How to choose the sex of the child in advance. Is it possible to plan the gender of the child? Planning by maternal age

One of the important questions asked by a couple who decide to become parents is the gender of the unborn baby. It often happens that a child of one sex is preferred over another. Then planning the gender of the child, girl or boy, comes to the fore. Spouses are looking for any information that can help them plan the gender of the baby in advance. But when choosing it, it is worth considering that not all methods have a scientific basis. Some, “folk” ones, are based on prejudices that have nothing to do with reality.

Traditional methods

Let's start with them. But it is worth considering that gender planning in such ways has not been confirmed by anything, and therefore their “effectiveness” is a simple coincidence or the result of the fact that the spouses were determined to have a child of a certain gender, and they got it. But if you believe in the effectiveness of these methods, then it is quite possible that you will be able to plan the gender of your future baby.

To get a male baby, you need to follow these recommendations:

• in even years of life, plan the baby for odd months, and vice versa;
• follow a certain diet: eat meat, fish, fruits, potatoes, but exclude dairy products and crabs and shrimp from the diet;
• during sexual intercourse, a man must achieve orgasm earlier than his wife;
• Before sexual intercourse, a man needs to wash his testicles with cold water to stimulate the activity of the reproductive cells.

Planning for a future female child is accompanied by the following recommendations:

• the year of life and the month of planning must be either even or not, but must coincide;
• the diet should include dairy products, fish, bread, vegetables, and you need to exclude salt and spices, limit the consumption of meat;
• it is believed that girls are more likely to appear where a woman loves a man more than he loves her;
• Before sexual intercourse, the husband needs to warm the testicles to reduce sperm activity.

These methods are rather dubious, but if you think that in war all means are good, then why not try?

Japanese and Chinese methods

Chinese table

It is not known exactly what data the Chinese table relies on to determine the sex of a child and its planning before conception, but scientists from the Beijing Institute of Science insist that its accuracy is 98%. There is speculation that this method is based on the Chinese lunar calendar. Others argue that it is based on research conducted in ancient China.

According to the table, the sex of the unborn baby can be determined by knowing the age of the mother and the month of conception. To plan the gender of your child using this table, you need to select the age at which you want to give birth to a child, and, having found the icon in the table that indicates the gender you need, plan conception for this particular month.

Japanese table

Planning the gender of the child according to the Japanese table is another option. This method is based on the assumption that a man produces more Y or X chromosomes over a certain period of time. But it is worth considering that the Japanese method only speaks about the likelihood of having a child of one gender or another.

The Japanese table consists of two parts. In the first, the months of birth of both parents are found, and a number is indicated at their intersection. In the second table, the resulting figure and the estimated month of conception are found. If the graph deviates strongly towards a child of one gender, for example, a boy, then the probability of conceiving a boy is highest. If the graphs are approximately the same, then the probability is the same for children of both sexes, depending on your luck. But it is worth considering that the tables given do not guarantee the birth of a child of a certain gender.

Blood renewal method

According to some reports, the effectiveness of this method is about 70%. Its essence is as follows: it is a scientifically known fact that the blood is periodically renewed. Moreover, for women this period is three years, and for men – four. If there was a large blood loss - childbirth, surgery, blood transfusion, then you need to count from this moment, and not from birth.

You can calculate what gender a child should be born like this: divide the mother’s age by 3, and the father’s age by 4. In the result obtained, you need to pay attention to the remainder: a larger number indicates “fresher” blood. If the mother has it, then a girl will be born, if the father has a boy.

Attention! If the mother has Rh-negative blood, then the calculations need to be done differently: the woman’s age is divided by 4, and the man’s by 3.

We focus on the time of ovulation

The difference between the method that focuses on the time of ovulation and all previous ones is that it is based on proven scientific data. But you should understand that planning a future male or female child is an exciting, but not always controllable activity. Therefore, this method also cannot be taken as a 100% guarantee.

To understand the essence of the method, you need to know about some differences between the X and Y chromosomes. It lies in the fact that the X chromosomes, that is, future girls, are slower than the Y chromosomes. But at the same time, they live longer and are more resilient. Based on this, planning to conceive a female child should be postponed until the time before ovulation. X chromosomes can live for 3-4 days, so it is better to have sexual intercourse 1-2 days before. This way the girl cells will be strong enough to fertilize the egg. Moreover, only “surviving” X chromosomes will most likely remain in the woman’s reproductive tract.

If a couple is trying to conceive a boy, then planning a future child should be postponed directly until the time of ovulation. In this case, the nimble and fast “boys” will get ahead of their heavy and slow “sisters”.

Note! Abstain from sexual intercourse four to five days before ovulation, then the likelihood of conceiving a boy will increase.

But there is a difficulty in this method: you need to know exactly the time of ovulation. How to determine it? Some women literally feel certain signs: pain in the lower abdomen, the nature and amount of discharge from the genital tract, nausea, increased libido. But for greater reliability, you can use tests on or monitor your basal temperature - on the day of ovulation it will increase sharply.

