Timing to select gender

Hi

First up I would like to say I am asking this out of curiosity rather than any strong desire to have a specific gender of baby. I would be thrilled to have either. BUT I have read on a few websites that if you bd at different phases of cycle you are more likely to have a boy or girl - I think it is earlier for a girl and just on ovulation for a boy - something about the strength of the different swimmers.....?

(one example is this website:http://www.thebabywebsite.com/ovulationCalendar.php)

Has anyone tried this? has it worked? I'm just really curious. I didn't know it worked that way I just thought it was totally random.

Thoughts?

yeh i have heard that as well appearently its because the girls are slower swimmers but last longer where the boys are fast swimmers and die earlier. so if you bd bang on OVing its more likely to be a boy becasue they would get there faster where if you BD'ed the day before most of the boys would be dead where the girls are still going and more likely to be the winner. lol

You would have to be pretty sure of your timing to make it work.

this site has a few ways... natural gender selection

the O+12 sounds a bit tricky to me... you could easily miss Ov and you'd have to be really sure when Ov is...

http://www.ovulation-calendar.net/

Like this one

We followed the shettles method, not first time as we were awaiting my fertility appt so don't really know when I ov'd but the dates would say we did what you would do for a boy. This time we thought it would be fun to try for a girl so by charting (temp and CM) we did it. I was on clomid and had been temping for months so I knew when I was due to ov etc if it was going to happen at all.

Great website Aliasmum...  I like the way it forecasts ov time, fertile time and gender timing for the next cycles

We used the timing method and it worked for us. If your cycle is irregular (like mine) and you want a girl, you bd 3 days before you would ov (14 days before the last day of your cycle) in you're shortest cycle (and move a day closer if that doesn't work next cycle) but it worked for us first month. I tracked my cycle for about 4-5 months before we tried. We only had one bd per child - Jake on ov day and Morgan 3 days prior.

My doc has told this method to hundreds of her patients and only one didn't get what they wanted - so I believe it works if done properly (ie 3 days out for a girl).

Well we mucked up this month but if we dont get UTD I will doing what you suggested emz.. it was the plan I just thought I was about to ov and didnt then had to get another bd in to make sure we got a baby LOL.