Are You Trying For A Girl? Things Do To Increase Your Chances

By Allison Thompson

There are plenty of people around who feel that you don't have the ability to be able to influence what sex your baby will be. But for those couples who would like to have a beautiful baby girl they will try anything to do so. In this article we take a look at some ways for couples who want answers to the question "Are you trying to conceive a girl?"

First off one suggestion is that by following a certain kind of diet is a way of increasing the chances for a couple to conceive a baby girl rather than a baby boy. It is said that by switching their diet a couple is altering the pH in their bodies and this is believed to help contribute towards the sex of the baby.

This particular method needs the couple to start eating foods with high levels of acid in them such as oranges, grapefruit's, lemons and other such foods. It is thought that the higher level of acidity in the woman's body works on killing of the sperm which contains the Y chromosomes in them and so allows that containing the X chromosomes to reach the egg more easily and fertilize it.

With this method as well as eating foods high in acidity it is crucial that they contain high levels of magnesium and calcium as well. Plus for a couple to be able to increase their chances of conceiving a girl rather than a boy they need to avoid foods high in potassium and salt.

Other people will suggest to couples that they use the Shettles Method to help increase their chances of conceiving a girl by ensuring that they time correctly when to make love. As sperm containing X chromosomes is more resilient than that containing the Y chromosomes intercourse between a couples should take place either 2 to 4 days before egg ovulation begins or a few days after ovulation has stopped.

Dr Shettles surmises that time the woman has begun to ovulate all the sperm containing the Y chromosomes will have died off so this means that only sperm containing the X chromosomes will then fertilize the egg. It is crucial however that couples who are attempting to conceive a girl rather than a boy should avoid having intercourse when ovulation takes places. The simple reason being this gives an opportunity to the sperm containing the Y chromosomes to reach the egg to fertilizer it first.

Along with determining when is the best time for a couple to have intercourse in order to increase their chances of having a girl, Dr Shettle has said that a woman's orgasm can in fact play a part on whether a couple have a boy or a girl. It is thought that when a woman orgasms her body produces more alkaline and this actually is beneficial to the X chromosomes so the possibility of the child being a boy rather than a girl is greatly increased.

Above we offer some ways to help those who have been asked the question "Are you trying to conceive a girl?" By reading what has been written a couple may be able to use these and so improve their chances of having that beautiful baby girl they always dreamed of. - 30525

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