Ever Wonder How To Conceive A Baby Boy?

By Kathy Forcey

Before we can get to tips and trick on how to conceive a baby boy it is absolutely imperative to give due consideration to the actual dynamics of conception. Woman are the carriers of X chromosomes in their eggs while men carry either Y or X chromosomes in their sperm. The man will determine the gender of the child with either his X chrome for a girl or Y chrome for a boy. The secret to conceiving a male or female baby lies in the creation of a favorable environment in which the sperm with the desired Y or X chromosomes can travel to fertilize the egg.

As with everything in life there are plenty of old-wives tales and myths making the rounds on successful ways for how to conceive a baby boy. Be very cautious listening and applying these, some have the potential of being hazardous to your health while others on the other hand are a plain waste of time.

Your diet can have a direct impact on the creation of a suitable environment for gender preference sperm. The foods you consume affects the body's pH levels which in turn affect the vagina's pH level. The higher your vagina's pH levels the quicker Y chromes also known as male sperm will die thus it's highly recommended that you keep pH levels neutral by steering clear from foods known to raise the body's acid levels. There are testing strips made expressly for this purpose.

An extensive range pf medications both over-the-counter and prescribed are available to assist or help gender selection along. Dietary supplements are also often recommend however the potency and effectiveness of these supplements on their own leaves much to be desired. In general, supplements are helpful to balance any nutritional deficiencies you may have in your overall diet., but don't do much by way of gender selection.

Popular methods for how to conceive a baby boy include Whelan, Ericsson, Billing, Shettles and Chinese Pregnancy Chart methods of conception. Before you initiate any treatment, consult with your physician to ensure they are safe. You may be interested to know though that with all things being equal, the odds do favor boys with a ratio of 51 males to 49 females for every 100 births.

Shettles is the most popular and effective method employed thus far, consisting of initial ovulation calculation and then to have intercourse within the 24 hours in which ovulation occurs. In direct contrast to Shettles method is Whelan method. The method recommends intercourse 4 or more days before the actual ovulation day. Both methods are fairly close in terms of accuracy, somewhere in the 68% range for conceiving a baby boy.

The process of sperm filtering is known as the Ericsson Method where faster Y sperm are separated from the slower X sperm. Of all the various gender selection methods the Billings Method is most complicated comprising of charting and constant observing. The centuries-old Chinese Birth Chart with it's rumored 90% accuracy, employ the mother's lunar age and month of planned conception to predict the baby's gender. Keep in mind that the regular calendar will not yield the same results. - 30224

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