Aurora: How to Get a Baby Girl

Aurora,

I often write articles meant to help couples get the baby gender that they want through natural methods.  I honestly don’t see any reason to spend thousands of dollars for gender selection clinics when you can get fabulous results at home. In the following article, I’ll give you tips and tricks to help you get a girl baby.

Introducing The Very Strong (But Very Slow) X Sperm Chromosomes: It’s important to understand what really determines the gender that you will conceive.  When you have intercourse close to the time that you ovulate, the race is on.  The father-to-be’s sperm contains both X and Y chromosomes, but your baby’s gender is determined by which one will get to and merge with your egg first.  The X and the Y have separate strengths and weaknesses.

The sperm that will get you a son (Y) is the fastest of the two. If all things are equal, this would be a huge factor.  But luckily, these Y’s are also very weak.  They can not live for nearly as long as the X sperm can and any little thing will weaken them quickly.  On the other hand, the sperm that will get you a girl (X) are slow.  But don’t worry because they’re also very hardy.  They live for much longer and can shake off a hostile environment much more easily.

How To Time It Right To Get A Girl Baby: So, we’ve established that the boy sperm are weak.  Now, we have to use this to our advantage.  These guys can’t live for very long, so we time our conception early, to give them time to die off.  This is accomplished by conceiving three days before ovulation.  Now, this can be a bit tricky because unlike conceiving a boy, you’ll need to know when you are going to ovulate – not when you already have. 

So, you’ll need a very accurate ovulation predictor.  You likely won’t get good results if you guess or used old fashioned methods that require you to interpret data that could be just plan wrong.  I’m talking about trying to gauge your cervical mucus (which can change for various reasons) or charting your temperature (which can rise or fall for reasons not related to ovulation.)  I much prefer testing your saliva or your urine with ovulation predictors.  I like the saliva because you can reuse them and I’ve had good success with them.  

Conceiving Using The Positions That Favor Getting A Girl Baby: Remembering that the boy sperm will likely die off or weaken during a long trip, you’ll want to use sexual positions that get you shallow penetration. This will obviously make the trip longer.  Some good positions that will achieve this is the tradition missionary position, female on top using control, or spooning.  Any position will work as long as you are conscious of what you are trying to achieve, but the ones I mentioned are among the easiest to use to achieve this.

Acidity Is Your Friend: I know it sounds bad or mean every time I tell you to use variables to encourage the boy sperm to die off, but if you’re trying to conceive a daughter, this is exactly what you want.  Another way to do this is by creating a highly acidic vaginal environment that has a high PH reading.  Y sperm will wither quickly in a high PH.  So obviously, it makes sense to take full advantage of this.

The easiest way to start is to first test how high your PH already is.  You can get strips at the health food store that will test this (using your saliva.)  Then, you can begin to raise your reading in a couple of different ways.  First, you can douche.  Now, I know this may seem old fashioned or every unsavory.  But, I’m not talking about your mom’s old vinegar and water douching.  Modern technology has given us better options and you can now customize your douche recipe to correspond with your reading.

Another way to raise your PH is by going on a diet that is very high in acidic foods and will avoid alkaline foods altogether.  This sounds less than desirable, I know.  But you aren’t limiting how much you can eat, just what types of foods you can eat. There are list that can take the guess work out of this. And, you only have to do this until you get in the “girl zone.”  Plus, if you want faster results, you can combine the douching and the food methods which will often cut the time this process takes in half.

Source by Sandy Dean

How to Get a Baby Girl

Aurora: Pregnancy - What to Expect During Month 5

Aurora,

Can you believe that you are halfway through your pregnancy? During month five, which spans between 17 weeks and 20 weeks pregnant, you are looking very pregnant. Your uterus is now the size of a cantaloupe, and it is positioned just below your navel. There is no more denying your pregnancy. In fact, you may have gained at least eight to ten pounds. If you’re carrying twins or multiples, you will have gained more than this.

