One of the hottest topics today is gender selection pregnancy. Getting pregnant and knowing how to go about it is pretty straightforward, but choosing the sex of your baby can complicate matters. You have to know a little bit about biology to understand how to select the sex of your child and this is actually not difficult to understand. The sperm is the determining factor in terms of gender and there are both “x” and “y” sperm, while the egg only comes in the “x” variety. If they “y” sperm fertilizes the egg, you get a boy and if the “x” sperm fertilizes the egg you get a girl.

There are influences at play which are able to dictate what gender your child will be, and the basics of gender selection mean these influences have to be in place for certain methods to work. Some influences will favor a male child, while others influence a female child. These influences include vaginal Ph (acid or base), the sex position used, timing of ovulation and even diet in the month before the conception.

It has been shown that the ovulation cycle is a very valuable consideration in determining the likelihood in favor of one gender over the other. There is reliable evidence to show that fertilization during specific times when an egg is ready to be released will influence the baby’s sex.

There are tomes of information available on methods to influence the gender of the child you will give birth to. Using these methods take a little of the spontaneity of the relationship away, but if you find an easy to read manual that explains the methods in a simple way, it can actually be quite fun. A bit like choosing the paying lottery ticket! If you are trying to conceive and you haven’t had any luck, you should consult an OB/Gyn after 12 months. Some people get pregnant much faster and others take more time.

Gender selection pregnancy is something that couples think about when they want to have a balanced family. Not many couples want more than two children these days. They are expensive to bring up and if you want the best for them, striking a balance is not a bad thing, regardless of how clinical it may seem.

You are more than likely aware that gender selection is a hot button topic for many people. Because it is, old wives tales are being rehashed and scientific methods are constantly being developed. Listening to your grandmother as opposed to your OB/Gyn, will probably not get you very far in terms of gender selection, but you never know you might get lucky. Sleeping with a blue bootee under your pillow is a very sweet concept if you want to conceive a boy, but it is highly unlikely to influence the sperm that is busy swimming upstream.

There are invasive methods of gender selection available and these all involve IUI or IVF, but there are also some very predictable result achieved by making use of the MicroSort process, Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis or PGD, Preimplantation Genetic Haplotyping (PGH) using the Shettles Method or the Ericsson Method. Some of these methods are said to be absolutely 100% accurate, however there are some couples who don’t want to be so clinical about it.