Explaining Baby Gender Selection
If you are planning of getting pregnant soon, you might want to consider several techniques on baby gender selection. These techniques can help you determine the gender of your baby. Some couples look forward to having a baby girl while some wishes for a boy. If you have a favored gender, it is natural for you to increase the odds of having a child of your favored sex.
To date, couples may now be able to choose their desired gender through baby gender selection. This is a technique which has been receiving too much attention as well as controversies for their ethical and moral implications. In this article, we will share with you basic information and tips that you need to know about baby gender selection.
What is gender selection? This is the term coined to the method of increasing one’s chances of having a child of a certain sex. Couples are now open to using fertility treatment techniques to increase the odds of conceiving either a boy or a girl. To have a boy for instance, the woman’s egg is fertilized with a man’s sperm. Eggs carry X chromosomes while a sperm can carry either an X or a Y chromosome. If a Y chromosome fertilizes with an egg, you will have a boy. If an X-bearing chromosome unites with an egg, then you will have a girl.
You may wonder: why do couples want to choose the gender of their child? There are many reasons why couples use gender selection techniques. Some of the reasons have something to deal with the social, economical and cultural benefits of having either a boy or a girl. The reasons include the following:
l Genetic disease prevention – There are couples who want a certain gender choice in order to prevent certain genetic disorders from being passed on. Hemophilia, for instance, is a disease which occurs only in boys. If hemophilia is part of the family history then some couples hope for a girl instead of a boy.
l Family rebuilding – Some parents who lost a child wish to rebuild the family again by having a child of the same gender. The couples would seek out baby gender selection methods and choose one which will fit their needs and lifestyle best.
l Balancing – Another common reason why couples favor a certain gender is family balancing. They want to balance the number of girls and boys and so they choose a certain type of sex.
For some, gender selection is an easy option. To some; however, concerns on ethics, legal and morality become a huge issue. All these issues can make it difficult for couples to decide on the type of treatment to choose, the clinic to pick and the like. Opponents of gender selection techniques, most of whom with the religious side, stand that these procedures are ethically and morally against the Christian dogma.
If you are 100% sure of pursuing any of these baby gender selection techniques, confirm baby gender using a medical process like a baby gender ultrasound to lessen the flaws of inaccuracy.
Use Chinese Gender Chart For Gender Selection
Feng Shui, Acupuncture, Herbal Medicine, and Tai Chi all come from the wisdoms of ancient Chinese. These techniques or knowledge were once considered as superstitious in the western world, but are now widely used in many civilized countries. The Chinese Gender Chart (aka Chinese Birth Calendar or Chinese Pregnancy Calendar) which is used to predict the gender of a baby, does not yet receive the respect from western eyes like other Chinese ancient wisdoms!
The amazing thing about the Chinese Gender Chart is that it can predict the gender of babies long before a mother’s conception and that its accuracy rate is higher than 90%. The prediction is only based on two factors: the mother’s age of conception and the month of conception (see http://www.chinesegenderchart.info/pregnancy-chart-gender-selection/howitwork.html.) So, if a baby is conceived in June when the woman is 30, she will give birth to a girl. And if a baby is conceived in August when the woman is 22, she will give birth to a boy. The most unusual thing associated with the Chinese Gender Chart is that it is the women who determine the sex of the children; this differs from all medical books that tell you that it is the presence or absence of the Y chromosome from men that determine the sex of the children. Recent medical studies have found that it is the woman’s ovum membrane that chooses whether to fertilize with the X or Y sperm from men. So it is more appropriate to say that it is the female that chooses the sex of the baby (by virtue of selecting which sperm to mate with) and the male only determines the sex of the baby after conception. And this is exactly what the ancient Chinese pointed out.
There are many advantages to using the Chinese Gender Chart: It is 100% free, 100% natural, and it is absolutely safe. But a lot of people who have tested the Chinese Gender Chart conclude that the accuracy of the chart is no better than flipping a coin. What they don’t know is that, to use the Chart, one must follow several rules:
1. The Chinese Gender Chart is based on the lunar calendar.
2. A newborn baby is already one-year old.
3. You don’t choose the first and last ten days of a gender period for conception.
4. You don’t choose to conceive in Chinese leap months.
There is nothing wrong in preferring a baby boy after having two or three girls. You may also consider choosing a specific gender if your family has certain sex-related illnesses. Although there is still no scientific proof of why the chart works, choosing a specific sex by using the Chinese Gender Chart is still the best alternative to more expensive gender selection methods like MicroSort and PGD.
Gender Selection Ovulation Method
Gender Selection Ovulation Method. You can choose the gender of your baby by knowing the time of ovulation. Time of ovulation can easily be calculated by an ovulation calculator. There are many free ovulation calculators online. Before using them, you would need to know the date of you last period and how long your cycle usually last. Ovulation calculators are only suitable for women with regular menstrual cycles. Once you know the days of ovulation, you can easily select the gender of your baby by following the tips below:
For a Baby Boy,
Time intercourse as close to ovulation as possible: The idea is that since the Y-chromosome sperm are faster than the X-chromosome sperm, there will be more Y-chromosome sperm who reach the egg, making it more likely that a Y-chromosome carrying sperm will fertilize the egg.
