Shettles method - did it work for you?

I know this is technically a TTC topic, but I want to hear from people who've already had their babies which is why I've put it in here. If that's too cheeky of me then feel free to move it


The Shettles method is a theory about how you can select the gender of your child through when you BD, the position you use etc. etc.

In a nutshell, it says that to get a girl you BD 2-4 days prior to ovulation, preferably in the missionary position, and to get a boy you BD no sooner than 12 hours before O in a 'deep penetration' position.

I'm curious to know who it might have worked for here, whether you were deliberately trying for a specific gender or not.

So - after a huge amount of pre-amble, here are my questions:
- Do you have a boy or a girl?
- On what day of your cycle did you BD, if you know?
- What position were you in? (don't answer this one if you don't want, it's fairly personal!!)

we didnt quite use this method but i knew i oved on day 8/9 so we did it every second day(day 6,8,9,10,11,13,15) and then every day 8/9/10/11 because I really wanted a boy (and it was the best way to catch the eggie:) and we got our boy:) position missionary as it was best for getting everything where it needed to go for me:)

With Jack it was sex at least once a day for a few weeks leading right up to o (he was a surprise so I don't know what day he was actually conceived but a lot of sex was had around that time ) and Its anyones guess what position.

Caprece was a once off I'm guessing a few days before o because I thought we were safe. Probably missionary.

As all my 3 were oopsie daiseys I have no idea on what day, what position etc SO unable to answer that. I however do just believe we are given what is meant to be ours. I have always known what my flavour was before finding out and I know my next one is going to be a girl (damn wanted it to be a boy).

- Do you have a boy or a girl? Girl
- On what day of your cycle did you BD, if you know? Bang on ovulation day
- What position were you in? (don't answer this one if you don't want, it's fairly personal!!) Good old missionary.

So in other words...didn't appeat it would have worked for us if we had been trying to use it...

I cant help with our personal situation as we dont know what our little one is yet but I know from talking to people of 4 couples who were trying for either a boy or girl using Shettles Method and all 4 couples got what they were trying for. I havent heard of anyone that was using this method and got the oposite of what they were trying for if that makes sense!

Boy, Day 14 (not sure what day I ovulate though as I wasn't testing for it), Missionary.
I'm definitely going to try this method next time, as I really want a girl --- so its worth a try! My doctor said she has helped over 200 couples now who wanted a particular gender (not with the first kid, she leaves that to chance) using this sort of method, and only 1 couple didn't get what they wanted .... so it sounds promising to me.