How Do I Have A Male Or Female Child?

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Are you pregnant? Do you like eating poultry and red meat, and talking about wordplay? Well, then you’re obviously carrying a boy. Like dancing and music? It’s a girl. Male and female sperm are very different, behaving in different ways in response to their environment. By attaching these differences, we can increase the chances in our favor and use natural ways to have a baby girl or boy and one good starting point is to understand these differences.

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Girl: Female sperm is much larger than male sperm due to the increased amount of genetic material it carries. It is much slower than male sperm, but can survive for longer. It also thrives better than the more fragile male sperm in the acidic vaginal environment.  Once you have determined your ovulation date (using ovulation predictor kit) you should have intercourse on the lead up to ovulation, but not on the day of ovulation itself. This is because if it is a straightforward race to a newly released egg, then the male sperm is likely to win. However, if it is a case of "waiting around" for the egg to be released, the female sperm can survive better. Other natural ways to have a baby girl revolve around dietary modification. Eating foods which encourage acidity can favor girl sperm, so include lots of leafy green vegetables, grapefruits, apples and seafood.

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Boy: Male sperm has different characteristics to female sperm. It is much faster and smaller. However, it is less robust and can be easily harmed by the acidic vaginal environment. Natural ways to have a baby boy revolve around exploiting the strength of the male sperm (its speed) and even using its weaknesses to our advantage too. First of all, you should determine when you are ovulating and to be very accurate, use a predictor kit. Once you know when this is, have intercourse on the day of ovulation itself and the day afterwards. This is because once the egg is "there" and ejaculation happens, it is little more than a "race" to the egg and this is one which is more likely to win. As the acidic vaginal environment does not favor male sperm, you can make it more alkaline by eating certain foods, such as apricots, figs, baked potatoes, bananas and raisins.

Below You Would Find Other Old Fashioned Ways To Determine The Sex

Human sex differentiation is dictated by the XX/XY system. The egg cell (we’ll call her Patience) contains one lady-making X chromosome; the sperm (let’s call him Akpos) can carry either an X or a Y chromosome. When Akpos meets Patience (see what we did there?), whether they’ll make a boy or a girl is dependent on which chromosome Akpos is packing. The Y chromosome stimulates testis formation in the fetus, and thus male sexual development; no Y chromosome, the gonads become ovaries and you’ve got yourself a girl.

1. Ways to Game the System

The Distaff Gospels is a collection of medieval European women’s medical lore recorded in the late 15th century; it’s also responsible for the above gender stereotyping about jousting and dancing. The Gospels recommended having the man turn his face towards the east during sex if the couple is trying for a boy; to have sex in the morning if you’re aiming for a boy and in the evening and night if you want a girl; or not to have sex right after a meal if you want a boy.

2. The way you walk

Walk with your right foot first, you’re having a boy; the opposite, you’re having a girl. This was according to the Distaff Gospels again—a wonderful source for medically questionable stunners, some of which were, if not exactly prescient or accurate, at least well-intentioned: For example, the Gospels cautioned that if at the hour of conception, “neither feels affectionate love for the other, a female of bitter disposition is born.”

3. The salt test

The Gospels again: “When a woman is carrying a child and she wishes to know whether she is carrying a boy or a girl, you should sprinkle salt on her head while she is sleeping, so gently that she is unaware of it. When she wakes, note what name she says first. If she says a man’s name it will be a boy and if she says a woman’s name it will be a girl.”

4. Ask Mom

“If a pregnant woman wants to know the gender of the child she is bearing, listen to her and she will reveal it herself,” the Gospels said. “When she asks: ‘What do you think I am carrying?’, if you say: ‘A lovely boy’, and she does not blush, you should know for sure that she will have a girl.” Blushing aside, there is some evidence that women have a sort of mother’s intuition about what’s going on in there: According to The Sun, a study found that women with no prior knowledge of their baby’s gender guess the sex correctly 71 percent of the time. Presumably, these researchers did not ask the mothers-to-be by using the “key test”—place a key in front of an expecting mother and if she grabs it by the fat end, she’s having a boy, and by the narrow end, a girl.

5. Morning sickness

This is one of those old wives’ tales that is not only literally an old wives’ tale (the women in the Distaff Gospels were old and wives), but is also believed today—the idea that how and when you are sick when you’re pregnant can give some clue as to whether it’s a boy or a girl. According to the Gospels, you’re sicker in the first three months with a girl than with a boy, but a boy causes pain after the first trimester. But according to current medical professionals, if you suffer badly from morning sickness (a horrible misnomer if there ever was one) or are ill throughout your pregnancy, you’re more likely to be carrying a girl.

6. Fat daddy?

According to myth, if the father piles on the pounds during the mother’s pregnancy, then she’s carrying a girl; interestingly, Danish researchers conducted a study of 100 fathers-to-be and discovered that indeed, those who had little girls were heavier at their births than those who had boys.

7. Sweet or sour?

Because girls are naturally sweet, if you’re carrying one, you’ll crave sweet foods; boys, being made of snips and snails and puppy dogs’ tails, make you crave sour and salty foods. 

8. One Ring to Bind Them…

When you’re not using your gold ring to enslave Middle Earth, you could possibly use it to determine the sex of your unborn child. Perhaps the most popular gender determination myth is that a gold ring suspended on a string over a pregnant woman’s belly will tell you what she’s carrying by how it swings: Side to side for a boy, circular for a girl. It’s not always accurate, of course, but will be right 50 percent of the time.