Can you conceive a girl on ovulation day

And alas found out on Monday due to a quick ultrasound it's a girl : I was so sad and disappointed. We DTD on ovulation day simply because that's how it fell and I'm having a second girl. We DTD five days prior so it's also possible I conceived with the sperm from then. Wow I am glad you asked this question, at least I am not going to feel bad no matter how it turns out.

I have not checked but I am also praying for a boy. We DTD ovulation day and just found out we are having a little girl! I was shocked because I just figured it would be a boy due to timing. My cycles are incredibly weird days and we had a really hard time conceiving.

I was on clomid and using OPKs daily to determine exactly when I ovulate it was a moving target every month. We did the deed on the day I had my LH surge meaning I would ovulate within hours. My LMP is always wrong, so they had to do a dating ultrasound. My due date lines up perfectly with ovulation and I am having a little girl :. The reason they tell you it is more likely to be a boy the closer it is to ovulation is because little boy sperm swim a lot faster than girls and aren't as hardy as little girl sperm so they tend to die off faster.

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Your level of fertility is higher overall on these days. It is thought that the male sperm will reach the egg quicker, particularly once ovulation has occurred, when you only have a short space of time to fertilise the egg. Use our ovulation calculator to identify your fertile window and your ovulation day. Shettles also believed that certain positions can affect if you have a boy or girl.

At the point of male orgasm, when the sperm is released, he thought that deepness of penetration was key. His theory was that the closer to the cervix, the better. If you are hoping for a girl, try positions like missionary, that are not as deep. Shettles thought that the male sperm might die off before reaching the cervix and the egg, as the sperm would have further to travel. Your vagina is usually quite acidic, but becomes more alkaline when ovulating, which is more sperm-friendly.

My cousin has the same problem. Many years of trying and no luck. Even the day she ovulate. The male sperm does die faster, but if you want to have a girl, try as close to the beginning of your peak type mucus as possible not 2 0r 3 days before.

We decided to try 6 days before ovulation we were hoping for a girl. We have a very healthy 9 month old boy. Next time we will try at the very beginning of the peak type mucus to see if that makes a difference. I will tell you what I did I have an irregular period i guess you could say to me it was odd I would have my period start on the 7th one month and the next month it would start on the 9th and the month after that it would start on the 11th and so on so i knew when it was about to start and I counted 14 days from that day and I had intercourse the day before that day and the day after I only tried getting pregnant one time and that week I started feeling sick went to the doctor and found out I was pregnant before the home pregnancy kit would even detect the hormone I couldn't believe it now i have a beautiful little girl!

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