Miscellaneous Tips For Natural Gender Selection

There's so much information out there on natural gender selection.  It's easy to get bogged down.  The basics are actually pretty simple, however!  The most important things to remember are that diet and lifestyle make the biggest differences.  What you eat and how you eat it are important!  There are a few little tips, however, that may boost your chances even more.  This article will cover some of the most common ones I get questions about.

Take a Position

Traditional lore on choosing your baby's gender says that certain positions might help you get a baby boy or a baby girl.  Positions is referring to where you and your partner are in relation to each other during baby-making sex.  Dr. Shettles discussed this in his book.

It's something that's pretty easy to add to your gender selection plan.  After all, you just pick the position you think is best, then use it!  In the grand scheme of things, however, positions probably don't make difference.  Add them in as a nice "bonus" technique. 

Shallow penetration favor girls.  Woman on top, where you control penetration, is a favorite.  Missionary position can also get fairly shallow.

Deep penetration favor boys.  "Doggy style" is the classic for deep penetration.

Extreme Gender Swaying

Some of the natural gender selection communities place heavy emphasis on what they call "extreme gender swaying."  This is an optional approach to choosing your baby's gender naturally.  It gets a bit more technical than other approaches, and can get pretty stressful.

These extreme approaches pull strongly on the theories of sorting sperm and on pH levels.  The point to them is to try and sort sperm in a home setting.  This is done via home centrifuge, incubators, etc. 

You also attempt to create a medium of the pH you desire (more alkaline for a boy and more acidic for a girl) to encourage the sperm for the gender you want.

After you've sorted the semen sample and manipulated pH, you insert the semen sample into the vaginal via a syringe, turkey baster, or something like a cervical cap or menstrual cup.

These methods are called "extreme" gender swaying because they are much more extreme than most women go to.  If you feel strongly about getting a daughter or son, however, you may want to try one of these methods.

O+12

O+12 is actually a method of timing intercourse, and it's only used when trying for a girl.  Many women are not sure what it is, which is why it's included in this mixed tips article!

Traditional timing of intercourse for a girl states that you should have intercourse several days before ovulation to get a daughter.  But there are some that believe that O+12 may have advantages for girls, too.  Using this method, you have baby-making sex right at 12 hours after ovulation.  This is supposed to favor girls.

The obvious challenge with the O+12 technique is that it's really hard to know exactly when 12 hours ovulation happens!  You can use ovulation predictor kits and fertility monitors, but you still won't pinpoint exactly when ovulation happens.  If you're charting your menstrual cycle, your temperature will rise after you ovulate -- but again, it doesn't tell you exactly when it happened.

If you're one of the women who feels a sharp pain when ovulation occurs, O+12 may be a valid strategy for you.  Otherwise, timing for O+12 is close to impossible to get just right!



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