Archive for December, 2010
How to Effectively Choose the Sex of Your Baby
Gender Selection: Can you really choose the sex of your baby?
Gender selection, which once seemed like something out of a science fiction story, has become a known reality thanks to great leaps in medical technology and knowledge, and increased awareness of the efficacy of certain at-home techniques. Previously, being able to choose the sex of your baby was not a reality, though not for lack of desire on the part of parents since the dawn of time.
The preference of one sex over the other is certainly nothing new. Different cultures usually prefer one or the other based on factors such as money, prestige, power, lineage, or religion. From that need there have also arisen many anecdotal methods about how one might go about achieving the goal of gender selection, though without much success or reliable study or documentation.
Fast forward to current times, and you have many solid choices for tipping the scales in your favor. Certain medical procedures are available, and they produce very reliable results. There are also documented natural methods that can produce nearly comparable success rates, though not quite as good.
Medical Gender Selection: Available Procedures
The medical procedures available to parents these days have a very high success rate, but they are expensive, risky and morally questionable. Drawbacks include the following:
Expensive – With each round of treatments costing tens of thousands of dollars, it’s no wonder most people are unable to utilize these amazing medical advances.
Risky – Medical gender selection procedures also normally require invasive fertility treatments and drugs that have dangerous side-effects.
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How To Determine the Sex of Your Baby Before Conception
An average menstrual cycle (of 28 days or more) begins with 3 to 5 days of menstruation (sometimes, up to 7 days). The 3 to 7 days that menstruation lasts is called the menstrual period. In most women the menstrual cycle is about 28 days, but it can vary considerably even from one month to another.
Hence, let us assume we have a 30-days chart, Day 1 on the Chart will be the 1st day of the woman’s menstruation. PERIOD.
Between 13th and 14th day after the menstruation, the ovary releases the mature egg in a process called ovulation. The egg passes through the fallopian tube to the uterus. If the egg unites with a sperm on its way to the uterus, fertilization occurs and pregnancy ensues.
However, to conclude our research here by driving the point home again with reference to our past study:
If you desire a baby boy:
We know that the ‘male’ sperm cells, which carry a Y-chromosome, swim more quickly than the ‘female’ sperm cells, which carry an X-chromosome, but will die off faster as well, so the twoof you as partnersmust be sure that you are as close to 100% certain that you are ovulating, then you can have sex closer to that ovulation date.
This is to allows the faster swimming ‘male’ sperm to swim off to the waiting female egg and fertilize it before the slower swimming ‘female’ sperm reach their destination.