There is another explanation why planning the sex of the child according to the time of ovulation can be considered effective. This is explained by the fact that before ovulation, the pH of vaginal discharge has a detrimental effect on the Y chromosomes. And during ovulation, the pH changes, and this environment promotes the survival of the “boy” sperm.

Poses for conception

Choosing a position for conception is rather a continuation of the previous method, in which planning the sex of the baby is carried out on a certain day. Additionally, you can use certain poses to make planning the baby’s gender most effective.

Planning for a future female child includes choosing positions with shallow penetration - this makes the path to the egg longer. This means that the Y chromosomes have less chance of getting to the target. And for slower girls with greater endurance, this path will not be difficult. The most acceptable position is “missionary”.

But planning to conceive a male child, on the contrary, involves positions with deep penetration. This will significantly shorten the path for male cells. Then the “weak” but fast sperm boys will have time to reach the egg before they weaken and die. You can use the following poses:

1. Knee-elbow. The woman takes a knee-elbow position, the man comes up from behind;
2. The woman lies on her back, with a pillow placed under her hips. The man is on top.

This method only “works” if used in combination with calculating the time of ovulation.

To plan the gender of the child, you can use all methods at once, or each one separately. None of the methods - neither Chinese or Japanese tables, nor the ovulation time method, nor folk methods - give a 100% guarantee. It is up to the future parents to decide which one to use. But even if the child turns out to be the wrong gender, you shouldn’t despair, because this is your dearest little person!

Maria Sokolova

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Today we will tell you about the most modern and effective methods of planning the sex of a child.

Clinical methods for planning the gender of a child

Modern medicine has several effective methods for planning the sex of a child, which give a fairly high probability of having the desired son or daughter. However they are all connected with new reproductive technologies , and therefore are not very cheap.

Non-clinical methods for planning the gender of a child

Such methods are available to all segments of the population, but their effectiveness has not been confirmed by scientific research, and they do not have clear statistics. This means that there are no guarantees that the forecast will come true.

• Ovulation method

  This method is quite effective - 80% of cases. However, for planning to be successful, it is necessary to determine the exact day of ovulation. The method itself is based on the difference between sperm with a Y chromosome and an X chromosome. The latter reach the egg much faster than the former. But sperm with an X chromosome are tenacious; they can exist in the fallopian tubes for several days. Therefore, if you want to conceive a son, you need to stop sexual relations 7 days before ovulation. And they need to be resumed exactly on the day of ovulation. But if you want to have a daughter, then stop having sex 2 days before ovulation.

• Blood renewal theory

  This theory is based on the cyclical renewal of the body of a man and a woman, depending on the date of birth. For women, this process occurs once every three years, and for men - once every four years. To correctly plan the gender of the baby, you need to divide the mother’s age by 3, the father’s age by 4. Compare the remainder, whose smaller is the same as the gender of the unborn child. That is, the baby will have the gender of the parent whose blood was later renewed.

• Chinese baby gender planning calendar. Floor planning table

  Ancient Chinese tables for planning the sex of a child - no matter how strange it may sound, but the percentage of reliability of this method is quite high - 20% . According to this table, the sex of the child depends on the month of conception and the age of the mother. You can check the table using the age and month of conception of the child of your friends or relatives.
  

• Japanese method of planning the gender of a child. Floor planning table

  The method is based on the month the baby was conceived and the age of his future parents. First, you need to find in the table the number of non-intersecting months of birth of the father and mother.
  
  Then we find the resulting number in the vertical column on the left of the graph, and opposite it, in the line we find the month of conception. Then, look at the graph opposite the month of conception. If it falls in the lower half, then you will have a girl, and if it falls in the upper half, you will have a boy. In this case, the probability of correct planning increases with the amplitude of deviation from the middle.
  
  
  This method has very low efficiency, only 5-6% . But since it does not harm the health of the expectant mother and baby, it has every right to exist.

The sex ratio is very subtly regulated by nature itself. But despite this, women try to plan the gender of their unborn child in all known ways. And already pregnant women resort to all sorts of methods to determine the sex of the conceived child.

Well, there really are ways to determine and plan the sex of an unborn child, but not all of them have received scientific confirmation.

A site for moms will tell you about the most common and plausible ones, and you can check their authenticity.

1. Determining the sex of the child by the shape of the abdomen

Believe me, your loved ones will predict the gender of your unborn child based on the shape of your belly! It is believed that a sharp belly means a boy, while a round belly means the birth of a girl.

In fact, the shape of a pregnant woman’s abdomen is individual, and when determining the sex of the unborn child, you should not rely only on this method. Although coincidences happen quite often.

2. According to the appearance and well-being of the pregnant woman

• If a pregnant woman blossoms, her hair is shiny, her skin is soft and smooth, then they say that there will be a boy.
• If the expectant mother’s appearance becomes worse, she constantly looks tired, then a girl will be born. It’s as if the future daughter is taking away her mother’s beauty. This is partly true. Female hormones go towards the development of a girl.
• If a pregnant woman suffers from severe toxicosis, then a boy will be born. Simply because it is more difficult for a woman to carry a child of the opposite sex in her stomach.

This method is also not considered 100% reliable.

