Is it possible to Pick Your Baby’s Gender?

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Is it possible to Pick Your Baby’s Gender?

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009 Subscribe To Our Feed

Today there are many reasons why a couple may seek to influence the gender of their next child. Reasons range from trying to balance their family to just a simple preference for one gender. This of course is their personal preference and opinion and no one should question their motives or their desires, but that issue aside, can you really control or influence a baby’s gender before the mother gets pregnant?

For centuries there have been stories told of how to determine or control a baby’s gender and certainly many of these stories were not based in any scientific fact or understanding of the process of conception. It was a wide belief that women picked the gender of their baby because they are the ones that could carry life. It was believed that the baby was made the way she was according to something in the woman’s insides. The baby being female or male is now known to be determined by the chromosomes that the father contributes to the egg and not based on the mothers at all.

There’s really not much that the father can do to control or influence the baby’s gender. Rather the best method to do this is to think of the sperm that has the Y chromosome for the male moves faster but it is destroyed more rapidly in contrast to the X chromosome for females that moves slower but it survives longer. What this translates into is that the sperm which carry the Y chromosome for boys can move more quickly but have a shorter life expectancy than their counterparts which carry the X chromosomes for girls. The vaginal pH can either kill or preserve sperm; pH that is more alkaline will preserve sperm which can influence a baby’s gender. “Boy sperm” thrive in this environment and have a greater chance to reach the ovum to fertilize it. Vaginal pH that is more acidic will kill these more delicate sperm and give the “girl sperm” more of a chance to reach an egg to fertilize.

Of course no one can guarantee or control a baby’s gender no matter what they do. Even scientific methods used during in vitro fertilization is not completely dependable when it comes to a baby’s gender, so always be prepared for either a boy or a girl!

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