Mom’s Changes – Month 5 of Pregnancy

If you haven’t already, you will soon begin to feel your baby’s movements in utero. This is called “quickening,” and it usually occurs in the fifth month of pregnancy. Most women feel quickening between 16 weeks and 22 weeks of pregnancy. Your baby’s first movements may feel like butterflies in your stomach, or gas bubbles. First-time mothers may confuse gas with quickening, but the further along you are, the easier it will be to distinguish your baby’s flips and flops from indigestion and gas.

Now that you are in the fifth month of pregnancy, all traces of morning sickness should have disappeared. You will notice an increase in appetite. You may even have strong food cravings. Just remember to continue eating a healthy and balanced diet.

As your developing baby continues to grow in your womb, you may notice some abdominal discomfort and achiness. This is called “round ligament pain,” and it’s a common second trimester complaint. As your uterus expands, the round ligaments supporting it stretch and end up hitting nerve centers around the uterus, leading to the pain and discomfort you feel.

Other pregnancy symptoms you may experience in month five of pregnancy include water retention and swelling, constipation, dizziness, heartburn, leg cramps, and back aches.

Fetal Development – Pregnancy Month 5

During month five of pregnancy, fat begins to form underneath the skin. Your baby’s skin is still transparent, and blood vessels can be seen underneath. However, as more fat deposits underneath your baby’s skin, this will soon change.

The circulatory and urinary systems are working by the fifth month. Your baby’s eyebrows and eyelashes are growing. In addition, your baby can now yawn, stretch and make funny faces. Taste buds are starting to develop, and your baby can distinguish sweet and bitter tastes. Your developing baby is also spending much of his or her time hiccuping in the womb.

By the end of month five, your baby measures between 10 inches long from crown to rump. He or she weighs almost a pound! Your baby continues to pack on the pounds as your pregnancy week by week continues.

Source by DP Nguyen

Pregnancy - What to Expect During Month 5

Aurora: What Is An Ovarian Neoplasm?

Aurora,

Ovarian neoplasm, more commonly known as ovarian tumor, is an abnormal growth of the cells in the ovaries. The growth can either be classified as malignant or benign. Screening is very important once the condition is detected because failure to diagnose whether the growth is benign or malignant and delay of treatment can possibly lead to worsening of the condition, which can be fatal.

A benign ovarian tumor is not dangerous. This can be described mainly as the non-progressive kind of tumor that do not grow and spread out to the other body organs. One of the most common causes of benign cysts is when natural secretion outlets in the body get clogged up, resulting to an accumulation of tissues or liquids in the area. Most of the benign cysts eventually go away and will not require immediate surgical removal.

The malignant ovarian tumor on the other hand, is made up of cancerous cells and tissues. This is the condition known as ovarian cancer or the malignant ovarian neoplasm. Compared to the benign cyst growth, malignant cells grow in an uncontrolled and unpredictable pace. They are capable of metastasizing or invading other tissues and body organs, killing healthy cells along the way and eventually leading to the failure of the affected organ. Cancer cells can spread through the lymph nodes or through the blood, which gives them the opportunity to be distributed to the entire body.

There are many causes of malignant ovarian neoplasm and scientists have grouped them into two general classifications: the hereditary origins and the environmentally caused growth. Cancer is a well-known hereditary disease but occurrence of ovarian cancer as being passed on through the genes is rare. The more common causes of ovarian cancer are the environmental factors, such as smoking and exposure to secondary smoke, unhealthy eating habits, infections, exposure to radiation and even lack of exercise.

Early detection is a must because late detection can allow cancerous cells to proliferate and complicate neighboring tissues and organs in the body. But cancer is a very difficult disease to diagnose in its early stages, which is the very reason the majority of those who are diagnosed with cancer are always in the late stages of the disease – stages that are less curable.

Common diagnostic tests for ovarian neoplasm include pelvic examinations and ultrasounds, which can visually detect abnormal formations in the ovaries. There are also blood tests that can detect certain levels of a substance in the bloodstream indicative of malignant ovarian growth. One of the latest diagnostic tests is the Magnetic Resonance Imaging or the MRI and the CT scans, which can give doctors more detailed information about the growth.

One of the most common questions that women ask is malignant ovarian neoplasm curable? Given that genetically inherited cases of malignant ovarian growth only accounts for 5-10 percent of the cases, the answer is a yes. Eighty to ninety-five percent are caused by unhealthy living, all of which you can simply do away with.

