First girl in 200 years

[Babybeaublue]

Was watching an interview with a young couple who had a son, which they were not surprised about, as there had been no girls born in the fathers family for 200 years. However they decided to try the shettles method. It worked! (well, something worked! lol) and they had a girl!
Of course everyone was texting in to say how it worked for them too, no one contacted the programme to say it didn't work for them.
Maybe I should have?! Lol
There was a Dr there however who soon put the facts across that shettles wasn't right re x y sperm theory.
I thought 20 years was bad for no boys in my family!

[mommymachine]

Wow! what a story!!!

[The Anchor]

What show was it? Would love to watch...

[Babybeaublue]

It was This Morning in the UK :)

[The Anchor]

It was This Morning in the UK :)

Googling!

[dkay1]

I heard about that but haven't watched it. Did they say about diet?

[dkay1]

I might try and watch it now.

[Frilly Lady]

It was in the national newspaper too. I think someone posted a link to the paper in the gender disappointment section.

[Babybeaublue]

No mention of diet..

[dkay1]

I've just watched it took me ages to find it. It was near the start of Wednesdays episode. They did mention that some studies show women that did not have breakfast had more girls. Also animals on poorer diets had more girls.

[dkay1]

I'm so hoping this diet works at a it killing me I'm so hungry!

[Babybeaublue]

Sorry I thought you meant did the couple change their diet. If only we could all just "time" things !!!

[covered in blue]

That would just be too easy wouldn't it! I have DS2 from one BD on CD6. We weren't going to TTC for a few months. We were just doing pull out and it was pilot error which we knew at the time and we got twins!! (though one was a first tri loss).
I've been told by several family and friends all about timing and how it works etc and it's so frustrating coz we all wish it was just that easy! One friend who swears by it and got her planned PP with girl first and then boy was an acrobat prior to conceiving her DD but not with her DS so I'm sure that swayed.

[bunnywabbit]

I wish I'd seen it. I thought no females in my DH's family for 60+ years was a lot!

[atomic sagebrush]

I'm so glad the doctor was there to point out that Shettles is not correct! That IS progress! The producers have tons of control in what callers get through and there may have been many people who did call and weren't let onto the air.

I have found that several of these families that "haven't had boy/girl in X number of years" are omitting several branches of their family tree or have all only had a teeny handful of kiddos! It's biologically very very unlikely that gender runs in families. http://genderdreaming.com/forum/gender-swaying-general-discussion/47852-we-only-dont-make-boys.html

[atomic sagebrush]

That would just be too easy wouldn't it! I have DS2 from one BD on CD6. We weren't going to TTC for a few months. We were just doing pull out and it was pilot error which we knew at the time and we got twins!! (though one was a first tri loss).
I've been told by several family and friends all about timing and how it works etc and it's so frustrating coz we all wish it was just that easy! One friend who swears by it and got her planned PP with girl first and then boy was an acrobat prior to conceiving her DD but not with her DS so I'm sure that swayed.

All these people have heard about Shettles and then so assume that they are doing it, but studies have shown that even experts cannot reliably pinpoint ovulation to the day even with a high level of skill at temping, charting, and monitoring the cervix and cervical mucus. Temping/charting alone was only correct 30% of the time, temp/chart and monitoring only accurate 60% of the time - and these were trained experts. There is no way that all these people out there claiming Shettles worked for them even know what day they ovulated on.

[True Blue]

We all know from experience you can chart religiously for a zillion cycles and then your one attempt cycle will be early or late :D

Knowing exactly when is impossible.
Predicting exactly when is even more impossible.

[Babybeaublue]

The presenter actually said - I'm sure there are lots of people it didn't work for who haven't bothered calling in lol

[WantALittleBlue]

I'm so glad the doctor was there to point out that Shettles is not correct! That IS progress! The producers have tons of control in what callers get through and there may have been many people who did call and weren't let onto the air.

I have found that several of these families that "haven't had boy/girl in X number of years" are omitting several branches of their family tree or have all only had a teeny handful of kiddos! It's biologically very very unlikely that gender runs in families. http://genderdreaming.com/forum/gender-swaying-general-discussion/47852-we-only-dont-make-boys.html

I agree with the fact that it is very unlikey families only make boys/girls. My sister in law says that evryone in her family in the past 30 years has only had boys but if you take a closer look most of them only have one child out of 23 first cousins only 3 had 2 children and they had 2 boys. I dont think you can call that only making boys when you only have one child.

[dkay1]

I know my husbands family say the same thing. They do all have small families. I'm hoping to bring a little pink into it.

[atomic sagebrush]

I agree with the fact that it is very unlikey families only make boys/girls. My sister in law says that evryone in her family in the past 30 years has only had boys but if you take a closer look most of them only have one child out of 23 first cousins only 3 had 2 children and they had 2 boys. I dont think you can call that only making boys when you only have one child.

I agree! I think that as well and if you look at Michelle Duggar, she has had long runs of B/g mix, then a long run of B, then a long run of G all of which are more than most of us even HAVE of children.