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Low-tech Ways to Choose Your Baby's Gender

Using the Shettles Method or Whelan Method to Conceive a Boy or Girl

By Virginia Gilbert

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Low-Tech Ways to Choose Your Baby's Gender-Using the Shettles Method or Whelan Method to Conceive a Boy or Girl "All I want is a healthy baby." Although this wish tops every pregnant woman's list, many moms-to-be harbor a secret, or not so secret, desire for a boy or a girl.

At some fertility clinics, high-tech sperm-spinning can yield the preferred gender up to 90 percent of the time. But for couples who can't afford this pricey procedure, or who shudder at the idea of "playing God," employing one of the more natural sex selection methods may help them get the baby they want inexpensively, without stepping on Mother Nature's toes.


	The timing of intercourse plays a critical role in achieving the desired gender.

Folklore is full of creative, often wacky, suggestions for choosing a baby's sex. According to the Old Wives, women should eat meat and salty food to get a boy, or splurge on desserts to get a girl. Couples supposedly are more likely to conceive sons if they make love standing up or when there's a quarter moon. Conversely, daughters are in the picture if partners use the missionary position or have sex during a full moon.

The Chinese Birth Gender Chart, which has been around for some 700 years, tells women what dates will result in boy or girl conceptions based on the mother's age and the month of conception.

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intrigued says

4 days, 4 hours ago

my great grandmother had 13 kids, and swore all her life that she picked their gender. She said she slept on her left side (after sex) if she wanted a boy, and on her right if she wanted a girl. I always thought she was nuts, but two pregnancies later I recall that the nights I concieved my sons I did fall asleep on my left side both times. Coincidence? Im curious if the side you sleep on somehow could affect your bodily ph in a way that might actually influence the gender of surviving sperm. I know it sounds crazy- any one else ever heard of this?

funkez.com says

February 19, 2010

Fantastic Web site. Need opinions on choosing baby genders?

anonymous says

February 5, 2010

How is it playing god to use the lab procedures that have 90% success for this, but not playing god to elaborately plan intercourse pattern for the intention of choosing the baby's gender? Is a lower success rate less offensive to god?

Esteban says

October 15, 2009

It's absolutely possible to choose the gender of your future baby. It's just by following 3 simple steps. You cand find out more on http://www.squidoo.com/pickmybabysgender , there you'll find an article I wrote about it. Good luck with your pick!

WDS says

May 18, 2009

Lol having sex while standing up what a load of crap.

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