Source by Amy Logan

What Is An Ovarian Neoplasm?

Aurora: Foods to Eat to Get a Baby Boy

Aurora,

A lot of attention has recently been given to the correlation between what a pregnant woman eats before conception and the gender of the baby she ends up having.  A recent study indicated that women who consume more daily calories (as much as about 2200) and consumed breakfast were more likely to conceive a boy.  Some women who want sons will read this and arbitrarily try to bump up their caloric intake and start making breakfast a priority.  While I applaud these efforts, you should know that in a sense this is flying blind, because the acidity of the foods are every bit as important as what you consume and when.  I’ll tell you why this is true in this article and will also offer examples of the foods you should be eating (and avoiding) if you’re wanting to conceive a boy.

Why The Foods You Eat Affect Your Chances Of Conceiving A Boy:  The theory behind all of this food business lies with your body’s acidity.  Your vaginal PH actually greatly affects the sperm that will produce a girl or a boy.  The Y or boy sperm are very weak and can not survive for very long in a high PH before they begin to weaken and die off.  So, if you want a son, you’ll need to lower this PH, which is also known as “alkalizing your body.”  You can do this through your diet or through douching.

A Diet High In Sodium And Potassium Are Said To Help When Wanting A Boy Baby:  Old wives tales will tell you that you should consume bananas to get a son.  There is some validity to this, but there are better options.  These myths are based on high sodium / potassium containing foods.  Bananas do contain a high amount of potassium, but they are relatively low in sodium.  Better choices are apricots, figs, raisins, nuts, All Bran, and baked potatoes with skins.

Likewise, it’s said that you should avoid foods high in magnesium and calcium (which favors a girl). Examples are cheese, yogurt, legumes, and leafy green vegetables.

Alkalizing Foods To Lower Your Vaginal Acidity And PH In Preparation For A Boy Conception:  Potassium and magnesium can only go so far.  You’ll also need to alkalize your vaginal tract.  One important part of this is going on a diet that is very high in alkaline foods.  Examples are almost all veggies with the exception of corn. Many people believe that orange juice is acidic (I used to). It’s actually quite alkalizing as is watermelon and spinach.

Highly Acidic Foods That You Want To Avoid If You’re Trying For A Son: What you add to your diet is very important, but you’ll also need to steer clear of foods with a high PH that can throw a wrench in all of your hard work. Examples are many fruits, most meats, and whole grains.  Most vegetables are alkaline, but corn is not, having a surprisingly high PH.

If You Want To Make This Process Quicker And Easier: If you have patience and lots of diligence, you can alkalize your body with foods alone.  However, if you faster or more dramatic results, you can accomplish this through combining your diet and douching.   There is an easy way that you can test this. Get a PH testing kit from many nutrition stores or on line. Test your PH before you start any of the diets or douches.  Then, after a few days of your restrictive diet, test again.  You’ll probably see moderate results. Then, douche with a solution meant to lower your PH (this is usually stronger than just baking soda) and test again.  You’ll likely see that the douching made a big difference.  But, douching is not mandatory if you have the patience to implement the diet and keep testing until you reach optimal levels.

A Few Other Considerations: Foods and douching are very important pieces in the gender selection puzzle.  But, there are a few more.  You will also need to conceive on the day of ovulation and use sexual positions that place the sperm very close to the egg (deep penetration.)  Both of these things ensure a shorter, less traumatic trip for the relatively weak boy sperm.

I know this seems like a lot to think about, but just look at it as a simple three step process consisting of timing, positioning, and obtaining the right PH.  There are douche recipes and food list that make this process a bit easier.  And, it helps to use a calendar to record ovulation, the foods you’re to eat, and your PH readings so you can literally see when the time is right.

Source by Sandy Dean

Foods to Eat to Get a Baby Boy

Aurora: Tips to Conceive - Effective Ways to Get Pregnant

Aurora,

Many couples unable to conceive children stay hopeful that one day they will be able to have a family with children of their own. Read this article to get some extremely helpful tips to conceive. Timing is the most important part.

