Comments on: Who wants to know if the baby is a boy or a girl? http://blog.crankygeek.com/archives/2005/12/21/who-wants-to-know-if-the-baby-is-a-boy-or-a-girl/ a modern luddite in need of a nap Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:25:05 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Aunt Kris http://blog.crankygeek.com/archives/2005/12/21/who-wants-to-know-if-the-baby-is-a-boy-or-a-girl/comment-page-1/#comment-143 Aunt Kris Fri, 30 Dec 2005 23:01:24 +0000 http://blog.crankygeek.com/?p=53#comment-143 Keley is correct....as always! Keley is correct….as always!

]]> By: Mark http://blog.crankygeek.com/archives/2005/12/21/who-wants-to-know-if-the-baby-is-a-boy-or-a-girl/comment-page-1/#comment-141 Mark Sat, 24 Dec 2005 01:33:18 +0000 http://blog.crankygeek.com/?p=53#comment-141 This is retrospective and therefore useless now but, if you ever decide to have another child, you can tilt the odds of having a boy/girl by timing ovulation, usually by measuring temperature. It theoretically works like this. Boy-producing sperms have a Y chromosome; girl-producing sperms have an X. The Y is much smaller than the X, so Y-sperms are faster then X-sperms because they have less mass to carry. However, X-sperms live longer than Y-sperms. So, if you know when ovulation is about to occur and you want a boy child, then you have sex just after ovulation. The Y-sperms, being faster, have a greater chance of reaching the ovulated egg. If you want a girl child, you have sex before ovulation. The Y and X sperms all get up in the tube and wait around for the egg to arrive. Since the X-sperms outlive the Y-sperms, you increase the chance of having a girl baby. Does this really work (I hear you ask)? Nobody really knows because no one has good statistics. But, what the hell, it might be fun to mess with. Anyway, Merry Christmas!!! This is retrospective and therefore useless now but, if you ever decide to have another child, you can tilt the odds of having a boy/girl by timing ovulation, usually by measuring temperature.

It theoretically works like this. Boy-producing sperms have a Y chromosome; girl-producing sperms have an X. The Y is much smaller than the X, so Y-sperms are faster then X-sperms because they have less mass to carry. However, X-sperms live longer than Y-sperms. So, if you know when ovulation is about to occur and you want a boy child, then you have sex just after ovulation. The Y-sperms, being faster, have a greater chance of reaching the ovulated egg. If you want a girl child, you have sex before ovulation. The Y and X sperms all get up in the tube and wait around for the egg to arrive. Since the X-sperms outlive the Y-sperms, you increase the chance of having a girl baby.

Does this really work (I hear you ask)? Nobody really knows because no one has good statistics. But, what the hell, it might be fun to mess with.

Anyway, Merry Christmas!!!

]]> By: Burns http://blog.crankygeek.com/archives/2005/12/21/who-wants-to-know-if-the-baby-is-a-boy-or-a-girl/comment-page-1/#comment-140 Burns Wed, 21 Dec 2005 23:06:18 +0000 http://blog.crankygeek.com/?p=53#comment-140 It's a boy! I know it! It’s a boy! I know it!

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