3. Determining gender using a pendulum

In this case, you need to tie a ring or needle to a thread and hold it over the pregnant woman’s belly. After some time, the pendulum will begin to swing. If from side to side in a straight line, then there is a boy in the womb. If it's in a circle, it will be a girl.

For those parents who believe in this kind of method of determining the gender of the unborn child, and did not do it for the sake of experiment, the pendulum gives the correct results.

4. Ultrasound

Ultrasound examination allows future parents to find out the sex of the child already in the first trimester of pregnancy. It is harmless for both the baby and the mother.

However, sometimes technical difficulties arise when determining the sex of a child using ultrasound. For example, with a breech presentation of the fetus or a small amount of amniotic fluid. And then the doctors themselves may either make a mistake or be unable to say anything at all. But this is still rare.

The accuracy of this method is 100%, and the “older” the fruit, the more accurate the results.

5. Determination of sex in early pregnancy (amniocentesis)

In the first weeks of pregnancy, it is allowed to determine the sex of the child only for strict medical reasons - if a hereditary disease associated with the sex of the child is suspected. This procedure involves some risk.

For the study, it is necessary to puncture the fetal egg or chorion tissue and genetically study the resulting material. The same study determines the gender of the child.

6. Planning the gender of the unborn child based on the date of ovulation

This planning method is based on the influence of the X and Y chromosomes on the sex of the child.

As is known, the sperm carrying the Y chromosome (responsible for the birth of a boy) is more mobile than the sperm carrying the X chromosome (girl), and therefore has a greater chance of reaching the egg earlier. But a sperm with an X chromosome is more viable and can survive longer in the fallopian tube, “waiting” for ovulation.

Therefore, it is necessary to determine the date of upcoming ovulation as accurately as possible - measure basal temperature over several menstrual cycles or buy special tests (test strips) at the pharmacy. When the day of ovulation is determined, you can make a simple calculation to plan the gender of the unborn child.

• If future parents want a girl, then the last sex should be no later than 2-3 days before ovulation.
• If a boy is planned, then abstinence is recommended during the week before ovulation, and sexual intercourse is recommended the day before ovulation or directly on the day of ovulation. Then the nimble sperm with Y chromosomes will be the first to reach the egg.

This method is effective in approximately 80% of cases, provided that menstruation is regular and the day of ovulation is constant.

7. According to sexual activity

This method is slightly similar to the previous one. As is already known, sperm with a Y chromosome (boys) are the first to reach the egg. In addition, they outnumber “female” sperm.

Therefore, with frequent sex, boys have more chances. And with rare sex (about once a week), girls have a better chance, since the lifespan of sperm with X chromosomes is longer.
The accuracy of this method is believed to be about 70%.

8. Planning according to mother's age

To plan the sex of the child, you need to cross the mother’s age with the month of conception using Table 1. For example, if a 23-year-old woman gets pregnant in July, she will give birth to a girl. After counting several of my friends, I came to the conclusion that this method can be considered correct.

9. Planning the sex of the child according to the months of birth of the father and mother

Using Table 2, we find the intersection figure of the month of birth of a man and a woman.

Next, according to Table 3, we look at the month in which it is most likely to conceive a boy or a girl. To do this, we go down from the numbers from Table 2. The more crosses, the greater the opportunity to conceive a child of a certain gender.

Example. The man was born in June, the woman in October. The intersection number is 6. It turns out that it is most likely to conceive a boy in February or October, and a girl in August.

10. Planning the gender of the child by renewing the blood of the parents

In the human body, blood is regularly renewed. For women - for 3 years, for men - for 4. Usually, whose blood is younger, a child of that gender is born.

To do this, a woman’s age is divided by 3, and a man’s by 4. The child will be the gender that has the larger remainder. Moreover, if there were large blood losses (transfusion, childbirth, abortion, donation of donor blood), then we count from this date, and not from the date of birth.

Let me give you an example. The woman is 23 years old (23 divided by 3, it turns out 7.6), the man is 29 (29 divided by 4, it turns out 7.25). At the time of conception, the woman's blood is younger, which means it will be a girl.

However, if a woman has a negative Rh factor in her blood, then, on the contrary, whoever has the smaller balance will be born.

The birth of a child in the family is an important event for every married couple. Therefore, more and more families are planning a pregnancy: they undergo a medical examination, take vitamin complexes, and also plan the gender of the child, especially if the planned pregnancy is not the first and the couple especially wants to have a child of a certain gender. As medicine and the results of many married couples have proven, there are certain ways to plan for a child of a certain gender.Several basic methods of planning the gender of a child are now popular; let’s look at each of the available options and find out how you can plan the gender of a child in advance.

Method for calculating ovulation in planning the sex of a child

Scientists have proven that sperm that carry male gametes are more mobile and faster. However, they live in the woman’s genitals for a short time, on average 2-3 days. Those cells that have female chromosomes can move much slower. However, their survival in such an environment is up to one week. Accordingly, if you want to give birth to a boy, then you should have sexual intercourse as close as possible to the day of ovulation or on the day of ovulation. Conceiving a girl involves intimacy about a week before the expected date of release of the egg. To plan using this method, it is necessary.

