What Can I Do To Get Pregnant With A Baby Boy


by Christina Wells - Date: 2010-05-30 - Word Count: 493 Share This!

So you say you'd be thrilled as long as the baby's healthy, but admit it: deep down, you're longing for a boy. You're not alone. Couples have been trying for hundreds of years to improve their chances of getting pregnant with a boy. Old wives' tales have encouraged everything from eating red meat and salt to having intercourse during a quarter-moon. No one knows for sure whether or not these methods actually work, but that hasn't stopped thousands of people from trying.

In recent years, couples are better able to get pregnant with a boy with the advent of artificial insemination and in-vitro fertilization, allowing those with the means to do so to select the gender of their unborn child. Adoption is another foolproof way to get the gender of your choice. Those without the cash to design their own babies, however, have the option to employ at-home gender selection.

Some suggested methods for getting pregnant with a boy include timing your ovulation (the closer intercourse is to ovulation, some believe, the greater the chance of getting pregnant with a boy), charting cervical mucus and Basal Body Temperature and employing certain positions during intercourse. Men are encouraged to wear boxers so as not to overheat their sperm. To create a more "boy-friendly" passage, with increased alkaline levels, Dad should also take care that Mom has an orgasm.

The process of getting pregnant With baby boy is a complex dance of luck. Of the 200-400 million sperm released into a woman, only one will make it into her fertile egg (kind of like the "American Idol" of conception). Each egg in her body carries an X chromosome. A meeting with a sperm with another X-chromosome will result in a little girl nine months own the road. If you are hoping to Get Pregnant With a baby boy, you'll be rooting for a sperm toting the Y-chromosome to get to Mommy's egg first. One way to get those lazy "boys" moving us with a caffeine shot; Dad is encouraged to drink soda or coffee right before intercourse, if he wants to get pregnant with a boy.

Some even say that Mom should drink cough syrup before intercourse, as it thins the cervical mucus and makes it easier for the "Y guys" to make it in faster. To better your odds even more, many people turn to the Chinese Lunar Birth Calendar, which can foresee a baby's gender based on the mother's age and the month in which she gets pregnant.

Since 51 boys are born for every 49 girls, you've got an advantage if you want to get pregnant with a baby boy. While male sperm make for faster swimmers, says Dr. Shettles of The Shettles Method, they are not as hardy, biologically as their female counterparts. So, while you can never have complete control over the outcome, it certainly won't hurt to try a few tricks and give your boy the best shot he can get.

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