Anonymous wrote:I don't know how nobody has mentioned the only mainstream articles I've read on the subject say women who diet (eat right) and are slim/fit tend to have girls. Women with a bit more fat and less exercise tend to have boys. This is just a study citing a trend with some factors for the whys of it but I know plenty of people that contradict this even though they say there are more that follow this trend.

I haven’t heard the slim thing (and I’m definitely an exception) but I’ve heard that prettier women tend to have girls. I have noticed that, including myself

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Anonymous wrote:My neighbors across the street have 5 boys and 1 girl. In a 3 bedroom house. Yep, the boys all share one bedroom. And yes, the girl is the youngest.

Gotta ask given the post above yours. Is mom heavy?

Do you realize how totally nonsensical that argument is? Just try to think about it for two seconds.

I was just do it for a giggle! Jeez. To prove how dumb that is!

Anonymous wrote:I know, I know... you can’t try for a boy. But does anyone know any tricks that can sway the odds a bit? I’ve heard male sperm swim faster and die first, so maybe having sex the day of ovulation helps. Anyone else hear anything? Taking vitamin C? Lol.

Duke University Hospital and University of Chapel Hill Hospital both gave me a book about positions that work better for getting a boy. This was in the late 1980's early 1990's. I was given the book because my pregnancies had a genetic condition that affected females. Head of obstetrics and gyn high risk groups.

How to choose the sex of your baby? I think that was it.

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Anonymous wrote:My neighbors across the street have 5 boys and 1 girl. In a 3 bedroom house. Yep, the boys all share one bedroom. And yes, the girl is the youngest.

Gotta ask given the post above yours. Is mom heavy?

Do you realize how totally nonsensical that argument is? Just try to think about it for two seconds.

Anonymous wrote:My neighbors across the street have 5 boys and 1 girl. In a 3 bedroom house. Yep, the boys all share one bedroom. And yes, the girl is the youngest.

Gotta ask given the post above yours. Is mom heavy?

The 4 posters below are telling the same thing. They are saying what works. If you care, pay attention:

Sperm producing males swim faster but die sooner. In order to have a male child, sex needs to be at the most fertile time but it's a small window. In order to have a female child, sex needs to be well in advance of the most fertile time.
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I had my girl then my boy using timing.

Girl happened first try (easier to plan).

Boy took 3 tries - smaller window and I was really trying to time it properly
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Could be lucky, but I used pregnancy calendar & timing to get what I want. I got boy first, and then a girl next.Trying for boy was easy at first try. Trying for girl was hardest because I tried to using timing & it took me 2-3 months to get pregnant & I almost wanted to give up
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If you can work out the EXACT day you ovulate (you can tell this by the clear discharge produced on that day) then you only TTC on that day and you'll more likely have a boy.

If you TTC a few days before this, like up to 4 days max, you'll very likely have a girl because those guys hang around and are sturdy and they wait for that egg whereas the boy sperm are racing to get to it the moment they are out of the gate. So if its there waiting, they'll get it but if its not there yet the boy sperm will die off.

Honest question: Does it have to do solely with the sperm? My bestie growing up married a man with 2 boys. Bestie went on to have 3 boys with him.

Also, my son's father has 2 other children with 2 women. All boys.

It seems the woman doesn't get a say!

Anonymous wrote:I don't know how nobody has mentioned the only mainstream articles I've read on the subject say women who diet (eat right) and are slim/fit tend to have girls. Women with a bit more fat and less exercise tend to have boys. This is just a study citing a trend with some factors for the whys of it but I know plenty of people that contradict this even though they say there are more that follow this trend.

Is this an actual study? No anecdotal evidence I see corroborates this.

Do it standing up.

Lol, that’s a joke.

I tried for boy twice. The first one was girl, and the second one was boy. So it's 50/50 .
The only difference is the second time, more zinc (supplement & oysters).

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Anonymous wrote:I don't know how nobody has mentioned the only mainstream articles I've read on the subject say women who diet (eat right) and are slim/fit tend to have girls. Women with a bit more fat and less exercise tend to have boys. This is just a study citing a trend with some factors for the whys of it but I know plenty of people that contradict this even though they say there are more that follow this trend.

I was super thin and athletic and had two boys. Guess I am the exception in this study. I did however ate a lot of spicy food and I read somewhere (post kids) that this increases boy chance.

If being fat meant having more boys, the United States would be birthing almost exclusively boys now since the vast majority of adults are now fat! lol! Ridiculous

Anonymous wrote:I don't know how nobody has mentioned the only mainstream articles I've read on the subject say women who diet (eat right) and are slim/fit tend to have girls. Women with a bit more fat and less exercise tend to have boys. This is just a study citing a trend with some factors for the whys of it but I know plenty of people that contradict this even though they say there are more that follow this trend.

I was super thin and athletic and had two boys. Guess I am the exception in this study. I did however ate a lot of spicy food and I read somewhere (post kids) that this increases boy chance.

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In my experience, trying to have a girl is the easiest way to conceive a boy.

Tell me about it. We tried for girls and had all boys. Still would have loved to have a girl, but my boys are very awesome!

My neighbors across the street have 5 boys and 1 girl. In a 3 bedroom house. Yep, the boys all share one bedroom. And yes, the girl is the youngest.

I don't know how nobody has mentioned the only mainstream articles I've read on the subject say women who diet (eat right) and are slim/fit tend to have girls. Women with a bit more fat and less exercise tend to have boys. This is just a study citing a trend with some factors for the whys of it but I know plenty of people that contradict this even though they say there are more that follow this trend.