How to Make Sure You Have a Boy

The birth of a child is always special and inspires awe and re-establishes our faith in miracles. Be it a boy or a girl, the conception and birth of a child is always accompanied by expectations, apprehensions, amazement and the strongest emotional bond that ever existed in the history of Creation! However, if this is your second pregnancy and you have already had a girl before, you may want to plan for a brother for your little girl! Even if it is your first pregnancy, you may have your own preference for one gender over the other. As we all know, sons always remain momma's boys and daughters pride themselves at being daddy's little girls all their lives! Well, if it's a son you're keen on this time, you've just struck gold! Here's all about how to make sure you have a boy and what all you need to know to make your wish come true!

If you wish to biologically conceive a male child, knowing the following gender selection methods could be handy:

Eat Right: Your diet and nutritional intake plays an important part in determining the gender of your child. Studies have shown that eating healthy breakfasts and consuming 2000 calories everyday, when planning your child, can increase the chances of your conceiving a boy. Adding lots of potassium and sodium to your diet also helps you conceive a boy. For this, you should include strawberries, banana and other high sodium food in your regular as well as pregnancy diet. This is how to make sure you have a boy in a healthy and nutritious way!

Timing Matters: Keep an eye on your ovulation cycle to know the exact day that your ovulation starts. Once you establish the next exact date, avoid intercourse for three days prior to the ovulation date and then have intercourse as close to the beginning of ovulation as possible. The logic behind this is that the sperms containing the Y chromosomes in humans (Y chromosomes are responsible for imparting male gender to the fetus) are capable of outrunning the X chromosomes (X chromosomes are responsible for imparting female male gender to the fetus) in order to seek and fertilize the egg, but they die off faster than the X chromosomes. If intercourse is indulged in way before ovulation, chances are that the X chromosomes would survive till ovulation and would get a chance to fertilize the egg while the Y chromosomes die off. On the other hand, intercourse at the exact or closest possible time of ovulation gives an upper hand to the Y chromosomes to outstrip the X chromosomes and reach the eggs first! Therefore, in order to increase your chances of having a boy, you must have intercourse either twelve hours to ovulation or within twenty-four hours of it.

Medical and Surgical Alternatives: If you have In Vitro Fertilization done, then you may get the doctors to only plant male embryos in the uterus. This way, a son is guaranteed. However, such procedures are illegal in the United States and most other civilized nations. Sex selection is also possible through Artificial Insemination but the success rate of having your baby with a gender of your choice is lower than IVF. Prior to either of these procedures, Sperm Sorting and Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis are conducted to genetically test and separate the sperms containing the X chromosomes from the sperms containing Y chromosomes. Though these methods may take away some of the uncertainties of the two above mentioned methods, these procedures are complicated and costly and are usually resorted to in case of infertility or difficulty in conceiving naturally.

Apart from these methods, you may have heard of many old-wives'-fables about determining the gender of your child, viz. eating more red meat to have a boy and hogging on chocolates for a girl, trying for a child in warm climate to have a boy, making love under the moon to have a girl, etc. Well, can't say for sure if these work or not! Another way to introduce a male child to your family is via adoption. If you have already had, say, two daughters and are not ready for another round of pregnancy, childbirth, et al, you can adopt a baby boy and give a home, love and warmth to a homeless child! That was all about how to make sure you have a boy. Hope it helps. All the best for your endeavor; I'll be waiting for the good news!