What is Ovulation?

If you are looking for ways to get pregnant, it is very important that you know what ovulation is and when ovulation occurs. Ovulation is the day of your cycle that the ovary exposes the egg to be fertilized. During ovulation is when a woman is the most fertile. Depending on the regularity of you cycle, women ovulate at different times.

Know When You Ovulate

Women who have a regular 28 day cycle will notice that ovulation usually occurs on the 14th day of their cycle. Other women with shorter cycles may notice their ovulation day is the 11th, and women with longer cycles may ovulate on the 18th or 19th day.

If you have an unpredictable menstrual cycle, you may need to invest in an Ovulation Predictor Kit or obverse your body’s natural functions to determine exactly when you may ovulate. Being able to pinpoint ovulation gives you several effective ways to get pregnant. The ovulation predictor kits can be found at any drug store by home pregnancy tests.

Observe Your Body’s Natural Functions

Observing cervical mucus, recording and charting your basal body temperature, and using saliva tests are also ways to determine ovulation. Cervical mucus is usually thick, but changes consistency to thin and slippery during ovulation. Your basal body temperature is the temperature of your body when it is most relaxed. During ovulation, the temperature is known to drop.

These tips to conceive should really help you determine the best time to try and conceive. Remember, the absolute best time to have sex is 2 days before ovulation, the day before ovulation, and the day of ovulation about 3 times a day for the best results.

Source by Sandra Estergard

Tips to Conceive - Effective Ways to Get Pregnant

Aurora: Trying For a Girl Baby? This Advice and These Tips May Help

Aurora,

If you’re dreaming of a baby girl, planning for a pink nursery, or want to give your other children a sister, you probably already now that there are some things that you can do on your own to greatly increase your odds.  What you may not know is why and how these things work and which tools can help them to work better. I’ll go over these things in the following article.

Here’s Exactly What It Takes To Conceive A Girl Baby:  In order to get a daughter, here’s what ultimately needs to happen.  Your partner’s sperm has two different chromosomes X and Y.  Most times, these will be present in equal numbers (50 / 50).  If the Y sperm wins out, you’ll get a son. But, (and this is what you want) if the X sperm emerges as the victor, say hello to your little girl. 

Unfortunately, you can’t see this process taking place, but science tells us a lot about what happens once intercourse takes place with ovulation on the horizon.  The two chromosomes behave very differently and this can make a huge difference.  The boy sperm are quite fast. But, they are also pitifully weak.  The girl sperm are woefully slow, but they are wonderfully strong.  You can use this to your great advantage.  Everything that I will advise you to do below is based on the fact that the boy sperm is weak, so you’re goal should be to do whatever you can to make sure they die off before they’re able to use their speed.

Perfecting Your Timing To Get Your Daughter:  I’ve already established that the boy sperm will begin to die off quite quickly.  So, you will want to conceive early.  3 days BEFORE ovulation is optimal.  If you conceive before this, your plan may backfire because the girl sperm will also die off.  But, if you try any later, the boy sperm will hang in there and begin their race. 

Obviously for this plan to work, you’ll need to know precisely when this window is.  Here’s where many people make mistakes here.  They try to use less then optimal methods that require guess work.  Basal temperature and cervical mucus monitoring leaves a lot of room for error and you just don’t have this luxury.  Your mucus and temperate can change for a variety of reasons.  I would advise using a reliable ovulation predictor and the choices here are urine or saliva. Urine often requires first morning urine and you have to keep buying them.  Saliva predictors are reusable and you can test at any time, which is why I like them.

Intercourse Positions That Give You A Better Chance Of Getting A Girl:  Keeping with the theme of weeding out boy sperm, positions that give you shallow penetration are by far the best.  Why? Because this gives those weak little guys a long (and hopefully difficult) trip.  Examples of this are spooning and traditional missionary.  You don’t want to elevate your hips or raise your legs as both of these will deepen the penetration.  

Why Acidity Is So Important: Your vaginal PH is yet another deterrent to boy sperm, who can’t live for long in a hostile environment.  You can define a hostile environment as one with a high PH.  One of the tools that I alluded to before was saliva testers that will tell you exactly how high your PH is.  This is the best way to start.  Once you know where you are, you then have a choice between using diet, douching, or both of these combined.

