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Trying for a Boy or Girl?
Use These Tips to Pick Your Baby's Gender
By Kelly Burgess
Dr. Moore also notes in his book that selecting a child's gender shouldn't be taken too seriously, but he thinks using his methods make trying that much more fun.
Wendell Hanson and his wife went into the whole process with that mindset. They, like the Varbles, knew that they were only going to have two children, so they decided to try for a boy using Dr. Moore's method. It worked for them, but Hanson says he wouldn't have cared if they'd had another girl either.
"The main thing we were praying for was that the baby be healthy, but liked the idea of having one of each," he says. "We're from a family that runs toward girls, so we felt we needed a little extra help to try to have a boy." Hanson says he would, and has, recommended the method to other couples.
Varble cautions that it's very important to follow Dr. Moore's techniques to the letter. She says it's not difficult, but it's the combination of the different approaches that are so effective.
"Dr. Moore was the anesthesiologist for a minor surgery that I had about a year before I got pregnant, and just as he was putting me under, I heard a nurse talking to him about how her daughter had tried his method and it hadn't worked," says Varble. "But then she started telling him how her daughter had done some of what he recommended but not all of it. When I woke up for some reason I remembered that and when I decided to try for a boy I was determined to follow every step. It worked for me."
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