If you’re trying to figure out how to conceive a boy, know that there are no methods that are guaranteed to work, but there are certainly a few ways that can greatly increase your chance of success:
- Have sex at the right time: It seems that the choice of the day you have sex can determine the gender of your unborn child. If you have sex just before or during ovulation, the child is likely to be a man, and if you make love two to three days before ovulation, you will benefit the X sperm and your child will likely be a woman. This happens because the X sperm is more resistant than the other and may still be viable when the egg is released.
- Getting Pregnant in the Fall: It may sound unbelievable, but gender selection can depend on the seasons of the year, at least to some degree. The greater fragility and vulnerability of male fetuses can be offset by the greater probability of conceiving a child in certain months of the year. The research from the Polyclinic of Modena, published in “Human Reproduction”, studied 14,000 births over a period of 6 years. The results were fascinating, because they showed a clear difference in the conception of male children at certain times of the year. In short: you are more likely to conceive a boy if you try to get pregnant between September and November and you are more likely to conceive a girl if conception occurs between March and May. The study confirms the hypothesis that male conception occurs less frequently, when conditions are not optimal. This can occur due to differences in the speed of development: the cells of a male embryo seem to divide more quickly and have a faster metabolism. Precisely for this reason, nature can favor the conception of females, if the mother’s body is not strong enough to provide the male fetus with all the energy it needs. This is also shown by the fact that ex-smokers and people who have been subjected to environmental pollution are more likely to have daughters.
- Change your diet: It seems that maternal nutrition can affect the characteristics of the egg membrane, favoring one type of sperm over another. There is a study published in a serious scientific journal that shows a correlation between the mother’s diet and the sex of the child. The author claimed that he was able to determine the sex of the child in 80% of cases, when the woman followed a strict diet for two months before conception. Generally speaking, a diet high in salt and meat serves the sperm carrying the Y chromosome and thus produces male children, and a diet low in salt, high in dairy products, leads to the conception of females.