Optional sex of a baby.

[Abdulmajid]

Is there any truth in the theories about diet, time of conception, temperature etc about determining if you want a boy or girl? Or is it just balderdash?

[Mr Veritas]

Balderdash!
Your parents wanted a boy and look what they got(they are still not sure)?

[butterflies]

Male pilots have a tendancy of having girls; something to do with the pressure... to be proved

[China Doll]

Anasetists.... Anesitists.... Aneasi... The people that put you to sleep before operations apparently are prone to having girls. It's to do with the gases they use allegedly.

[Abdulmajid]

So if you are an anaesthatist in the RAF you will have a gaylord??

[China Doll]

Well only if the girl is a lesbian I guess. And that would make her a dame wouldn't it?

[kira000]

Ther eis now substantial research that suggest that women who always have breakfast, and hve large breakfasts, are much more likely to have boys than women who skip breakfast or have a very small breakfast.

i kid you not.

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=babies-sex -linked-to-mothers-breakfast-calories

[oldgrape]

i never eat breakfast and i had a boy my sister never eats breakfast and had 2 boys the earliest i eat is 3pm

[cazzz1975]

the male sperm decides the gender grape, its nothing to do with the mother

[kira000]

Cazzzzz is correct in that it is the chromosome in the sperm that will determine the sex of the baby, depending on whether the individual sperm that makes the egg is carrying X or Y.
Thats not to say that there cant be influence about which you get. The research indicating that what you eat can affect the success rate of whether the X or Y sperm is stronger and gets to the egg first. "Male" sperm are actually weaker than female, so, in theory the condidtions inside the mother might be able to influence it, for example if the ovum is thicker, the "male" sperm is less able to penetrate and the "female" will be first in. The food research suggests the glucose levels caused by eating more in the morning, my therefore have an effect.

[redcrx]

i never eat breakfast and ive got 1 boy and 1 girl.

My diet hadnt changed at al between pregnancies but what i ate from 3 months on was different each time. With my son i always wanted savoury, with my daughter i ate too much sugar.

[JonnyBoy12]

Women who have large breakfasts, kira? I thought you said women who have large breasts!