Using an ancient Chinese table to plan the sex of a child

In order to plan the gender of the unborn child in this way, you need the age of the expectant mother and the month in which the pregnancy is planned. Next, use the table to determine the months in which you should conceive a child of the desired gender. This is when you need to have unprotected sex.

However, some doctors are distrustful of this technique.

This is due to the fact that the gender of the unborn child depends solely on the man. However, this method has mostly positive reviews. Couples note that, thanks to the calculation, they were able to give birth to the desired son or daughter.

Planning the gender of a child using the Japanese method

In order to plan the gender of your unborn child, you can also use the Japanese method, which is also presented in a table consisting of two parts. One of them presents data on the month of birth of the future father and future mother. To calculate, you need to find cells with birth months and draw straight lines from them. At the intersection of values ​​you can see a number.

The found number is decisive and calculated for the second table.
Find the resulting number in the upper range. Then go down and determine which months are more likely to conceive a boy or a girl. The probability of having a child of the desired gender is indicated by ***** Now find the resulting number in the following table, and look at the month in which the probability of having a child of the desired gender is greatest.

The more *****, the higher the chance of conceiving a girl or boy, respectively. Based on this, plan for a child in a certain month. However, this method is not 100% reliable.

How to plan the sex of a child by updating the blood type

There is also a way to plan the sex of a child based on the blood type of the future parents. Thus, using this method, it is known that male blood undergoes renewal every four years. Whereas in women, blood renewal occurs once every three years. European doctors claim that whose blood is “fresher” than a man or a woman, a child will be born of that gender. In order to plan a specific gender, it is necessary to divide the age of the future father by the number 4, the same must be done with the age of the future mother, however, the age must be divided by 3. Having received the result, it is necessary to compare the numbers. Whoever has a smaller remainder after division will be considered fresher blood. Accordingly, the baby will be born male or female. Let's give an example, so the future dad is 30 years old, the future mother is 28 years old, let's do the calculation:
Man - 30 ÷ 4 = 7.5
Woman - 28 ÷ 3 = 9.3
In the specific example given, the couple is expected to give birth to a boy. With this calculation method, it is necessary to take into account facts such as: blood transfusion, donation, major operations or childbirth.

However, any blood loss leads to the fact that the process of blood renewal is shifted and the results may not be reliable.

There is another example of planning a child of a certain gender according to a group of parents and their Rh factor.The essence of this method is that a certain combination of blood groups affects the gender of the unborn child. Depending on the combinations of the parents' blood groups, there is a certain probability of having a girl or a boy. There are different combinations of blood groups, so if the mother has the first blood group, and the father has the first or third, there is a high probability of giving birth to a female child. In the other two cases, there is a greater chance of having a boy. If the expectant mother has a second blood group, then she needs to find a partner with the same or fourth group in order to give birth to a girl. Women with the third blood group can give birth to a girl if the child's father has the first blood group, etc.
The same can be said about an expectant mother with a fourth blood type, who can become the mother of a girl - if the child’s father has a second blood type.
The Rh factors of future parents should also be taken into account, which can also affect the likelihood of planning a child of a certain gender. So, if both parents are Rh positive or negative, the child will most likely be born female. If the Rh factors are not the same, you should wait for the birth of a boy.

It is worth considering that most reviews from young parents indicate the unreliability of the described method, although they are justified from a scientific point of view, there is always a high probability of obtaining a completely different result.

In addition, it can be noted that, regardless of blood type, many families have children of different sexes; this is also due to other factors that also affect the gender of the child, for example, the day the child was conceived, how close it is to the day of ovulation.

Thus, this method not only allows you to plan the gender of the child, but also to find out what gender your child will most likely be born.

Following the French Diet

Scientists from France have found that the nutrition of future parents plays a big role in the process of planning and giving birth to a child of a certain gender. Experiments conducted by scientists have confirmed that in approximately 80% of cases, following a diet can help parents conceive a child of the desired gender. During the experiments, two special diets were developed that contain a special set of products necessary for conceiving a child of a certain gender.

So, in order for the family to have girl , The expectant mother must follow a milk diet, i.e. consume large quantities of cheese, kefir and sour cream, i.e. consume foods high in calcium and magnesium ions. Instead of meat dishes, it is better to give preference to vegetables, such as cucumbers, tomatoes, green salad, peppers, eggplants and cabbage.

Detailed nutrition planning girls, as follows:

1. Milk and dairy products: milk, kefir, fresh sour cream, yogurt, cottage cheese, curd mass, glazed cheese, cream cheese, unsalted cheese.
2. Meat products: boiled meat with minimal salt content: beef, veal, pork, chicken.
3. Fish and seafood: river and sea boiled fish, shrimp, crabs.
4. Eggs: all dishes based on eggs (yolks).
5. Cereals: rice, millet, semolina.
6. Bread and flour products: any types of bread, crackers, pasta, all types of baked goods without salt and yeast.
7. Vegetables: eggplants, cucumbers, lettuce, garlic, beans, sweet peppers, onions, peas, asparagus, radishes, carrots, champignons, lettuce, green onions, boiled tomatoes, fresh and canned vegetables.
8. Fruits and berries: apples, pears, grapes, raspberries, strawberries, citrus juice, grapefruits, lemons, mangoes, quinces.
9. Drinks: very weak coffee or cocoa, tea, chocolate, calcium mineral waters.
10. Dried fruits and nuts: almonds, walnuts, hazelnuts, unsalted peanuts, raisins.
11. Miscellaneous: honey, jam, jelly, sugar, spices, herbs, aromatic herbs, gelatin, mustard, porcini mushrooms, butter or margarine without salt.

