a girl. Switching your diet changes the pH balance in your body. The theory is that an acidic environment kills male-producing sperm, so female-producing sperm have a better chance of making it to the egg. Your diet should be high in calcium and magnesium but low in salt and potassium if you want to conceive a girl.

"GIRL DIET"
Lots of calcium (milk, yogurt, etc.)
Low salt intake
Low caffeine

Meat: chicken, lamb
Fish: poached in 500 ml water to reduce sodium
Eggs
Bread: low salt content (less than 1%), white has less potassium
Pasta: look for calcium fortified pasta
Rice: brown or white
Vegetables: carrots, peas, green beans, onion, leeks, cucumbers, radishes, green/red peppers, celery, eggplant, fresh asparagus
Potatoes: not to be eaten more than 3 times per week
Fruit: raspberries, strawberries, plums
Corn cereals, puffed rice
Yogurt (organic), kefir, cottage cheese
Nuts: unsalted walnuts, hazelnuts, almonds, peanuts
Sugar/Honey: restrict as much as possible
*All food that are not on the list are forbidden. Especially alcohol as it raises estrogen.

Drinks
Milk: drink 750 ml milk daily
Cranberry juice
Propel fitness water with calcium, Evian mineral water
Wine (an occasional drink allowed)
Peppermint tea

SUPPLEMENTS
You need to take supplements are to decrease cervical mucus pH. Studies show that low pH favors girl conceptions.

Here is the list of supplements that I have heard of:

Every day of the cycle:
Calcium citrate (1200 mg a day)
Magnesium (250 mg a day)
Folic Acid (450 mcg a day)
Vitamin C (500 mg a day)
Acidilophis (2 a day)
Chasteberry (Vitex) (500 mg a day)
B6 (100 mg a day)

Every day from AF to O
Cranberry (total of 1,500 to 10,000 mg a day if possible)

Husband take:
Cranberry (as much as he’ll take)
Any of the other supplements you are taking if he’ll take them except Vitex.

You can also take Baby aspirin-81 mg (1 a day) around ovulation. This helps with implantation and helps maintain the pregnancy.

Good luck :)!

Kinzy´s story - O+12 method to conceive a girl

The O+12 Method was developed by an ordinary woman from Australia – not a doctor, scientist or astrologer. Kynzi is a mom of 6 boys and she desperately wanted a baby girl.. This method is interesting because not only does it work, but it completely contradicts the Shettles Method that’s so famous.

Kynzi was actively trying for a baby girl from her second child (first was a boy), and took a neighbors advice to have frequent sex until three days before ovulation (as recommended by the Shettles Method). To her disappointment she conceived another a boy.
She then tried for her third baby, this time once again perfectly timing intercourse to stop three days before ovulation, feeling that timing was the most important factor, and once again delivered a boy.
Frustrated and determined to conceive a baby girl, she charted her Basal Body Temperature (BBT) over a year to determine her ovulation precisely, followed the baby girl diet, took calcium supplements, stopped having sex four days before ovulation and even used a vinegar douche (increasing the acidity of the cervical mucus which is beneficial to girl producing sperm).
Although she was told "girl" at the ultrasound, the result was a boy!

Determined to master the Shettles method, Kynzi continued the girl diet, and conceived nearly five days before ovulation. Yes, you guessed it, another boy was born...

After a friend's daughter was conceived with a 2-day cutoff, Kynzi thought that maybe they were trying too early, and timed intercourse 2 days before ovulation. It didn`t work. Kynzi and her husband took home their SIXTH son!

Kynzi had now conceived boys 2, 3, 4, and 5 days before ovulation and at this point, decided it was time to quit. On a trip to her doctor to arrange getting her tubes tied after her sixth boy defeated her resolve to keep trying for a boy, she was shocked when a nurse told her that the Shettles success rate was only 50% in reality. Instead they sat together and examined a New Zealand study that entirely disproved the Shettles theory and they spotted a trend that no one else had: Of all the days around ovulation the only day on which minimal boys were conceived was the day following ovulation!
Rather than having her tubes tied Kynzi ran home to give it one more go.By now, she was an expert at determining when she ovulated, after years of charting, plus ultrasounds and blood tests. She decided to time intercourse 12 hours after all signs of ovulation had abated. She also convinced her husband to abstain from any ejaculation for the entire cycle until this point.
The big day arrived and despite Kynzi and her husband being interrupted mid way through their intercourse by one of their boys, and despite the whole family immediately catching a stomach bug shortly afterwards, Kynzi soon found out that she was pregnant :). And she knew that that one interrupted intercourse was the only one, and her husband had not even completed the act.
You can only imagine her joy when she have birth to a beautiful, healthy baby girl!
Although this method initiated as advice that she gave to friends and family hoping for girls (all of whom were 100% successful!) it was soon a method that took the world by storm. Of the first 41 people to follow this method, 37 girls and 4 boys were born – making the O+12 method 90% successful!
Kinzy´s story makes me wanna cry. I have two boys and I really hope to have a little girl to complete our family :).

