Sexual positions
Deep penetration, for example doggy style, means the male sperm that can swim faster start their race closer to the cervix and are more likely to reach the egg first, resulting in a boy. To try and conceive a girl, Shettles suggested avoiding deep penetration, favouring the missionary position.
"At most (but not all) NHS hospitals, the sonographer will tell you the sex at the 20-week scan, if they can tell and you want to know. There are also some other antenatal tests which you may be offered, such as non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT), that can reveal the genetic sex of your baby.
Every egg has an X sex chromosome; a sperm can have either an X or a Y sex chromosome. If the sperm that fertilizes an egg has an X chromosome, the baby is female; if it has a Y chromosome, the baby will be a boy.
They found that the most fertile months for conceiving a boy were from September to November, while the lowest fertile period was from March to May.
The baking soda gender test is an at-home method that involves combining a pregnant woman's urine with baking soda to see if it fizzes. Whether or not the urine fizzes is supposed to determine whether the baby is male or female.
So it appears there's not enough evidence to back up claims male or female pregnancies differ significantly in terms of the maternal hormonal environment. This makes it unlikely that anecdotes of moodier, angrier or uglier pregnancies are due to the sex of the fetus.
Short of medically implanting an embryo that is known to be a boy, there are no guarantees when it comes to the sex of your baby. In general there is approximately a 50/50 chance of having a boy or girl if things are left to nature. It all comes down to which sperm wins the race, and millions of them are racing.
Boys' and girls' genitals develop along the same path with no outward sign of gender until about nine weeks. It's at that point that the genital tubercle begins to develop into a penis or clitoris. However, it's not until 14 or 15 weeks that you can clearly begin to see the differentiated genitalia.
Morning sickness is one of the most common pregnancy symptoms and can vary from person to person. While there's been some association between gender and NVP, there's no definitive research to prove that carrying a girl or boy will affect the severity of your morning sickness.
This produced the largest dataset available on the sex ratio throughout the stages of pregnancy. A key result from this study was that the sex ratio at conception is equal: there is no difference in the number of males and females conceived.
So, if you want a boy, have sex between two days before ovulation and especially two days after. A more acidic vagina PH will likely produce a girl because a high amount of X-sperm will be left to fertilise the egg.
It usually starts at about 6 weeks of pregnancy and is at its worst at about 9 weeks. Most women feel better in their second trimester, but some have morning sickness throughout pregnancy.
Levels of the pregnancy hormone hCG, which triggers morning sickness, tend to be higher in mothers who are pregnant with girls. But anyone who's pregnant can have morning sickness, even bad morning sickness, when they're carrying a boy. So no, you can't count on it being a girl if you've got serious morning sickness.
You can also find out the sex of your baby by having noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT), a blood test, which is usually done between 11 and 14 weeks of pregnancy. Genetic testing methods such as amniocentesis or chorionic villus sampling (CVS) can also reveal the sex of your baby.
The problem is, the concept is bogus. "There are no sex hormones in urine that change color at this stage of pregnancy and prove one way or another the sex of the baby," says Daniel A. Potter, M.D., a reproductive endocrinologist at HRC Fertility in Newport Beach, California.
The least common birthday is leap day, or February 29. But because the day only occurs once every four years, it's obvious it would yield the least amount of birthdays. The rarest birthday of the 365 annual calendar days is Christmas day, Dec. 25.
After tracking your basal body temperature (when your body is at rest) for a few months to learn when you ovulate, the Whelan Method states you should have sex four to six days before ovulation if you want a boy.
A new study has revealed that people born in April are the sexiest - and having a birthday in April myself, I'm obviously completely sold on the theory…
Ultimately, you can't determine the sex of your baby by whether or not you have morning sickness. The only way to really know if you're having a boy or girl before delivery is through a chromosome test or ultrasound.
Geneticists have discovered that all human embryos start life as females, as do all embryos of mammals. About the 2nd month the fetal tests elaborate enough androgens to offset the maternal estrogens and maleness develops.
Put babies to bed when they are drowsy.
This helps babies learn to fall asleep on their own, in their own bed. If you hold babies or rock them to sleep, they may struggle to go back to sleep if they wake up during the night. Remember to place babies on their back to sleep for every sleep until they are 1 year of age.