A couple who wants to conceive a girl should not abuse strong coffee, tea, carbonated drinks, beer, or canned fruit juices. Limit your consumption of salted dried fruits, smoked, dried or salted fish, and canned fish in marinade. The consumption of dark and milk chocolate, salt, garlic, gherkins, olives, brine, marinades, chips, yeast, soda, ketchup, spicy sauces and any canned food is also best limited or completely eliminated during planning.

In order for a couple to plan the birth of a boy, Several months before trying to conceive, you need to eat food with large amounts of potassium and sodium ions, and as little calcium and magnesium ions as possible, which are found in potatoes, mushrooms and lean meat. Bananas, oranges, apricots and cherries are perfect fruits, since they contain the necessary elements in sufficient quantities.

Detailed nutrition for planning a boy is as follows:

In addition, it is worth limiting the consumption of dairy products, dried fruits and nuts, fresh vegetables and herbs, seafood, egg yolks, rice, millet, flour and confectionery products.

It is worth saying that modern doctors tend not to recognize the French diet, as they claim that a certain diet does not in any way affect the release of certain chromosomes in male sperm. However, French scientists explain the influence of nutrition on the gender of the child by the fact that the microelements included in the diet affect the biochemical structure of the egg, which facilitates the penetration of sperm from an XX- or XY-pair into it. In addition, as a result of following a diet, the hormonal balance that affects the reproductive cells does not change significantly.

One way or another, temporarily following the “French diet” will not harm either the expectant mother or the unborn child, since after pregnancy, the expectant mother can eat whatever she wants.

Prayer to conceive a boy

Believers in the old days, having no idea about modern methods of planning the sex of a child, often prayed to the Saints in order to become pregnant with a son or daughter. Knowing about effective ways to plan the sex of a child, prayer can be not superfluous, but on the contrary, very necessary for conceiving a healthy child. So, in order to become pregnant with a boy, you need to pray to St. Alexander of Svirsky.

« Oh, sacred earthly angel, God-bearing and reverend Father Alexander, humble saint of the Most Holy, many who live in Your mercy turn to You with faith and love. Ask for us, God's servants (names of spouses), for a long-awaited miracle, a new life for Your sex. Contribute with your intercession, God's saint, ruler of our world. May the holy church of God rest in peace. Be a merciful miracle worker for us, a helper in all circumstances and sorrows. Do not be ashamed of our prayer, do not despise our humble prayers, but before the Throne of the Life-Giving Trinity, intercede for us, so that we may be honored in the villages with Royal greatness, and the grace and forgiveness of God will come. Amen".

Prayer to conceive a girl

To conceive a girl, you need to pray to the Holy Great Martyr Paraskeva Pyatnitsa.

Paraskeva’s prayer for the birth of a girl does not include the request for a child itself; it should be added at the end, formulated in your own words. The test of prayer is:

“Oh, holy and blessed martyr of Christ Paraskeva, maiden beauty, praise of the martyrs, purity of image, magnanimous mirrors, wonder of the wise, guardian of the Christian faith, idolatry flattery to the accuser, champion of the Divine Gospel, zealot of the Lord’s commandments, worthy to come to the haven of eternal rest and in the devil Your bridegroom, Christ God, brightly rejoicing, adorned with the supreme crown of virginity and martyrdom! We pray to you, holy martyr, to be sorrowful for us to Christ God, whose most blessed sight will always rejoice. Pray to the All-Merciful One, Who opened the eyes of the blind with His word, that He may deliver us from the illness of our hair, both physical and mental; with your holy prayers, kindle the dark darkness that has come from our sins, ask the Father of Light for the light of grace for our souls and bodies; Enlighten us, darkened by sins, with the light of God’s grace, so that for the sake of your holy prayers sweet vision will be given to the dishonest. Oh, great servant of God!

O most courageous maiden! Oh, strong martyr Saint Paraskeva! With your holy prayers, be a helper to us sinners, intercede and pray for the damned and extremely negligent sinners, hasten to help us, for we are extremely weak. Pray to the Lord, pure maiden, pray to the Merciful, holy martyr, pray to your Bridegroom, immaculate bride of Christ, so that by your prayers, having escaped the darkness of sin, in the light of the true faith and divine deeds we will enter into the eternal light of the never-evening day, into the city of everlasting joy, in now you shine brightly with glory and endless joy, glorifying and singing with all the heavenly powers the Trisagion of the One Divinity, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen."

