Trying for a boy?
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Category: Planning Pregnancy (trying for baby)
Forum Name: Planning Pregnancy (trying for baby)
Forum Description: Trying to get pregnant? Going through fertility treatment? Just planning your first or second child? There are many people out there in the same boat to help and listen and share with
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Topic: Trying for a boy?
Posted By: Popsicle
Subject: Trying for a boy?
Date Posted: 17 January 2006 at 3:17pm
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I know it doesn't matter, but we are still in the thinking stages of having number 2. We already have a fabulous little girl (19 months old) and would really like to have one of each, so was wondering if there was anything that we could do to increase chances for a boy, so time to bring out the old wives tales! I hope it doesn't sound selfish, because it is not meant to. Trust me, if we had another little girl - we would still be totally stoked, and Gabrielle is such a wonderful girl that she deserves a sibling - brother or sister, but my partner would like a little boy too and I come from a family full of girls (absolutely no boys), so it would also be nice from my perspective. |
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Posted By: james
Date Posted: 17 January 2006 at 3:29pm
srooy dont no what too do for that i concived my son just before my period i,m sure maya no somthing about how ------------- <a href="http://lilypie.com"><img src="http://b4.lilypie.com/nLJ5p13.png" alt="Lilypie 4th Birthday Ticker" border="0" /></a> |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 17 January 2006 at 3:33pm
Google the shettles method!  ] its an interesting concept and according to that we will have a girl lol but time will tell 
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Posted By: Popsicle
Date Posted: 17 January 2006 at 5:05pm
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In talking to all of my friends that have boys, most of them seemed to have conceived close to the end of their cycle, so maybe there is something in that! Thanks Jezsika - I'll take a look at the Shettles Method. Be really interested to see if it is right for you. 174 days and you'll find out!!! Makes a good read if nothing else aye? |
Posted By: lou
Date Posted: 17 January 2006 at 5:50pm
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From my understanding Boy sperm swims fast but doesn't live very long, girl sperm swims slower, but lives longer. So to increase the chance of having a boy you should avoid sex till just before you ovulate. - 6th form biology teacher used this to get a boy after 2 girls. ------------- Mother to two beautiful children - Sophie age 6 and Ephraim age 4 |
Posted By: k&jsmum
Date Posted: 17 January 2006 at 5:52pm
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sorry to say but i conceived the boys right at the start of my cycle - and i got 2 of them at once!!! So i cant really help either. Good luck on your mission ------------- Marlene Keegan ~ 14 October 2003 Jaidyn ~ 14 October 2003 |
Posted By: Popsicle
Date Posted: 17 January 2006 at 6:17pm
Hilarious - I've just had a quick look at the Shettles Method and it says that you have to monitor your vaginal mucus to find out when you're ovulating  , take your temperature to find out when a certain chromosome (I think) is being released  , have sex doggie style  , have your partner wear boxer shorts (no prob there) and make sure he drinks a caffeinated beverage right before sex! Apparently it all helps the boy sperm reach the egg quicker. I'm thinking about how Clinton would react to all of that, just getting in the moment and I stop and say - "now have you had some caffein?" and he says "no" and I say "well you have to go and have one now!" Would certainly put an end to the 'moment' but hey, I'll give it a go!
