It is a commonly held belief that the timing of conception will indeed affect your baby’s gender. While there has not yet been a sufficient amount of convincing scientific study to be able to fully support this idea, parents who are hoping for a certain gender can certainly make an attempt to affect their baby’s gender with the timing of conception.

The most important way that the timing of conception will affect your baby’s gender is in how close to ovulation conception occurs. It is thought that conception before around 2 and a half days before ovulation will be more likely to result in having a girl, whereas conceiving after 2 and a half days before ovulation will be more likely to produce a baby of male gender.

The reason that the timing of conception in relation to ovulation can affect your baby’s gender is because of the nature of sperm. The sperm that carry the Y chromosome, which are the sperm that will produce a boy if they fertilize an egg, are thought to have a shorter lifespan than sperm that carry the X chromosome, which are the sperm that will produce a girl if they fertilize an egg. The “boy” sperm, however, are thought to be stronger and to swim faster than the “girl” sperm. Thus, conceiving farther away from conception makes it more likely that those sperm with the Y chromosome will die off before they can fertilize an egg, whereas conceiving closer to ovulation makes it more likely that those same sperm with the Y chromosome will out-swim the “girl” sperm, fertilizing the egg before the “girl” sperm can even get to it.

Unless a couple is going to have In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) because of a problem with fertility, timing conception is probably the best way to try to affect your baby’s gender. With IVF, there are other options that can be used to select gender. In addition, there are specific methodologies, such as the Shettles method, that can be used to give you an added edge in conceiving a baby of the gender that you would prefer.

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