Does anyone have any experience or opinions on gender selection? I have two beautiful little girls. My husband and I want to have one more child and would love for it to be a boy.
Thank you in advance for your help.
As many have said, use the Chinese gender chart. When I was pregnant with my first child, I did a survey of 127 people and 124 of them were abosolutely correct and matched the chart. It was also correct for my second child who is a girl and it too was one month in between like 7 for a boy and it was a girl. It might be coincidence, but in any case, numbers speak!
This isn't, of course, 100% proven, but I did research on gender selection and discovered that acidity or alkalinity in the mother and father's diets/bodies can affect the sex of the baby. More acidity is supposed to yield girls, and alkalinity is supposed to yield boys.
Worked for me - my husband and I went alkaline and had a boy.
This will sound silly, but my research shows it to work. The iVillage.com version of the Chinese Gender Chart is what we used to get our boy. I traced it against everyone I know's birthdays and it worked to predict the sex for everyone from me and my siblings, to cousins, to neices and nephews. There are only 2 people I have found that it didn't trace back correctly for and that's one of my nephews and a sister-in-law. The sister-in-law's kids are correct though and so are the nephew's 3 siblings. There is more than one Chinese Gender Chart out there though. My other sister-in-law was trying for a girl after having a boy and used another version. She had another boy and the version I use predicted that. You can also check out the iVillage forums. The question was asked once about the accuracy of the Chart and tons of people responded. Good luck to you!
My sister followed one -I think it was, "How to choose the sex of your child." She followed it to a T and it did not work. 3 girls! I gave up on the theory after that since I know how anal she is.
My girlfriend tried this and ended up with two more boys. Gender selection is not 100 percent gaurenteed. I feel God will give you the child he wants you to have. Both of her boys have medical problems. Mess with fate and you never know what you will end up with. I suggest either be happy with the two girls you have or to take a chance and accept what you end up with. I would not mess with gender selection.
I dont know much about the specific practice of it. But I personally I think that if its something you want to try, and theres no harm to your body or your impending baby, then go for it! I cant get over the judgeful and spiteful remarks on here. I have heard also about the alkaline thing, and have a few friends that used some charts and stuff. Most couples ended up getting what they were hoping for, and one couple didnt, but OF COURSE still happy about the child. I mean, its not like they or you are going to not love, or abort your baby based on sex! So why not try to get a boy if its safe? Good luck to you! ~k
An easy way to do gender selection is to adopt. that way you get what God intended and not what you think you need.
If you want to select the gender of your baby, then I suggest you consider adoption. Plenty of children of both sexes need good homes. Otherwise, if you are fortunate enough to have a healthy baby of your own, I simply suggest that you love him or her to the fullest and thank God every day for the opportunity to be a parent. My husband and I lost our precious little boy to a medical condition, and I know what I am talking about here. Good luck.
I have a boy and a girl and didn't really care about the child's gender, so take this with a grain of salt. And I do not mean at all to criticize, and apologize in advance if it comes out that way.
The thing about babies is that you never know whom you're getting. You do everything to have a healthy pregnancy - but you don't control everything - so you have a trait that is inconvenient here and an absolute gift of 'can't figure out what I did to deserve that but wow!' there. We hope for and usually get more of the second.). And then the child is born, and even more things you can't control come into the mix. It doesn't change your job description (love and accept, work within the child's capacity, keep appreciating those 'bonuses') at all. So maybe think of the child's gender as an early exercise in facing all those curve balls that are actually a good thing, as they mean that you and your husband have succeeded in bringing into the world an independent human being.
And good luck with your intended pregnancy!
I have 2 girls, 10 & 12. I want another baby as well. I would like a boy. I to have done a lot of research and the shettles book is a hard read, but it explaind everything. Plan ahead and Good Luck
