conceiving girls

[Amanda*Elijah's Mummy*]

Hey everyone!! my fiancee and i are wanting to try for our second child, we already are proud parents to Elijah our beautiful 10 month old boy, and were hoping for a daughter this time round. WE have heard there are ways in increaseing our chances of having a girl and if anyone knows anything it would be a great help!! Thanks so much have a lovely day!
God Bless

Manda (15/2/87) :cool:
Fiancee to Shane (3/10/76) :D
mummy to Elijah (5/9/04) :p
stepmummy to Lachlan 18/3/02) :)

[reflect169]

Hey Manda...

how are you?

basicaly, male sperm are bigger, and faster than female sperm, however, they alo die faster, hence female sperm survive longer. so, if u try a few days before u ovlate,u increase your chances of having a girl. do you have anythng that tell you what day u ovulate, i strongly recomend, Maybe Baby, as it tells u whe u are ABOUT to ovulate, so u can try then!

love, ami xxx :p

[Briannabear]

I agree with Ami! Another good book which describes cycles etc is 'The Billings Method". It helped me understand! :)
Good Luck!

[maybe1more]

Im only a few weeks pregnant with bub number 2 and im hopeing ive concieve a girl as i have a 2 year old son Connor, i was told to eat alot of dairy before concieving like milk, yoghurt, cheese, ice-cream(that ones easy) and to stay away from salt, also sweet potato is supose to be a 'girlfood' too. Also try a few days before you ovulate. Hope this helps a little, best of luck.

[Briannabear]

Apparently chocolate is good too! (a good excuse anyway!!)

[Amanda*Elijah's Mummy*]

thanks guys for your help. we'll give it a go!! :p

[IAdoreYou]

I don't know why ..

though if you take 1000mg of folate DAILY! start asap .. that helps with girls!

Also, have sex just ONCE! thats it .. girls are harder to get so having sex once may sound silly!

fresh sperm create boys ... having lots of sex will get you a boy!

thats my theroy anyway!

enjoy and goodluck.

[meeks84]

I don't know why ..

though if you take 1000mg of folate DAILY! start asap .. that helps with girls!



Actually folate (or folic acid) is great to take, but won't help you conceive a girl... "Taking folic acid before conception reduces the risk of neural-tube defects such as spina bifida." (from http://www.babyhopes.com/articles/folic-acid.html)

I'm very interested in this topic too as we are about to try for a girl, and i've been doing lots of online research but found many sites to give conflicting information.

So far i've found many sites seem to agree that diet is the biggest factor after timing (sex 2-7 days before ovulation seems to be the recommendation for a girl), the site below states why, but here's what they say for trying for a girl:

DIET

Eat:
Consume lots of calcium
You should be eating more foods that are rich in calcium. So ideally you need to be eating more milk and cheese (full fat preferably) and also yogurt. A diet rich in calcium will help to ensure that the right kind of environment is created in your cervix so more of the sperm carrying the female gene are able to pass through and fertilize the eggs released from the ovaries.
Eat spicy foods (because they raise Ph acidity levels)
Eat a protein rich diet
Cranberry juice
Foods high in magnesium (Green vegetables such as spinach are good sources of magnesium because the center of the chlorophyll molecule (which gives green vegetables their color) contains magnesium. Some beans, peas, nuts, seeds, and whole, unrefined grains are also good sources of magnesium.)

Avoid:
Eliminate caffeine
You need to eliminate caffeine from your diet. So why not have decaffeinated tea and coffee each day from now on. Also you should stop drinking sodas especially Coke Cola and Pepsi, plus restrict or eliminate chocolate completely from your diet as well.
Elimiate salt (sodium)
Cut down or eliminate salt from your diet. The properties within the salt are ones that can cause changes in your body which will result in the wrong sort of environment being created in the cervix for you to increase your chances of conceiving a baby girl rather than a baby boy.
Eliminate Green Tea (increases CM)
Avoid eating lots of calories
Reduce extra helpings of cereals and grains

Most of the above is from: http://www.buzzle.com/articles/how-to-conceive-a-baby-girl-or-boy.html (http://www.buzzle.com/articles/how-to-conceive-a-baby-girl-or-boy.html)




Please if anyone else knows any other things to do let us know, and if anything up there is wrong or can be added to let me know too! I'm very keen to put this into practice soon.