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Preconception.com's Advisory Panel Answers:
Is there any way to
increase my chance of having a baby boy?
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Shirley Moore Certified Nurse-Midwife Women's Health Specialists, Chicago |
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Is there any way to increase my chance of having a baby boy? Ruba, Jordan |
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There are several books on the market that discuss a variety of techniques you can try at home to enhance conception of a specific gender. One that I have recommended in the past is Boy or Girl by Elizabeth Whelan. Another (much older) resource is The Preconception Gender Diet by Langendoen & Proctor. Since the sperm determines the gender, most of these techniques encourage activities that will promote viability of one type of sperm (X or Y) over the other. They may include such things as changing your or your partner's diet, specific douches, types of clothing to wear, and sexual positions. In my practice, I have seen a wide range of success, about 60 to 80 percent. There are some infertility specialists who are willing to do sperm selection through a technique of spinning the sperm. The sperm sort by weight and therefore genetic material, and then inseminate with the separated sperm. There is no guarantee that you will separate all of the sperm equally, so success rate varies with this technique and it can be very expensive. |
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