Timing of intercourse

SHETTLES METHOD

According to Dr. Landrum Shettles his method is "the method best supported by scientific evidence". He published the book "How to choose the sex of your baby" that has been in print in various editions since 1960s.

There are two types of sperm: X-bearing sperm and Y-bearing sperm. The egg, from the mother, is always an X. If the X-bearing sperm penetrate the egg, then the baby is a girl (XX). If the Y-bearing sperm penetrate the egg, then the baby is a boy (XY).
According to the theory, the sperm chromosomes that will make a girl (X) and the ones that will make a son (Y) have different properties.

The sperm that will conceive a girl are slow-moving but can survive longer in the cervical environment. They can linger for up to 5 days waiting for the egg. The sperm that will conceive a male child are fast and smaller but they die more quickly.

Shettles theory for conceiving a girl:

• You should have sex 2½-3 days before ovulation to allow the Y-bearing sperm to die off before the egg becomes available during ovulation.
• Women should avoid orgasms because it makes the vagina less favorable for the X-bearing sperm that prefer the acidic environment.
• Avoid sexual positions that involve deep penetration.

Shettles Theory to Conceive a Boy

• Use sexual positions with deep penetration, this gives preference to the supposedly faster, but less hearty Y-bearing sperm.
• Timing of intercourse is most important factor. Have sex as close to ovulation as possible (the ideal time for intercourse is 12 hours before ovulation), to take advantage of the speed of the Y-bearing sperm.
• Women should have orgasms when trying to conceive a boy, and ideally just before or the same time as their partner.

O+12 METHOD

O+12 (pronounced "oh plus twelve") is a method for conceiving a girl. The reason for the name: O+12, is that the method generally recommends having sex 12 hours after ovulation. Other rules of this method is that the man must not ejaculate for 7 days before sexual intercourse (and ideally longer than 7 days). Charting your cervical mucus and BBT is essential as you will have to know when ovulation has occurred to ensure you time your intercourse correctly. O+12 is contrary to the Shettles method, which predicts a boy will be conceived on the day ovulation.

The O+12 method wasn't was proposed by an Australian mother, a Shettles devotee who had six sons before stumbling on the idea that a girl might be conceived by timing intercourse just after ovulation, contrary to Shettles' advice. After giving birth at last to a daughter, she shared her method with other mothers, many of whom were successful in conceiving a daughter as well.
*Read more about this in my incoming post.

The O+12 Key: Pinpointing Ovulation
Before getting into the detailed instructions for O+12, it's enough to say that a successful O+12 attempt depends on being able to pinpoint ovulation. You will need to learn how your body works. Best way to detect ovulation is to chart your basal body temeperature, use ovulation kits and check your cervical mucus.

O+12 Instructions
Your husband must not ejaculate for at least 7 days before intercourse (and preferably longer).
No ejaculation in any way :)! Try to get him to abstain from the first day of your cycle.
The reason for this is that since female sperm supposedly live longer, an "old" batch of sperm should have more female than male sperm (about 2% more, according to some data).
Have intercourse once only, 8 to 20 hours after ovulation. You you get your positive OPK-this means you may ovulate in 8-48 hours. This is the time to watch the cm and cervix.
Start counting the 8-20 hours when...
• Any sharp O pain has subsided.
• Your CM begins to change from EWCM to creamy or sticky.
• Your cervix begins to become less soft and high.
You should wait to have intercourse until you have seen one high BBT(termal shift) to confirm that ovulation has truly past. This is the only way to truly confim O. Do NOT have intercourse again until you are sure you are no longer fertile. You are past your fertile stage when you have had THREE high temperatures on your BBT chart.

Along with O+12, many also try:
• The girl diet
• Supplements (calcium and magnesium, cranberry)
• Douching before intercourse with a lemon douche to lower your PH (mix the fresh-squeezed juice of 1/2 lemon with an equal part of water, and insert with the empty bottle from a regular store-bought douche).

There’s no proven studies to fully support either method, however a 90% success rate is surely worth a try (especially if you’ve been unsuccessful with everything else until now).

I will hopefully try this method to TTC a girl next year. Wish me luck :)!

Trying to conceive a girl?

Dreaming about a baby girl? Maybe you already have sons and you have strong desire for a daughter or you just always wanted to have a little girl. I`m in same boat with you so I decided to put all my research on one place to help other couples who are desperately want a pink bundle.

You may been wondering if it`s really possible!? Well, none of this methods are not 100% sure, but according to what I have read, you can really boost your chances of having a certain gender.

There are many ways to increase your odds to naturally conceive a girl. I will put together all tips and techniques that I have found during my research.
Following this guide, you will learn all about natural gender selection methods and hopefully get your little girl :).

Baby dust to you all xx!!!