Abstain from intercourse for four to five days prior to ovulation. Have intercourse only just at the time of ovulation and just before.
Have intercourse that allows for deep penetration. Doggy-Style is recommended. The idea is that the sperm will be deposited closer to the cervix where cervical fluid is most friendly to the Y-chromosome sperm and where the “boy sperm” are more likely to survive since there is less distance to travel.
Men avoid tight clothes: heat kills off both types of sperm, but will kill off the less protected, smaller Y-chromosome sperm faster, according to Shettles.
Women have an orgasm: Female orgasm increases the alkaline secretions in the vagina that are favorable to the Y-chromosome carrying sperm. Having an orgasm before or at the same time as the male partner is a must.
For a Baby Girl,
Have intercourse 2-3 days before ovulation and avoid intercourse just before ovulation until 2 days after ovulation and when you have peak cervical fluid: The idea is that when you have sex a few days before ovulation, only the X-chromosome “girl sperm” will be left in the female reproductive tract waiting to fertilize the egg when it is released.
Have intercourse with shallow penetration: Missionary or any position that will deposit the sperm slightly away from the cervix, giving advantage to the longer living, but slower X-chromosome-carrying sperm.
Women avoid orgasm: Women avoid orgasm because it makes the vaginal environment more alkaline, and less acidic and is disadvantageous to the X-chromosome “girl sperm”.
Gender Selection Methods
There are basically 4 gender selection methods. The methods varies in price and effectiveness. Below is a brief summary of the 4 gender selection methods.
The Gradient Method
This is where the sperms in transferred in a centrifuge and spun at high speeds. The spinning action will then seperate X-Chromosome (girl) bearing sperm from Y-Chromosome (boy) bearing sperm. The separation is possible because X-Chromosome bearing sperm is denser compared to Y-Chromosome bearing sperm. The separated sperms can then be used for gender selection.
Microsort
This is a process by which the type of sperm is identified on a special dye. X-Chromosome bearing sperm and Y-Chromosome bearing sperm can be easily differentiated by this procedure because X-Chromosome bearing sperm absorbs more dye. Differentiated sperms can then be use for gender selection.
PDG (Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis)
This is a complicating procedure in which the DNA of the embryos are analyzed in order to determine their sex and health. With the gender determined during the analysis process, couples can easily select the chosen embryo containing their desired sex.
The Shettles Method
The shettles method is a natural way of gender selection. Unlike the above 3 gender selection methods, the shettles method can be done at home without the help of doctors and specialists. According to
Shettles, it is said that….
To have a baby boy,
• Do not have sex 4-5 days before ovulation
• Have sex on the day of ovulation
• Douche before intercourse
• Woman must have multiple orgasms before sperm is ejaculated
• Ideal sex position is Doggy Style
To have a baby girl,
• Have intercourse a few days before ovulation
• Woman is recommended not to have orgasm
• Ideal sex position is Missionary Style
Basics of Gender Selection And What You Should Know
There is no need for expensive clinical gender selection when it comes to choosing the gender of the baby you desired. There are a few things you can do at home to greatly influence the odds of you having either a baby boy or a baby girl. In this article, you will come across some very good gender selection
tips that will help you choose your baby’s gender.
What determines the gender of your baby?
If X-chromosome bearing sperm reaches the fertile egg first, you will have a baby girl.
If Y-chromosome bearing sperm reaches the fertile egg first, you will have a baby boy.
What are characteristics of X-chromosome sperm and Y-chromosome sperm?
X-chromosome are bigger and stronger but slower.
Y-chromosome are faster but smaller and weaker. Y-chromosome bearing sperms are also sensitive to heat and acidity.
Couples can determine which type of sperm will reach the fertile egg first by knowing the time of ovulation. Time of ovulation is a period when the egg in the woman is most fertile. Find out the day of ovulation can be as easy as using an online ovulation calculator.
For a baby boy, intercourse should be done on the day of ovulation.
For a baby girl, intercourse should be done a few days before ovulation.
You can easily assist Y-chromosome (boy) bearing sperm to reach the fertile egg first by performing the correct sexual position. Any deep penetration sex position will help Y-chromosome sperms by reducing the distance it needs to swim. Let’s not forget that the sperm is exposed to acidic environment. To balance the acidity level in the reproductive tract, douching is encourage before intercourse.
For X-chromosome (girl) bearing to reach the fertile egg first, the ideal positions would be shallow penetrations. This will favor X-chromosome bearing sperm because sperms will have to swim a longer distances and only X-chromosome bearing sperms have the stamina to do so.
