Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site rduxb.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!rduxb!david1
From: david1@rduxb.UUCP (Rick Nelson)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Re: How do you get a boy?
Message-ID: <344@rduxb.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 1-Apr-85 08:00:13 EST
Article-I.D.: rduxb.344
Posted: Mon Apr  1 08:00:13 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 2-Apr-85 05:01:39 EST
References: <1660SGL@PSUVM>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Reading, PA
Lines: 37

> 
> 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
>                                                                 -or-
>                                                          liptak@gondor.uucp

There are books available on how you can supposedly increase the odds of
having a boy or girl.  It has to do with the woman's diet, making her body
more or less alkaline.  I don't know the details, but I was fortunate
enough for my wife to have had 2 boys.  A couple that I know that read the
book and tried it, wanted a boy first and had one.  They wanted a girl
second and had a boy.  I don't know if they continued to try to determine
the sex of the third, but they did finally have a girl.