You Can Choose A Boy Or Girl With the Shettles Method
February 3, 2010 by Jerri Singleton
Filed under pregnancy
The late Dr. Landrum Shettles developed a baby gender selection method that he felt was “best supported by scientific evidence”.
He authored a best selling book explaining his three step baby gender selection methods called How To Choose The Sex Of Your Baby. You can find a link to the book at my site below. Dr. Shettles claimed a 75%-90% success rate using his methods. You’ll find ebooks offered also that use Dr. Shettles methods as well as other baby gender prediction techniques, that have given many thousands of couples an even higher success rate of up to 98% in choosing the sex of their babies.
Dr Shettles method is takes advantage of the fact that it’s the man’s sperm that ultimately determines the sex of your baby. Why? Because the womans egg only carries one set of chromosomes (xx) or all girl! While the man’s sperm comes in either the (xy) configuration which results in a girl baby, or the (yy) which results in a boy baby. Also Dr Shettles realized that the girl sperm was physically larger, slower, and much stronger (or longer lived) than the boy sperm which conversely is the smaller, faster, and more fragile (dies off quicker) of the two.
The doctor also realized that timing of intercourse, and the depth of penetration during conceptual intercourse could help to determine if the resulting baby was a boy or girl. The mother-to-be will have to track her day of ovulation precisely in order to time conceptual intercourse precisely as well.
If a boy baby is desired abstain from sex until the day before ovulation, and abstain again the second day after ovulation. Also when trying to conceive a boy sexual positions that allow deep penetration are best (“doggie style” or missionary position with the woman’s legs extended up towards her head.) Why is this? Because of the differences in the two sperm. This timing, and deep penetration allows the fast swimming boy sperm to win the race to the fresh waiting egg, resulting in the boy baby you want.
If a girl baby is desired, the couple should have sex practicing only shallow penetration, and abstain from sex for a couple of days before ovulation and until a couple of days after ovulation. Here again this gives the short lived boy sperm to much time and distance to survive and allows the slow but longer lived girl sperm a time and distance advantage, and assures (hopefully) conceiving a girl baby.
Dr Shettles determined that vaginal acidity also plays a role in which sperm succeeds in fertilizing the egg. He found that a lower ph (higher acidity) favored the girl sperm and a higher ph (lower acidity) favored the survival of the boy sperm.
Don’t leave anything to chance (if you are serious about choosing the gender of your baby.) You’ll need a guide to take you through the entire process step by step. You’ll find these guides at my website, so pick one up and raise your chance of success from a mere 50/50 to well over 90%!
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