I recently heard from a woman who was trying to conceive a boy baby.
She had heard that you should try to conceive close to ovulation to accomplish this.
But, she wanted to know how close you really needed to be.
Her husband often traveled for business and sometimes, they were not able to commit to one particular day.
She wanted to know how wide the window for this really was.
The answer to this question would hopefully help her determine if she should wait to conceive when she knew she was trying on the right day.
Yes, this might mean that she and her husband had to wait for a few months until he could definitely be home.
But, this delay was worth it to her to make sure her time frame was correct.
I will tell you what I told her in the following article.
How Wide Is The Window Of Conception To Get A Boy Baby?: This really does depend on the person and some other factors (which I'll go into more a little later.
) But, if you could handpick the best day to conceive a boy, it would be the day of ovulation.
The reason for this is pretty simple.
The sperm that give you boys do not live for very long.
Very shortly after they are released, they begin to weaken.
So, the sands of time are ticking down and the window of opportunity is closing pretty quickly.
That's not to say that you can't conceive a boy a few days before or after ovulation.
It does certainly happen.
It's just that your chances aren't as good under those circumstances and there are some pretty simple things that you can try to improve those same chances.
If you have the choice between being too early and being too late, it's better to be too late.
Why? Because if you are too early, you are making the chances better that the longer lived girl sperm will have success.
But, if you wait until too late, the chances are better that neither gender will survive for this long, and so you just won't become pregnant for that month, and can try again the next time (and hopefully improve your timing.
) Before I move on to the other variables that may affect this, I want to just briefly mention that it's highly important that you actually know when you have ovulated.
Many people assume that they know and so they don't even make any attempts to actually test and confirm this.
They'll just assume that if they are regularly menstruating, that they are also regularly ovulating somewhere in the middle.
This is such a risky practice in terms of gender selection.
Because if you are even wrong by just day or so, the whole outcome can also be off.
See, you may have been doing exactly the right thing, but on the exactly wrong day.
It's absolutely worth it to get an ovulation predictor that will tell you exactly when your optimal day is.
This might turn out to be what you thought, but it's not worth the risk of it not turning out that way, at least in my opinion.
How Being Alkaline Can Give You A Little Bit More Of Leeway With Your Conception Window When Trying To Conceive A Boy: The woman who wrote to me had no idea if she was acidic or alkaline.
This can make a slight difference in your timing.
The reason for this is that being alkaline already increases your odds for getting a male baby because this environment is neutral (rather than being detrimental, as an acidic environment is,) for these little guys.
So, since the environment is friendly, you're going to get the full life span of the sperm that produce boys (which is relatively short to begin with.
) If you are acidic though, this short life span becomes even shorter.
These already challenged little guys now have more to over come and this of course makes their job even more difficult.
That's not to say that you can ignore timing if you are alkaline.
It makes absolute sense to make every variable as close to optimal as you can.
But, being alkaline does mean a longer life span, so it's definitely worth it to get here if you can.
Also, sexual intercourse that allows deep deposits can help also.
This helps that short window also by giving these guys a head start.
Looking At This Specific Case: So, what is the bottom line for the woman who wrote to me? Well, she really wanted to give herself her best chance to get a son and she was pretty serious about this.
So, she did not mind waiting if she needed to.
I really felt that her best bet was to wait until she got the go ahead from the ovulation predictor of her choice.
If her husband was traveling when this happened, then she could try when he returned Or she could travel to him.
) The worst case scenario would have been that both male and female sperm had died off if they waited.
But, the boy sperm would have the best chance this way.
I did not want her to try before he left.
I felt that the best idea was to try later rather than earlier.
I also felt that she should consider trying to become more alkaline as soon as she could.
Depending on where she already was, this process can take some time.
Whether she used food or douching, it made sense to give herself the time to make sure that this part of the puzzle was already taken care of when the time was right.