With diet, you will consume acidic foods and totally avoid alkaline foods.  This isn’t as hard as it may sound.  It can also be relatively short term if you are very diligent.  There’s some confusion that this means limiting your caloric intake.  This is wrong.  You should not limit how much you are taking in, just what types of foods you are consuming.

The second method is douching to raise your PH. Many people make the mistake of going blindly into this. They try vinegar and water and hope for the best.  You can do so much better.  There are recipes based on your individual reading that is stronger than what you’d get in a store.  And, you should always continue to test as you douche so that you can immediately see how well your efforts are working or if you need to be more aggressive.

Finally, you can combine both of these methods.  This often yields the fastest results, but some people aren’t excited by the idea of having so much to think about it. However, if you’re really diligent and see through testing what is giving you the best results, you truly should have to do this for very long.

Final Thoughts: If I could give you only one piece of advice, it would be to think about all of these things and come up with a plan. So many people want a girl but they’ll only use one method. So, they might focus on their timing, but then go in with a dirt low PH.  You would increase your chances this way, but you could have so much better odds if you addressed all three variables. It’s said that combining timing, intercourse, and PH can yield up to a 90% or so success rate.  So it makes good sense to use every variable to ensure that you get these results.

Source by Sandy Dean

Trying For a Girl Baby? This Advice and These Tips May Help

Aurora: Can You Conceive a Boy If You Have Intercourse the Day Before Ovulation?

Aurora,

Over the weekend, I got an email from a woman who found my blog.  She was concerned because the information in it indicated that for a boy conception, you should have intercourse on the day of ovulation.  However, she thought that she’d had intercourse on the day before the actual day the egg was released instead (one day before the optimal time.)  So, she was concerned that she was too early and would have a girl instead.  She wanted to know if it was still possible to conceive a boy under these circumstances or if she had truly messed it up.  I’ll share with you what I told her in the following article.

What Affects The Window Of A Baby Boy Conception: There’s no question that the life span of a boy producing sperm is shorter than a girl producing one.  Girl sperm can live for several days while their boy counterparts typically only last for a few.  But, there are a few things that can affect this and either prolong this longevity or shorter it.  The first is how acidic your vagina is.  If boy sperm meets a high PH, it’s going to deteriorate and die off much more quickly.  But, if it’s greeted with a low PH or alkaline environment, it will live for longer (you’ll generally get another day.)

And, the intercourse positions that you use can also have an impact.  If you use positions that use deeper penetration, the boys will get to where they need to go faster so they’ll have more time to do their job.  But, if you use shallow penetration, you compromise this process.

Was My Reader Really Too Early?: So, back to the reader who emailed me.  She was able to tell me that she used deeper penetration which was a plus. But, there were a couple of things that I didn’t know.  I didn’t know her PH and I didn’t know if she was accurate about when she ovulated. She was basically only testing her basal temperature and I don’t find this method to be all that accurate. So, it’s entirely possible that she was a little bit “off” in her calculations and her actual ovulation could’ve occurred a bit later or a bit earlier.

Without knowing these variables, there is really no way to know for sure. However, if she was dead on with her calculations and her vagina’s PH was not to horribly high, then the boy sperm would’ve likely had a two day shelf life, leaving a decent amount left to fight for the egg.  So, although the odds weren’t as optimal as they could have been, they weren’t absolutely horrible or impossible.

If She Were To Get Another Chance:  We won’t know if my reader become pregnant for a few weeks, but if she isn’t pregnant and gets another shot at it, I’ve told her to begin testing her PH (with urine testing strips) so that she knows what she has to work with.  If she is acidic, I’ve instructed her to begin consuming alkaline foods and to begin douching with formulas to lower her PH.  I’ve also recommended a saliva predictor so that next time there will be no doubt when she is approaching or has ovulated.

This way, if it turns out that she isn’t pregnant, next time she can pick the optimal day and be at the optimal PH to ensure the right outcome.

Source by Sandy Dean

Can You Conceive a Boy If You Have Intercourse the Day Before Ovulation?