While I’m not convinced that food alone can determine whether you will have a girl or boy baby or not, there is some evidence that it can indeed play a role in the chance of you conceiving a girl. Diet along with intercourse timing and different positions can help boost the odds in your favour of buying pink for the nursery.
Let’s talk a little about the science behind diet first. We all have heard that you are what you eat, and that certain foods can have different effects in the body. When it comes to conceiving a girl, the optimum environment for the female sperm to thrive in is acidic vaginal levels.
Therefore you would want to include such foods in the diet that increase the acidity of your vagina as well as the proper nutrients to ensure that you have a balanced diet full of the essential nutrients needed for both your personal health and your reproductive health.
According to a study by Oxford University the following findings regarding diet can increase your chances of conceiving a girl.
- High calorie diets are were more likely to product boys so if you are aiming for a girl – try and still to your daily limit for your weight and age.
- Breakfast eaters usually had boys, and those that skipped breakfast more often had girls.
- Eating cereal increased your odds of a boy while reducing the amount of cereals you ate to no more than 2 or 3 bowls a week favoured your chances of getting a girl.
So which foods should you diet on the Conceiving a Girl Diet?
- For breakfast, choose fruit smoothies, yoghurt, fruit and/or nuts.
- For other meals lean towards, fish, cheese, eggs, bread, fruits, vegetables (particular green leafy vege’s) and nuts.
- For drinks, try high acidic juices such as cranberry, orange or grapefruit juice.
- Avoid high calorie and sugary foods if possible.
It has been said that the diet for getting pregnant with a girl baby is far more healthy that that for conceiving a boy.
While following this diet, it is important that you take a supplement and eat a balanced diet to ensure optimum fertility.
With more and more couples putting off having a family until later in life, fertility for woman starting trying to conceive over the age of 35 has become a big issue.
But can age really affect fertility that much, and is it still possible to get pregnant naturally when you are older?
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Don’t know how to chart your BBT temperature or need a refresher course in what exactly Basal Body Temperature means? Then this article will go over some of the basics you need to know when charting your cycle and understanding the temperature changes that your body goes through.
Why measure your BBT?
If you have spent any time at all trying to conceive then you know that you need to know your exact ovulation day to increase your chances of getting pregnant each month, Continue reading “Basal Body Temperature (BBT) 101” »
Getting Pregnant can be easy for some people and a struggle for others, and medicine is still not giving us the clear answers as to why that is the case, but whether you will be trying for the first time, or have been trying to conceive for months (or even years) there are many things that you can do right now to maximize your fertility and know how to get pregnant faster and easier, so read on.
What to do before you conceive
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Knowing when you are most fertile is the best way to know when to get pregnant within your cycle. Every women is different and it’s simply not always a case that you ovulate on Day 14 (remember this is just an average), so by charting your daily basal body temperature you will start to get a good indication of your usual ovulation day.
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Cervical mucus / cervical fluid is one of the three primary fertility signs to getting pregnant according to Toni Weschler of Taking Charge of Your Fertility, with the others being charting your basal body temperature each morning and keeping track of your cervical position during your cycle.
In this post I’ll talk about how you can improve your chances of getting pregnant by increasing the amount and quality of your cervical fluid.
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If you want to know how to get pregnant fast then it’s not always simply a matter of trying for a baby a few times and crossing your fingers. There are ways to take control and improve your chances of getting pregnant each month by making a few small adjustments to your lifestyle and habits. This post will show you some of the top five ways that you can get pregnant faster.
1. Have Regular Enjoyable Sex
Many women fall into the notion that they should just try and have sex as close to ovulation as possible and while it’s true that you are only fertile when you ovulate, often times women get it all wrong about timing.
So to make sure that you catch that egg you need to be having regular intercourse at least three times a week, preferably every second day throughout your entire cycle. While that may seem like a lot of baby making, it actually works out around eleven times per cycle if you have a regular 28 day cycle and avoid intercourse during menstruation.
Women who fall pregnant easily usually have a very healthy sex life and enjoy lovemaking. Trying for a baby does sometimes make lovemaking seem like a chore but you can do things to help ignite the passion again such as romantic evenings, flirting and massages with your partner
2. Use Positions That Are Known For Better Conception
While there isn’t one ‘best’ position when it comes to getting pregnant, there are positions that can help improve your chances of sperm getting to where it is supposed to much easier. That includes missionary and rear entry.
In fact nearly any position that involves deeper penetration where the sperm is deposited as close to the cervix as possible will improve your chances of conceiving a baby.
3. Get Him to Wear Boxers
By getting your partner to wear boxer shorts instead of tight underwear and having him avoid hot showers or baths, you’ll be improving the health and potency of his sperm. If his sperm gets too hot they can often die off before ejaculation which makes getting pregnant increasingly difficult.
But don’t go to the other extreme and ask him to sit on icepacks because that will be too cold. Ideally by keeping his testes just one degree cooler has often been enough to help previously unsuccessful couples go on to have lots of babies and you can do that by him wearing boxers.
4. Keep Yourself Healthy
This one is a no brainer but by eating healthy foods and getting regular exercise you’ll not only improve your health but also your ability to conceive.
Many studies have shown that women who start an exercise program (walking and yoga have been shown to have the most success) reduce stress, improve circulation and balance hormones – all of which are extremely important to your fertility.