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Posted By: Paws
Date Posted: 17 January 2006 at 7:21pm
I get everything but the position, the boxer shorts and the caffine... ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 18 January 2006 at 8:04am
| lol its pretty funny huh!!! have you read how to conceive a girl?! lol i didnt really follow it but we did the sperm meets egg plan (we were just desperate by then to get pregnant) and that worked, you have sex every 2nd day starting the 2nd day after your period, then when you noticing you temp drop you do it every day and then once you ovulate do it again like 2 days later again for good luck. Its alot of work haha but has a fairly high success rate so i have read! lol |
Posted By: Popsicle
Date Posted: 18 January 2006 at 10:26am
| Crikey a girl does sound like a lot of work - excellent!! We only probably had sex once and got a girl - my partners parents were living with us at the time and were in the bedroom next door so didn't do such good things for the sex life (but that's a whole other story). I'll keep looking through it though because I find it fascinating LOL!! I guess the first step for me is to find out when I ovulate and go from there. As I said, still in the thinking stages of no.2 and will probably come off the pill in a couple of months. I'm 37 in July so have no time left to waste! |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 18 January 2006 at 12:53pm
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Good luck i wish you all the best and i look forward to hearing about your positive test
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Posted By: preggy_sunflower
Date Posted: 18 January 2006 at 1:00pm
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Well, I can tell you how to get a boy.... be on the pill, get a tummy bug, vomit twice and voila! A baby boy bun in the oven Oh, and it helps if you are actually not meant to be able to have babies! ------------- Joshua Hadynn - Born 3 May 2006 |
Posted By: Popsicle
Date Posted: 18 January 2006 at 1:59pm
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OMG what a hoot!!! Talk about defy the odds Clare! That must've been a hell of a shock. The best kind of surprise though huh? Thanks Jezsika for that - I will most certainly keep you posted! |
Posted By: preggy_sunflower
Date Posted: 18 January 2006 at 2:05pm
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Hmm, yes a shock is one way to put it!! I cried for two days straight!! But now it's so exciting!! ------------- Joshua Hadynn - Born 3 May 2006 |
Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 19 January 2006 at 8:44am
| Clare- i believe in your technique - two boys and both of them surprises!! |
Posted By: fairsk8
Date Posted: 19 January 2006 at 9:03am
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My partners brothers have this theory that if you are crap in bed you end up with a girl but if you are a great lay you end up with a boy.Boys will be boys. ------------- http://www.bump-and-beyond.com/"> 
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Posted By: Popsicle
Date Posted: 19 January 2006 at 12:52pm
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I have to disagree LOL!!!!! I think I'm quite a good lay and I have a girl!!
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Posted By: preggy_sunflower
Date Posted: 19 January 2006 at 1:38pm
Yep, i'd disagree too.... i'm a crap lay and I'm carrying a boy Hahahahahahahaha  ------------- Joshua Hadynn - Born 3 May 2006 |
Posted By: AnnaD
Date Posted: 19 January 2006 at 1:43pm
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You guys make me chuckle...
I second Clares scheme for a boy!! Take the pill religiously. Get drunk. Have sex and viola!! For me the vital key was to be in the last year of your degree and have funds set aside for your OE!! He he, plans change huh?! But I now have the best thing that has ever happened to me (yeah, and I spose Andy is alright too)... ------------- Anna and Quinn 10 July 2004 www.quinnariki.blogspot.com and one more on the way.... http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Popsicle
Date Posted: 19 January 2006 at 4:54pm
| I'm cracking up sitting here!! Just what I needed right before home time! |
Posted By: toniellis
Date Posted: 19 January 2006 at 6:11pm
Lol my fiancee's brother had an opinion on how to get boys & girls.... He said if the man has a big d*** then baby will be a boy.....Everyone had a really good laugh when his girlfriend had a girl!!!!   ------------- Mum to Alex (11), Blaire (10) & Erika (8) and Damien (6) Successful HWB VBA2Cs! Soon to be surrogate |
Posted By: Popsicle
Date Posted: 20 January 2006 at 8:32am
| That's priceless!!! Bet he has ditched that theory! |
Posted By: aimeejoy
Date Posted: 20 January 2006 at 12:19pm
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lmao Toni!! ------------- Aimee Hannah 22/10/05 Greer 11/02/08 |
Posted By: jack_&_charli
Date Posted: 20 January 2006 at 1:45pm
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hahahaha! what a classic!
ummmm i guess that explains why we have a boy ------------- http://www.alternatickers.com"> 
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Posted By: lou
Date Posted: 20 January 2006 at 2:33pm
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Oh my goodness the things people come up with - certainly a good laugh. Maybe it's all predestioned, and no matter how hard we try we can't influence the out come. Maybe thats why some people end up with large families of all girls or boys? lol ------------- Mother to two beautiful children - Sophie age 6 and Ephraim age 4 |
Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 20 January 2006 at 6:52pm
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LMAO - Willie has 3 boys, then two girls? Did it shrink? I guess that's my loss... -------------  Maya Grace (28/02/03)
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The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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