Who understands biorhythms?

[atomic sagebrush]

So winter & spring you mean for boy? the month to conceive in (aussie seasons that is)

Just to clarify, this has NOTHING whatsoever to do with ions or the info on other swaying sites. This is based on some scientific studies that were done.

These studies found that the most boys were conceived in late summer/early fall for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere - Sept/October (which also makes sense with the Trivers Willard hypothesis - that we might have evolved to conceive more boys when they had the best odds of survival.) Boys need more nutrients from conception onward, so a baby conceived in the fall, right after the summer months when food was plentiful and a mother was best nourished, and then born in the early summer (June/July) when food would be plentiful for several months afterwards, that would be the best chance at survival for a boy.

Girls on the other hand, need less nutrients from conception onward, so if a person got pregnant at a time when food had been less plentiful (in the study, March/April were the peak in girl conceptions - after the winter when food would have been scarce for several months) and then due to deliver at a time (Dec. and Jan.) when nutrients would be scarce for many months afterwards, then a girl would have a better chance at survival than a boy would because they require less nutrients than boys do.

In the Southern Hemisphere, you would just reverse that. More boys would be conceived in March/April because that is your late summer/early autumn, and more girls conceived in Sept/Oct because that is your late winter/early spring.

The idea is that something in our bodies has evolved that picks up on hours of daylight or temperature or both, that sends a very subtle message to our body about the gender of child would have the best shot at survival. It's not the ion theory and in fact contradicts the ion/temp theory.

[LolaInLove]

So, atomic, random question related to this: if I live in the south where we have SUPER mild winters, do you think it matters as much? Meaning that my body has picked up on the fact that there are never any conditions that are extreme enought to make sustainance scarce? I just don't know how much I believe in all this biorythm stuff....it's not enough to convince me not to ttc in the girly months, but then again, I am old so don't have the luxury of waiting to ttc!

[3Pink1Blue]

Hi again, just curious say your bio compared to dh does not match for example:
DW - Boy
DH - Girl

or

DW - lean boy
DH - girl

Such as that... how does it work?? whose do you go by??

both dh and I were either full girl or lean girl when each of mine were conceived but my bff was lean boy and her dh was girl when they conceived and she's having a girl. Not really an answer I realize but thought I'd share

[LolaInLove]

What site are you guys using to plug in your info?

[3Pink1Blue]

AS- so, in theory, if we chow all those plentiful summer foods all winter long can we "trick" our bodies into thinking all is good and conceive those boys. Is that, again in theory, why dieting in fall/winter months is getting us girls, our bodies think there's a famine? I think I'm just looking for justification to chow down on all those foods I've been avoiding (too much calcium) for a few months

[3Pink1Blue]

What site are you guys using to plug in your info?

http://www.cycletourist.com/biochart/

[LolaInLove]

Apparently all moons and biorythms scream that we are in girl zone. Oh well!

[3Pink1Blue]

I think all the things help if they are all in agreement but one off factor isn't going to ruin anything. Depending on which sway factor you look at I should have at least 1 boy. I am really starting to believe it's so much more about your body then the weather. I've got pregnant within days of a friend and she had a boy and me a girl. Exact same external factors in play, our own bodies were the only varying factors. You've changed your diet and exercise habits I really think/hope that's the biggest factor.

[TTC5]

The bluie (physical) curve do you mean? I thought that had to be up top..?

[atomic sagebrush]

AS- so, in theory, if we chow all those plentiful summer foods all winter long can we "trick" our bodies into thinking all is good and conceive those boys. Is that, again in theory, why dieting in fall/winter months is getting us girls, our bodies think there's a famine? I think I'm just looking for justification to chow down on all those foods I've been avoiding (too much calcium) for a few months

I am 110% convinced that is the case - esp. Vit. D which would increase during the summer and decline during the winter. Here is the link to the essay I originally posted about this, it has links to the studies and stuff. http://genderdreaming.com/forum/show...easons+swaying Two of my four boys were conceived in March (for more info about this, I wrote it in detail in this thread http://genderdreaming.com/forum/show...e-got-our-boys! The interesting this is that my DS 2, by all rights, is the one who I think "should" have been a girl, but he was conceived in late summer.

Let me tell you, I ate TONS of calcium with all four of my guys. Not convinced about the calcium AT ALL. I'm not encouraging anyone to go off the diet because I think you can encorporate a lot of the "mineral balancing" into a boy sway and kind of hedge your bets, but until I see some blind side-by-side studies done in primates I'm not going to be sold on the idea. http://genderdreaming.com/forum/show...cium+conundrum