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Subject: Re: How do you get a boy?
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Date: Fri, 5-Apr-85 17:25:36 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr  5 17:25:36 1985
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Nf-From: cbneb!aud    Apr  5 16:59:00 1985

We had a girl and wanted our second (and last) to be a boy.

I purchased a book entitled "The Preconception Gender Diet"
(I don't recall the author and have already given the book
away to a co-worker with two young daughters ready to try for
number three).

The premise was that through diet alone, you could affect
the acidity level of the woman's vaginal area so that 
X-sperms or Y-sperms would predominate.  After reading
the book, I understood why I had a girl first (it was
more like my usual diet).  The author claimed she could
raise your odds from 50-50 to 80-20.

The girl diet was bland (NO sodium or potassium) while the
boy diet was spicey (lots of sodium and potassium but NO
magnesium or calcium).
I remember having to have bacon or sausage for breakfast
every day.  The book included 2 months worth of recipes and
diet plans.  You should start the diet a month before you begin
trying and continue it until pregnancy is confirmed.

I did not follow the diet religiously, but stuck to the
basic premises and did take a potassium supplement daily
(purchased from a health-food store).  I did have a healthy
9 lb 12 and 1/2 ounce boy 9 months later.

Good luck!!!!

				Audree Thurman
				AT&T Bell Labs
				Columbus, OH  43068

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