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From: sgl@psuvm.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: How do you get a boy?
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Date: Wed, 27-Mar-85 18:22:00 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 27 18:22:00 1985
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Howdy net.parents,
   My wife and I are **FINALLY** ready (if there is such a thing) to have
our first child and would like the first one to be a boy. (so he can protect
his sisters and play catch with me and carry on the family name and all of
those other important reasons)  Now mind you it's not important enough to
consider any drastic measures like biogenetics or hormone pills, just given
a choice we both would like to buy blue baby clothes first.

My question is what methods have any of you more experienced baby makers tried
to determine the gender of the child and how successful did they appear (ie:
did they work for you?)  Some of the more popular suggestions I've heard are
variations in the love making position (missionary -> girl, doggy style -> boy
 :perhaps because of snips and snails and puppy dog tails?:), variations on
the time of the day of love making (night -> girl, morning -> boy), frequency
of love making (often -> girl, seldom -> boy), time of conception relative
to ovulation (same day as ovulation -> boy, all others -> girl).  I suppose
the list goes on.

I realize, of course, that there is no scientific merit in any of these methods
and the entire thing is biologically determined, but often times wive's tales
are not to be scoffed at entirely.  Anyway, I think it might be fun to see if
anyone has heard of these or others and what results they've experienced.

                                                          Steven G. Liptak

                                                          sgl@psuvm.bitnet
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                                                         liptak@gondor.uucp