Can You Control Your Baby’s Gender?
Today there are many reasons why a couple may seek to influence the gender of their next child. Reasons range from trying to balance their family to just a simple preference for one gender. There are things you can do before the mother gets pregnant in order to influence the baby’s gender, keep in mind that gender selection is a very personal decision and not one that should be judged by others.
For centuries there have been stories told of how to determine or control a baby’s gender and certainly many of these stories were not based in any scientific fact or understanding of the process of conception. It was a wide belief that women picked the gender of their baby because they are the ones that could carry life. People believed that it was something about the woman’s system or insides that made the baby what is was, good or bad. The baby being female or male is now known to be determined by the chromosomes that the father contributes to the egg and not based on the mothers at all.
There’s really not much that the father can do to control or influence the baby’s gender. Rather the best method to do this is to think of the sperm that has the Y chromosome for the male moves faster but it is destroyed more rapidly in contrast to the X chromosome for females that moves slower but it survives longer. What this translates into is that the sperm which carry the Y chromosome for boys can move more quickly but have a shorter life expectancy than their counterparts which carry the X chromosomes for girls. The vaginal pH can either kill or preserve sperm; pH that is more alkaline will preserve sperm which can influence a baby’s gender. This gives the “boy sperm” more of a chance to reach an egg to fertilize. If the PH of the vagina has more acid in it then it will destroy the more delicate sperm and give the female sperm a better chance to get on an egg so it can be fertilized.
There is absolutely no proven method to ensure your choice of a baby’s gender. Even scientific methods used during in vitro fertilization is not completely dependable when it comes to a baby’s gender, so always be prepared for either a boy or a girl!