In Vitro Fertilization

The main recognized medical method of planning the sex of an unborn child even before the moment of conception is in vitro fertilization. Currently, this is the most effective, albeit expensive (for example, one in vitro fertilization procedure will cost from 100 to 300 thousand rubles) method of calculating the gender of the unborn child. Most often, it is used by couples who cannot conceive a child on their own, and also if there is a high probability of having a child with pathology and developmental disabilities. During in vitro fertilization, doctors remove several eggs, and the man supplies his genetic material (sperm). Fertilization occurs in a special favorable environment, after which doctors grow the resulting cells for several days and determine their sexual predisposition. Next, specialists select only boys or exclusively girls and perform a transplant. The embryos are placed in the woman's uterus, after which she is ready to carry and give birth to one or two babies. Often such manipulation requires the use of many medications, and this also requires certain equipment and professional laboratory assistants.

Slavic calculation method for conceiving a child with a certain gender

According to the method, if a couple wants the birth of a girl, then she needs to wait for an even number of years and conceive a child only on even days of the month. In addition, you can plan the gender in another way, so you need to add the number of the month of conception to the mother’s age, if the result is an even number, a girl will be born, if an odd number, a boy. Also, to conceive a child of each gender according to the Slavic calendar, they alternate: 11th day boy, 12th girl, 13th girl, 14th boy, 15th girl, 16th boy, 17th girl. From 18 to 21 days, abstinence from intimacy is advised so that the offspring is born healthy. After 21 days of the cycle, the time for safe love comes. Another method of planning a child is the age of the mother. If the age is odd, for example, 27 years, then it is best to plan for a boy in even months: February, April, June, August, October, December. If the mother’s age is even, then on the contrary, it is most likely to conceive a boy in January, March, May, July, September, November, that is, in odd numbers.
It is also important at what time of day the baby planning should take place, so Wednesday, Friday and Saturday are considered favorable for the birth of a girl. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday guarantee the conception of a boy. As for Sunday, on this day fate decides independently; it will not be possible to guess what gender the child will be.

Gender planning using the lunar or zodiac method

Astrologers and some scientists note that the effectiveness of this method is at the level of 80%. The essence of this method is that the moon passes through the required female sign every 2.5 days, accordingly, you can use it to choose the most optimal days for the birth of a girl. First, find out what zodiac sign the moon is in at the moment you are going to conceive a baby. When a star passes through the signs of water and earth, then there is a high probability of the birth of a girl. These signs include Pisces, Capricorn, Scorpio, Virgo, Cancer and Taurus. If the moon is in the zone of fire and air signs, there is a high probability of conceiving a boy. These meanings include Gemini, Aquarius, Leo and Libra, as well as Aries and Sagittarius.

So, folk signs: in order to conceive a child with a female gender, it is recommended to put a comb, a mirror, threads, and a spinning wheel under the pillow. These items should be in bed not only at the time of conception, but throughout the entire menstrual cycle. To conceive a boy, you can put your husband's pants and hat, nails or any other male instrument. Now, all this seems a little strange, but in the old days such methods were trusted and resorted to.

There are other, less reliable and often unreliable ways to plan a child, such as visiting healers and fortune tellers who promise to determine the sex of the unborn baby and help give birth to the desired son or daughter. However, there is no guarantee that everything will go as you planned and your expectations may not be met.

In this article we talked about how to come to terms with the fact that you are expecting a child of the unwanted sex.

Thus, each of the listed methods of planning the sex of a child can be used by future parents either individually or all at the same time. In this case, the likelihood of having the desired boy or girl will increase. Despite positive reviews, many methods are simply ineffective, so you should be prepared for any outcome and not be upset if what you planned did not work out.

Myth No. 1: Some women “know how” to give birth only to girls, and some to boys

This also includes the common myth that if the man in a couple loves more, a boy appears, and if a woman, a girl appears. Let's look at physiology. There are 23 pairs of chromosomes in each cell of the human body. The 22 pairs of chromosomes are very similar. Only the pair responsible for the gender is different. In women, the two sex chromosomes are identical (each looks like the letter X, hence the name). And in men, one of the sex chromosomes has “lost” one tail and is not at all similar to the other, resembling the letter Y.

In order for a new little person, a boy or a girl, to be born, two cells must meet: a male cell - a sperm cell and a female cell - an egg cell. When they merge, a fertilized egg is formed - a zygote. Each of these cells contains half the genetic makeup. Moreover, all eggs contain an X chromosome (women simply have no others), and sperm are of two types: with an X chromosome and with a Y chromosome. If the egg is fertilized by an X sperm, a girl will be born, if Y, a boy will be born.

Thus, the main responsibility for shaping the sex of a child lies with the man, not the woman. However, everyone can remember a family where, from generation to generation, only boys or only girls are born. Why does this happen? Apparently, there is some kind of genetic predisposition to having children of the same sex. Or perhaps it’s all about the characteristics of sperm that affect the activity of sperm of group X or Y.

Myth No. 2: Boys are born in the very middle of the menstrual cycle, and girls are born at other times.

