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Boy/Girl Recipe

Before you start reading how it’s done, ask yourself why you particularly want a son or a daughter. Remember that no recipe is ever guaranteed 100% and that whether you’re blessed with a boy or a girl, your love for your baby should be unconditional and his / her safe arrival and well-being your main concern.

INGREDIENTS

Biologically the ingredients are two X chromosomes for a girl, and a X and a Y chromosome for a boy. These chromosomes are carried by two different types of male sperm and whether you conceive a boy or a girl depends which type wins the race to reach the egg first.

The Y chromosome sperm are smaller and swim faster than the X chromosome sperm, but aren’t as tough. So if you’re dreaming of a bonny boy, make love on the day you ovulate because there’s an egg waiting to be fertilized when the sperms reach the Fallopian tube. If you’re longing for a little baby girl, make love two or three days before your ovulation date the sperm carrying the female chromosome takes longer to reach the Fallopian tubes but they also survive longer.

Timing is important, too, because your baby’s sex is influenced by the PH of the vagina. Male sperm prefer an alkaline and female sperm an acidic environment.
If you’re trying for a boy. love-making should be when the vaginal balance changes to alkaline – on the day you ovulate – because male sperm either slow down or are killed off in an acidic environment.
Doctor Shettler, the man who devised this method, claims that it’s between 75 and 90 % effective.

MAP OUT YOUR PROGRESS

If you’re trying for a baby of particular sex, you must do a little groundwork and know exactly when you ovulate:

  • Keep record of you periods for about four months, marking the day you start menstruating as day one.
  • On this day begin taking your temperature (using a special ovulation thermometer bought from your pharmacist) before you get up or have anything to eat or drink.
  • Prepare your chart by dividing a piece of pre-drawn graph paper into even sections to show the days of your cycle. On the left-hand vertical line, divide the graph into temperature measurement s according tot the readings on your ovulation thermometer.
  • Mark your temperature each day using a different coloured pen for each month or cycle.

When you ovulate, your temperature should rise slightly and, if you are accurate and your cycle is regular, you’ll see this rise on more or less the same day every month about 14 days before the fist day of you period. (You can also do Home Ovulation Tests on you urine – Purchased from most large Pharmacies)

TELL – TALE SIGNS

Your body also changes when you’re ovulating so look out for the following: swollen, tender breasts, a sharp pain on either side of you stomach about half-way down and increased odourless and colourless vaginal discharge

 HELPFUL HINTS

  • Deep penetration ensures that sperm are released as near to the cervix as possible. This is said to favour conceiving a boy because the vaginal secretions here are the most alkaline
  • Vaginal secretions become more alkaline, and so more favourable to male sperm when a woman reaches orgasm
  • Although wearing tight pants, jogging and taking long, hot baths can reduce your partner’s spemcount, it’s also said to increase your chances of conceiving a girl. Because male sperm are the most vulnerable, they’ll be affected first, leaving the stronger female sperm to fertilise the egg. But be careful – reduced sperm count can also lessen your chances of falling pregnant.
  • Douching with vinegar, bicarbonate of soda or anything else will not affect he pH of your vagina. Instead is may be harmful and could lead to vaginal irritation, ruptures or infection.

SELECTION OF A FEMALE FETUS

  1. Frequent coitus is performed in the 7-10 days before ovulation
  2. The last coitus should be at least 24 hours, and preferably more, before ovulation is expected to occur, and abstinence should then be practised for at least a week.
  3. Intercourse should be face-to-face, and the ejaculate should be deposited low in the vagina, preferably just inside the introitus.
  4. Intercourse should cease with ejaculation
  5. Female orgasm should not occur.

SELECTION OF A MALE FETUS

  1. Abstinence should be practised from the end of menstruation until after ovulation has occurred
  2. Vaginal penetration should be from the rear, so that ejaculation will occur high in the vaginal vault, and preferably against the cervix. The man should have deep penetration at the moment of ejaculation
  3. Intercourse should cease with ejaculation
  4. Female orgasm should occur just before ejaculation
  5. The procedure should be repeated two or three times the next 24-48hours.