When trying to conceive, and especially when hoping for a particular gender, your ovulation is something you must become aware of, keep track of, and intimately familiarize with.
You probably don't need to be reminded what ovulation is, but let's define ovulation the same. Ovulation is nothing else than the release of a single mature egg from a follicle in your ovary. Ovulation usually happens regularly, once a month, and in a typical 28 days menstrual cycle, ovulation generally occurs around the day 14.
When are you most fertile? Your "fertile window", as it's called, is the time that occurs between 4-5 days before ovulation and 1-2 days after ovulation. The peak of your fertility is occurring 24 hours before ovulation, and 24 hours after the ovulation.
Woman's egg can live for 24-48 hours after it is released, and a man's sperm can live inside woman's body for 4-5 days.
Therefore, if you want to conceive, you should time the intercourse accordingly.
Ovulation calendars are tools that will allow you to do just that!
Firstly - I do believe you already know this - but let's say what an ovulation calendar is.
Ovulation calendar is a calendar that calculates the time when you will have an ovulation in order to keep track of your fertility cycle. Nowadays, an ovulation calendar can even be a program you run on your computer.
With the help of the ovulation calendar, you will not be guessing when you are most likely to get pregnant, you will know the exact date of your ovulation - and thus be in charge of your own fertility!
You may not know, however, that ovulation calendars can be used as a tool to calculate when you're most likely to conceive a boy baby, and when the baby girl is more probable.
To conceive a boy, time your intercourse the closest to ovulation as possible.
Y chromosome-carrying sperm that makes boys move faster than X chromosome-carrying sperm (girls) so it's more likely this type of sperm will arrive first to the egg ready to be fertilized. However, boy conceiving sperm is also more fragile than girl conceiving sperm, so they cannot wait for the egg to be released; they will die off leaving the more resilient X sperm time to finish the job if they arrive too early.
Knowing this, plan having intercourse a day before ovulation, on the day of ovulation, and a day after it to improve your chances for a boy!
Please note that not all dates that are your fertile days will result in conceiving a boy (for example), so you must have patience, and time the intercourse exactly on dates marked as favorable. If you have trouble conceiving in general, this method is not for you.
What you need for this to work is having the correct menstrual cycle information (length, time) and keeping it up to date. Incorrect or outdated data will result in an erroneous calculation. Arcane fertility terms like corpus luteum, progesterone levels, or LH surges are luckily not required to study to use the ovulation calendar properly.
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