Choosing the gender of your baby-Is gender determination an old wives tale
Choosing the gender of your baby-Is gender determination an old wives tale
Gender determination has always been a touchy subject about which some people have very strong views. Personally I don't see the problem in using natural methods of gender selection.
So is it possible to choose the sex of a baby before you conceive? Or is gender selection an old wives tale?
Well my wife used a method that involved eating red meat every day and an acidic foods diet. The theory here is that a womans vagina has a mucous lining so with the right diet this mucous will be either alkaline or acid (acid for a girl and alkaline for a boy).
In her case it was acid which allows the stronger female sperm to pass through but kills the not so strong male ones. Anyway she kept up the diet for one month without allowing any sex, the results were that she conceived a girl. I guess it could just have been the law of averages but she is convinced that the natural gender selection method played a part in the gender determination.
There are a few other natural ways of predicting baby gender such as ovulation calculators or the shuttles method. Of them all the figures claim that the shuttles method of choosing baby gender is the best with a claimed 80% success ratio.
To say gender determination is an old wives tale would be harsh but on the other hand there is no absolute proof that it works. Those who have used it and given birth to the baby of their choice will say it works while those who have tried gender selection methods and it has failed will say it doesn't work.
I guess it's one of those things that can never really be proven one way or another but my wife still insists that gender determination is possible.