Can you really choose the sex of your baby? Well after two beautiful, healthy girls my husband and I are like alot of families we also want a boy to even out our family. There was some guilt at first about wanting to overcome nature’s 50/50 chance. Since then I have become highly interested in uncovering old wives tales regarding gender selection, books that guarantee 99% success rates and modern methods like PGD. What is truth and fiction regarding these methods? Hopefully this article can point you in the right direction.

To understand the truth of gender selection methods on the market today we should first cover the basics of semen. Generally, semen contains sperm cells with 50% being female (X-Chromosomes) and 50% being male (Y-Chromosomes). This is important to choosing the sex of your baby when you understand the characteristics of each chromosome bearing sperm. The X-Chromosome is slower, bigger, stronger, and more resilient while the Y-Chromosome is faster, smaller, less resilient and sensitive to heat.

An important gender selection factor that most people are simply not aware is the fact that the environment of the woman’s reproductive tract could be either too acidic or too alkaline and kill the “Y” sperm or “X” sperm. Since the male sperm are weaker a highly acidic tract is a harsh environment for them to survive in, when they are eliminated the only ones left are “X” sperm, producing a girl. On the other hand alkalinity favors the conception of a baby boy as it will act as a booster to the “Y” sperm since they are faster and will easily beat the slower “X” sperm to the egg.

Scientific researches have demonstrated that the woman’s reproductive tract acidity level will have a direct impact on the gender of the baby she conceives. So in conclusion no matter which gender selection method you choose you could still fail at choosing the sex of your baby if you are either too acidic or too alkaline. There are two factors that have a direct impact on the mother’s pH level, a woman’s orgasm and her diet.

When a woman has an orgasm her body releases a substance that makes her pH a little more alkaline but it has not been determined in this theory how concentrated the substance is and whether it will efficiently alter the reproductive tract environment. Diet alterations to influence the pH level must take place starting about 6-8 weeks before conception and during conception up until the woman gets pregnant. Most scientist agree that mineral supplements are the way to go about altering the reproductive tract but first you must test your urine or saliva to know where you pH stands in order to know where to begin shifting it.

At this point I would like to warn you about a commonly used method to balance the pH of a woman’s tract that can be hurtful to you and your baby. Unfortunately a lot of women use water & vinegar or baking soda vaginal douches but they may irritate your vagina and change the normal balance of good bacteria. It can spread an infection from your vagina or cervix up into the uterus thus increasing you risk of getting PID or pelvic inflammatory disease. The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services has issued a warning alerting women of the potential hazards of douching.

So we have now learned the importance of the reproductive tract’s environment and diet to choosing the sex of your baby but there is one further step to increasing accuracy in gender selection. The idea is to time sexual intercourse in advance of ovulation with certain timing being more likely to yield girls or boys. The logic is to have intercourse 3 to 4 days before ovulation so that virtually all the male “Y” sperm will have died off in order to conceive a girl. On the other hand you would have intercourse at or very close to ovulation to hopefully yield a son.

Many theories and opinions abound in trying to choose the sex of your baby but if you have found this page hopefully the information has been informative. On my final note I have chosen not to list or argue the moral issues of gender selection that is for you to decide for yourself. I only wish to list the factual information I have studied. To receive a free newsletter further discussing gender selection Click Here!

Melissa Zellmer has two beautiful, healthy and loved daughters. My passion is sorting through the immense amount of knowledge on the internet to find what is truth vs. fiction.

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