Every month in a woman’s body, under the influence of pituitary hormones, a tiny follicle vesicle matures in the ovary, which bursts in the middle of the menstrual cycle, releasing the egg. This process is called ovulation. Having left the ovary, the egg is “captured” by the fallopian tube and, thanks to its contractions, moves towards the uterus. The egg retains its ability to fertilize for an average of 24 hours. During sexual intercourse, 3-5 milliliters of sperm enters a woman’s vagina, which contains 300-500 million sperm. Only part of them enters through the vagina, through the cervical canal and the uterine cavity into the fallopian tube. They make this journey in 2-2.5 hours, and retain their fertilizing ability in the fallopian tube from 2 to 7 days, according to various sources. Spermatozoa carrying the male Y chromosome are lighter and more mobile than those carrying the female X chromosome. However, their viability is lower and they die faster.

Therefore, the myth is partly true. On the day of ovulation, male sperm are the first to reach the egg, but if sexual intercourse took place 2-7 days before ovulation, then the surviving female sperm are more likely to conceive.

To calculate gender using this method, it is necessary to accurately determine the date of ovulation. The simplest home method is to use special test strips to determine the level of luteinizing hormone, the level of which increases sharply before ovulation. The test allows you to record this rise, which will be evidence of the onset of ovulation in the next 48 hours after receiving this result.

There are also devices on sale for determining ovulation using saliva. They are designed for reusable use, but are also more expensive. When saliva dries on glass before ovulation, it crystallizes, and under a microscope you can see bizarre patterns - the “fern symptom”. This pattern appears due to a sharp increase in the amount of the hormone estrogen. This test is also recommended to be performed in the morning, without eating anything beforehand, and it is also not recommended to drink alcohol, smoke or brush your teeth. Inflammatory diseases of the oral cavity can distort the result.

The method of measuring basal temperature is to construct a temperature curve. To do this, you need to measure the temperature in the rectum every morning, without getting out of bed, and mark it in a table or draw a graph. On the day of ovulation, the temperature line suddenly drops sharply, and then jumps by more than 0.7 degrees and remains at a high level throughout the entire second phase of the cycle.

In addition, the day of ovulation can be tracked by ultrasound, which, of course, is used in the treatment of infertility, but not for the purpose of planning the gender of the child.

Myth No. 3: If you follow a high-protein diet (meat, fish, smoked meats), future parents are more likely to have boys; if you follow a carbohydrate diet (fruits, vegetables, sweets), girls are more likely to be born.

It is also believed that X chromosome carriers survive better in an environment rich in calcium and magnesium, and Y chromosome carriers in sodium and potassium. This theory is very controversial and even dangerous for future offspring.

It is common for any organism to maintain homeostasis - the constancy of its internal composition, including chemicals. To achieve a serious shift in homeostasis, a person will have to consciously achieve a deficiency of any substances, because the body itself will get rid of the excess. A serious deficiency will lead to dysfunction, in particular sexual function. Therefore, a strict mono-diet will most likely lead to a deterioration in the ability to conceive (fertility), but not to the appearance of a baby of a certain gender. Thus, the main guardians of the maturing egg are foods containing vitamin E: vegetable oils, eggs, grain bread, buckwheat and oatmeal, legumes, nuts. Sprouted wheat grains, including flakes and flour made from them, are richest in vitamin E. Spermatozoa, regardless of their gender, need animal and plant proteins, grains and vegetables.

It is also necessary to remember that a deficiency of certain substances can affect the health of the unborn child. For example, if you adhere to a “male” diet, you may develop a deficiency of folic acid, which is found in fresh greens (with the exception of parsley), cabbage, beets, carrots, potatoes with skin, bran, seeds and nuts. With a deficiency of folic acid, the likelihood of having children with disorders such as defects of the central nervous system and spine increases significantly.

If you stick to a “girlish” diet, you may experience a deficiency of B vitamins, and in regions far from the sea, even iodine. Without iodine, the thyroid gland cannot function normally; in women with reduced function of this gland, ovulation occurs very rarely; in addition, a lack of iodine can subsequently have a detrimental effect on the mental development of the child.

Myth No. 4: Conceiving a child of a certain gender depends on the time of year and day.

According to the superstition, boys are more likely to be born during autumn conception, and girls are more likely to be born if conceived in spring. The method is again based on the assumption that male sperm need more comfortable conditions, and with a spring vitamin deficiency, girls have a better chance. How effective this method is in gender planning is unknown, because there are no scientific works on this topic, but, undoubtedly, the nutrition of a woman who has decided to become a mother should be balanced.

According to another sign, closer to the full moon according to the lunar calendar, the time of boys comes, and closer to the new moon - girls. The menstrual cycle is the same length as the lunar cycle (28 days), but if the theory were correct, then all women would ovulate and menstruate at the same time. The Czech doctor Jonas went further and suggested that, along with the menstrual cycle, there is a second, individual cycle of greatest predisposition to conception, set already from birth and throughout the reproductive period of a woman’s life. This second cycle is focused on the phase of the Moon that preceded the birth of a given woman. Each return of the corresponding phase of the Moon means for a particular woman the period of greatest predisposition to conception (fertile period) and reproduction. According to Jonas, conceiving a girl is possible on days when the Moon occupies “female” zodiac signs (Taurus, Cancer, Virgo, Scorpio, Capricorn, Pisces), while conceiving a boy is possible in other (“male”) periods. Perhaps this theory makes sense, since the existence of biorhythms has long been confirmed by scientists. However, as with many other theories, it is confusing to completely ignore the male influence, despite the fact that we know that sex is determined by the sperm.

