How to choose your baby gender?
By randomguy. Filed in Random |
Although most expected parents care most about having a healthy baby, many of them would like to know the gender by ultrasound during pregnancy. In fact, a recent survey shows that nearly 80% of expected parents admitted that they would prefer a baby boy or a baby girl, and would like to know information about how to conceive a boy or a girl. Especially for those couple who have have one child already, it is very common for them to have a gender preference to balance the family.
The natural rate to conceive a boy or a girl is about 50%. Aside from artificial insemination, which can cost up to $20,000, there is no way to guarantee that you can give birth to a preferred gender. But you can definitely increase the odd to conceive a boy or a girl.
In order to get pregnant, a woman must release an egg and a man must make sperms. The woman's egg will travel through a fallopian tube toward the uterus. A man's sperm must reach the egg and fertilize it along the way. Although a man can make millions of sperms, only one who reaches the egg first can fertilize the egg. This lucky sperm controls the gender of the baby.
A woman's egg contains 23 chromosomes, while the 23rd chromosome is always an X. A sperm contains 23 chromosomes too, while the 23rd chromosome can be either an X or a Y. Only one sperm can join the egg and the 23 single chromosomes from the egg and the 23 from the sperm form a complete set of 23 pairs, 46 in total. If a sperm with the 23rd chromosome being X (girl sperm, X-sperm) fertilized the egg, a baby girl is conceived. If a sperm with the 23rd chromosome being Y (boy sperm, Y-sperm) fertilized the egg, a baby boy is conceived.
Gender selection is possible because boy sperm and girl sperm are different. Boys sperm are smaller, move faster, with shorter lifetime than girl sperms. Boy sperms also favor an alkaline environment. By timing the intercourse, changing the woman's vaginal PH, and many other methods, you can increase the odd to conceive a baby boy or girl.
How to conceive a boy is a website that has more detailed explanations on how to choose your baby gender.