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Low-tech Ways to Choose Your Baby's Gender

Using the Shettles Method or Whelan Method to Conceive a Boy or Girl

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By Virginia Gilbert

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Low-Tech Ways to Choose Your Baby's Gender-Using the Shettles Method or Whelan Method to Conceive a Boy or Girl"All I want is a healthy baby." Although this wish tops every pregnant woman's list, many moms-to-be harbor a secret, or not so secret, desire for a boy or a girl.

At some fertility clinics, high-tech sperm-spinning can yield the preferred gender up to 90 percent of the time. But for couples who can't afford this pricey procedure, or who shudder at the idea of "playing God," employing one of the more natural sex selection methods may help them get the baby they want inexpensively, without stepping on Mother Nature's toes.

Old Wives' Tales
Folklore is full of creative, often wacky, suggestions for choosing a baby's sex. According to the Old Wives, women should eat meat and salty food to get a boy, or splurge on desserts to get a girl. Couples supposedly are more likely to conceive sons if they make love standing up or when there's a quarter moon. Conversely, daughters are in the picture if partners use the missionary position or have sex during a full moon.

The Chinese Birth Gender Chart, which has been around for some 700 years, tells women what dates will result in boy or girl conceptions based on the mother's age and the month of conception.

These methods are entertaining to read about, and in some cases to practice, but none has any legitimate scientific merit. For example, going by the Chinese conception chart, this writer's son should have been a daughter.

Low-Tech Ways to Choose Your Baby's Gender-Using the Shettles Method or Whelan Method to Conceive a Boy or Girl

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Re: Low-tech Ways to Choose Your Baby's Gender by anonymous on 09/01/2010 11:07PM

The intercourse timing combined with pH awareness,is the most effective way to try to choose the gender of your baby!! I got a lot about the Natural baby gender selection methods on this web site. It helped me a lot.I definitely recommend Alals.com to you!!----------------- www.alals.com

i have my baby boy now by anonymous on 08/27/2010 01:12AM

http://pregnantbabygender.com is great i have my baby boy now "I'm pregnant on the first try. We did what your book said and we hope to have a little boy in 9 months. We'll keep you posted. Thank you." "I have to admit I was skeptical and read your program out of curiosity. With 2 girls I figured what do I have to lose. We followed the program religiously and we will soon have a baby boy, thanks." Jeff B. Orland Hills, Illinois

Re: Low-tech Ways to Choose Your Baby's Gender by Jennifer Escobedo on 05/17/2010 11:27AM

The timing when you have a sex is the key factor to choose the gender of your baby. The Alals Baby Gender Planning Center could predict your 'Special Days' accurately.You can give a try. All the best. (http://www.alals.com)

I just wanted to let you know... by Gary MacLean on 05/01/2010 09:27AM

Hi, I just wanted to let you know that to much of my surprise, the system really does work. I had my first ultrasound and heard the words I have been wanting to hear, "It's a GIRL"!!! After having two boys, I really didn't think that it was going to happen. We were thrilled to pieces and feel so grateful to the Alals Natural Birth Planning Center (http://www.alals.com) for helping us make this happen! We have told all of our friends and family about it! Giant Regards, Donna & Gary MacLean Ontario, CANADA

Re: Low-tech Ways to Choose Your Baby's Gender by intrigued on 03/16/2010 11:44PM

my great grandmother had 13 kids, and swore all her life that she picked their gender. She said she slept on her left side (after sex) if she wanted a boy, and on her right if she wanted a girl. I always thought she was nuts, but two pregnancies later I recall that the nights I concieved my sons I did fall asleep on my left side both times. Coincidence? Im curious if the side you sleep on somehow could affect your bodily ph in a way that might actually influence the gender of surviving sperm. I know it sounds crazy- any one else ever heard of this?

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