Myth No. 5: If a man often visits the bathhouse, then the likelihood of having a girl is greater

This method of sex planning, like diet, can be considered dangerous for future offspring. The quantity and quality of sperm produced in the testicles increases at a temperature that is slightly lower than the general body temperature, and when overheated, the ability of sperm to fertilize decreases, some of them die, and some change their anatomy. There is no evidence that only sperm with the Y chromosome die, but it is a fact that visiting a sauna reduces fertility. Those who use a sauna twice a week have a statistically higher risk of developing male infertility compared to those who use a sauna once a week. Any febrile conditions lead to a deterioration in the quality of sperm, and such a decrease in quality can be observed for up to three months - this is how long the maturation of each sperm in the testicle continues.

Myth No. 6: The child will inherit the gender of the parent whose blood is “younger”

According to this technique, every three years a woman’s blood and every four years a man’s blood is completely renewed. The calculation is simple: the age of future parents is divided, respectively, by three for women and by four for men. Whose remainder is greater, that blood is “fresher and stronger”, that gender will be obtained. And an amendment: if the mother is a carrier of a negative Rh factor, then the result will be exactly the opposite. Blood is also renewed during blood donation, childbirth, abortion, and surgery. The accuracy of this technique, according to various sources, ranges from 60 to 80 percent. The very concept of “renewal” of blood is very controversial. Blood consists of a liquid part (plasma) and formed blood elements. Blood plasma delivers and takes away various substances from organs and tissues, molecules of various substances constantly move into and out of the blood, there is no need to talk about any constancy of the plasma, it is completely renewed in a few days. The formed elements of blood also have a short lifespan: The lifespan of an erythrocyte is 120 days, leukocytes - from several hours to several months, platelets - 10-12 days. What is renewed in the blood once every three to four years and how this affects the germ cells remains a mystery. One thing is for sure - this planning technique is absolutely harmless.

Myth No. 7: The sex of the child can be planned using Chinese (Japanese) tables

There are tables that can be used to calculate the gender of the unborn baby based on the age of its parents. According to the ancient Chinese method, only the woman’s age and the month of conception of the child are taken into account. The Chinese forgot about dad, the sex chromosome donor.

Residents of the Land of the Rising Sun have their own method of planning the sex of a child. The month of birth of a man and a woman, as well as the month of conception of a child, is correlated here. Parents' age is not taken into account. It turns out that the same couple in a given month of the year can only have a child of one sex. There are plenty of examples and refutations. Many families have children of different sexes whose birthdays are nearby or even coincide on the calendar.

In Europe, two theories of age have also come into use. The first is based on the fact that if you are an even number of years, then if you conceive in an even month (February, April, etc.) you will get a girl, and in an odd month you will get a boy. And, accordingly, if you are an odd number of years, then if you conceive in an odd month you will get a girl, and in an even month you will get a boy.

The best refutation of all tabular planning methods is the fact of the existence of opposite-sex twins, the conception of which took place on the same dates.

Not myth number 1. The sex of the child can be planned!

However, modern medical science allows you to choose the sex of your unborn child. This can be done using an IVF program, when conception occurs in a test tube outside the woman’s body.
Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) is a special molecular testing of the chromosomal set of embryonic cells, carried out before the embryo is transferred into the uterine cavity. In addition to determining gender, this type of study allows us to identify about 150 hereditary diseases, which significantly reduces the likelihood of the birth of a sick child and increases the effectiveness of the IVF procedure. Currently, in Russia, PGD is used to determine sex only in cases where the couple is a carrier of severe hereditary diseases linked to sex (hemophilia, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, Shershevsky-Turner syndrome). The effectiveness of PGD for sex selection is 100%.
The Erickson method is a sperm sorting method that separates the faster sperm that produce boys from the slower sperm that produce girls. To do this, sperm is applied to a layer of sticky liquid located in a laboratory tube. Y sperm move faster and reach the bottom of the tube sooner. To conceive a boy, the lower fraction is taken, girls - the upper. This method is cheaper than high-tech methods, safe, but does not give a guaranteed result. This method is not used in our country.

Ethical aspects of sex selection

Many scientists around the world are sounding the alarm due to the fact that a number of countries allow medical participation in choosing the sex of a child without medical indications. Free choice of a child's sex can lead to a change in the natural sex ratio.
Thus, in India, where the sex of the child is determined in the early stages of pregnancy, millions of abortions of female fetuses are performed, which has already led to a shortage of female population. In our country, the issue of medical sex selection requires legislative regulation with the involvement of the public, doctors, biologists and geneticists in the discussion.
A child of any gender is a wonderful gift. And is it really so important what color the ribbon on this gift of fate will be?