Originally Posted by
prayforprincess
jennibel - I was just like you...did not want to dtd on o day. And yes, a lot of people I know say they had a cut off, but do they really know?? Probably not, they know the shettle's method and b/c they had a girl they presume it was a few days before. But most women do not precisely track their ovulation when trying to get pg -- unless they are us :) Even we, who live and breathe tracking o sometimes cannot exactly pinpoint it. So no offense but many ladies don't truly know the timing of their conception at all. Plus, I know a great many women who dtd right through o and got a girl. Infact my best gf has 3 girls and always dtd around when she "thought" she would be o-ing cause she just wanted to get pg. Anotehr women I met at a party had 5 girls and said she did the same thing -- dtd when she believed she was o'ing and had all girls. And for every women you meet that says she had a girl with a cut off, there is another that has a shettle's opposite, because it doesn't matter. Timing doesn't matter.
And like Zan said, it was other things that cause you to have a boy, not when you dtd. Like AS says (u should read her essay on timing), timing has been the most studied method of gender selection and in over 30 years, nothing has been proven --shettles has been disproven over and over. In all this time if there was something to it, then it would have been found out by now.
I am not trying to change your plan - you have to do what feels right to you. But with one attempt and such a far cut off after killing so many sperm through douches' abstaining, supp's etc. getting bfn's months in a row gets upsetting no matter how much you don't think you care how long it takes.
Sorry, I just know I was in your place a little while back and held in my head things that just were not true. And now I am focusing on what is really true and proven to get me my girl, like diet!! Maternal condition is your greatest sway factor and most likely what will ultimately determine whether you conceive a girl or boy.