As an added benefit, you’ll find that your healthy body will have a much easier time during the pregnancy when you do get pregnant.
5. Drink Lots Of Water.
Did you know that dehydration affects your fertility? It’s true so make sure you keep up your liquids.
As an added benefit you’ll have more fertile egg white cervical mucus which is essential to improving your chances of making a baby.
Still Not Pregnant? What to Do Next
If you haven’t fallen pregnant within a year of trying then it’s possible that you or your partner may have something that is preventing you from conceiving.
It’s worth checking out by visiting your doctor or gynecologist; especially if it’s something that’s easily fixed and will allow you to go on to have a healthy happy baby. Sometimes it’s not enough knowing how to get pregnant fast, you just need a little helping hand.
Supplements That Help Fertility , Trying To Conceive (TTC)
Trying to Get Pregnant? The Top 4 Supplements You Might Need
Trying to get pregnant is a struggle and a reality for so many women (I know because I’m one of them) but there are things you can do to help improve your chances of getting pregnant such as diet, fertility supplements, ovulation timing and more. I’ve previously talked a bit about ovulation timing, so in this post I wanted to go over some of the better vitamin and herb supplements that have helped many women conceive naturally.
So if you have been asking yourself what supplements should I take to get pregnant, hopefully this post will answer all your questions.
Here are my top supplements to get pregnant:
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How To Conceive A Boy Baby
In my previous post about conceiving a boy I talked a lot about the Shettles Method of using timing to influence which sperm reaches the egg first and how to use that to your advantage when trying for a boy baby.
In this post I’ll go further into gender selection methods and how to conceive a boy naturally such as the ever popular Chinese method (prediction calendar) for a bit of fun and talk about the ways how to conceive a boy using diet and ph Levels. So let’s look at diet first.
Boy Diet: Foods to eat to conceive a boy baby
It has been said that there are certain foods to conceive a boy by helping make the cervical fluid (CF) more alkaline or acidic and to get a boy baby you need to make your CF more alkaline since that favors the Y chromosome sperm.
According to research by Oxford and Exeter universities, many first time mothers were studied according to their diets and the gender of their child and among the group the highest percentage of boys (56%) was to women who ate a high calorie, high potassium diet (which is a more alkaline diet).
In fact the study went on to look at other factors and nutrients and the more vitamins and nutrients that the mother took prior to conceiving the more likely she was to have a male child.
Foods that were particularly beneficial to having a healthy baby boy included:
- lots of potassium (banana’s are high in potassium);
- steak and potatoes;
- foods high in calories such as cake and biscuits; and also
- breakfast cereal every morning (according to some statistics you have an 87% chance of conceiving a baby boy by not skipping breakfast!)
Of course there have been no clinical trials on the effects of breakfast versus no breakfast for conceiving a boy or girl, but it makes sense since the Oxford study suggest the more nutrients you get the higher the chances of getting a boy.
Of course diet isn’t the only thing that can influence whether you will conceive a boy or girl, but if it moves the odds in your favor just a tiny bit it’s worth trying along with all the other methods for falling pregnant with a boy baby.
Orgasm: pH levels for getting pregnant with a boy baby
As I mentioned earlier, a more alkaline pH level is much better for conceiving a boy and there are few ways that you can achieve that without douching (douching can cause health problems and may even lead to infertility in extreme cases).
The absolute best way that you can quickly change the pH level of your reproductive tract is to have an orgasm. Yes the good news is that as soon as the woman has climaxed the fluid she produces makes the pH levels much more favorable to having a boy. And it’s a much more fun way on how to conceive a baby boy naturally than changing your diet and eating more red meat and salty snacks!
Using the Chinese Gender Chart for How to Conceive a Boy Baby
And I couldn’t go past a little bit of ancient eastern tradition with the Chinese Calendar Gender Chart which takes into account both the month that you conceive and the mother’s age at time of conception.
Many people claim it is successful 90% of the time to help you have a baby boy, but I’m not quite convinced. At any rate it can be a fun way to determine what baby you will have. Here’s the Chinese gender chart that shows what you will have according to when you should conceive:
All of these tips from this how to conceive a boy to my previous conceiving a boy post should give you lots of information for getting the little boy that you are trying to get pregnant for.
Lately there has been more and more interest in the O+12 method for conceiving a girl so I thought I’d go into a bit more detail about it, and let you know its success rates.
As I’ve already mentioned on this blog, the O+12 method for conceiving a girl states that you must have intercourse around twelve hours after ovulation to increase your chances of getting a female baby (this method doesn’t work with trying for a boy baby).
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A few weeks back I wrote a post about how to conceive a girl baby and talked about both The Shettles Method for conceiving a girl and the O+12 method. I also briefly touched on the Whelan Method but to be fair didn’t write about it as much as Shettles because I didn’t have all the information.
So this post I’m going to go into more detail on the Whelan Method and also look at some other sex selection theories as well so you have all the information.
If you are trying to get pregnant, you probably want to know some different methods in getting pregnant that people have used successfully. Well I’ve done a few searches online and it seems that there isn’t a ‘guaranteed’ way to conceive a baby but there are a few things to help sway the odds into your favor so you have a better chance of getting pregnant.
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