Conception of Boys and Girls - the practical not the theory

[Trillian]

Our first was a pleasant surprise, so can't help you with that one (and he was a boy). When we were TTC our next one we DTD every second day from CD14 till the end of the appearance of EWCM (I didn't really have much of an idea about my cycle at that point apart from it being 36days long, just knew that we should probably do it lots LOL) and we got pg first cycle and she was a girl. We did the same thing when TTC our 3rd and got another girl first cycle. On both of those times we weren't trying to gender sway at all. I have since realised however in the months before TTCing #4 when I paid close attention to my cycle that I don't O until the EWCM is gone and I get O pain about 2 days after it's gone. So when TTC #4, we didn't DTD till the EWCM was gone and as soon as I started getting O pain we DTD. We did it two nights in a row and we got a boy. We knew there wasn't any certain way of gender sawying but we thought we'd give it a shot and if it turned out in our favour great (as it did) but if it didn't then no drama. That's just how it worked out for us though.

[Olive]

with DD i ovulated on day 18 of a 32 day cycle, we DTD the night before and had a girl.
this time i ovulated day 9 of a 21 day cycle and again DTD the night before.... will let you know in around 8 weeks what we have!

[SamiH]

#1 - didn't know anything about timing we had a boy
#2 - O'd day 13 - DTD 9,10 then 13 - girl swimmers obviously there already cos we had a girl
#3 - DTD the day before O'd - and two days earlier - another boy - boys were quicker this time LOL

[Tanya]

Problem is there is more to timing than just timing of BD and O. If you read some of the swaying info (including Shettles) they will tell you that if you want to conceive a boy the Man must not abstain for no more than four days before your 'attempt'... at which point Y sperm begin to die. However there is also some stats saying that abstaining for more than four weeks (I think, don't hold me too it) that more boys are conceived.

Another thing to think about is that LOTS of boys (can't remember the %, but in comparison to girls on a full moon it is a VERY high % rate) are conceived on a full moon

There is more info on this but I can't remember it off the top of my head.

ETA:
DD#1 no idea
DD#2 no idea (LOL... however I had just come off the pill and aparently the pill make the womans internal environment more acidic )
DD#3 3 days before O
DD#4 DTD day of O

[myson]

we dtd one time in the month... two days before i Oed. and we got a boy. exactly what we wanted. but i did a lot more than just timing to try and make it happen.

some have said they got a girl when they dtd on the day they o. Which may seem a contradiction to the 48 hrs rule but....there is also the theory that if you dtd 12 hrs after the release of the egg you are more likely for a girl as environment changes dramatically as soon as you o. So those who got girls on O day probably had sperm reaching egg AFTER release of egg... not sperm waiting for egg to arrive.....

really hope that makes some kind of sense ... i am so jumbled up today!

[visitor1]

#1 We DTD 3 days before i O'd in a 28 day cycle and we had a girl
#2 We DTD alot abut 2 weeks after DD1's birth so no idea and we had another girl
#3 We DTD on the day i O'd and the day after of a 28 day cycle and we are having a boy

[NaeNae]

Hmmm interesting Thanks so much to all who have replied so far, keep the replies coming the more info the better

Tanya - I have read all the gender swaying stuff its pretty interesting.

I am just curious about how it works in real life whether timing DOES in fact make a difference so all the responses have been very very interesting