Timing Question!

[Hobbermittens]

Okay, now I'm even more confused. So based on timing (3 days before O) I am not swaying either way, but because we were BDing every second day I am in blue territory?

Yes, that is exactly right.

[atomic sagebrush]

Hmmm...does this mean that if I O today or tomorrow and there was 3 days between O and our last attempt I would be in the boy zone? I didn't seem to have EWCM when we last BD.

Argh! I thought I had a decent sway this cycle!

I personally believe that frequency patterns sway very little in comparison to diet, BUT yes, that's what I'm saying - 3 days between rounds of BD = max numbers of fresh healthy sperm, and high numbers of fresh healthy sperm seem to = more boys.

I conceived my DD from BD every 4 days tho - it's not a make or break thing, YOUR diet is much, much more important.

[atomic sagebrush]

Zana, just to make this real clear for myself and other ladies wondering (although, Atomic explained to me a few hundred times already ..lol).......TIming near or far from ovulation does not sway boy or girl. it's the frequency of BD or abstain + all the extras like diet, stress, EWCM, that sways. right??? so shettles method is wrong. am I right?. 2-3 days = girl and ov= boy..is wrong.

Exactly. Timing does not sway and you can read why in mind-numbing detail here http://genderdreaming.com/forum/gend...le-timing.html.

Frequency of BD sways (and that's why some studies make it SEEM like timing sways - because pink swayers were abstaining with 1 attempt and blue swayers were DTD every 2-4 days). More about frequency is here http://genderdreaming.com/forum/gend...frequency.html and here http://genderdreaming.com/forum/gend...pink-blue.html

Frequency + number of attempts and when to do them here - http://genderdreaming.com/forum/gend...pink-blue.html

[atomic sagebrush]

Okay, now I'm even more confused. So based on timing (3 days before O) I am not swaying either way, but because we were BDing every second day I am in blue territory?

Yes, because it does not matter what day of your cycle you BD, about 50-50 boys and girls are conceived every day of the fertile window. Please see Fig. 4 in this study to illustrate.
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But when you BD every 2-4 days, you up your husband's sperm count and health and larger numbers of healthy sperm seem to sway blue for reasons we do not yet know. Here is a new essay just posted yesterday that may help you be able to envision this. http://genderdreaming.com/forum/gend...frequency.html

[atomic sagebrush]

For some reason that link does not always work, I think there's a working link in the "Trouble with Timing" essay or you can Google "Timing of Sexual Intercourse in Relation to Ovulation" and the study itself will come up. Figure 4 is what you want to look at, it has the number of boys and girls conceived every day of the fertile window and it is about 50-50 every day, with actually slightly more girls conceived on O-1 and O day, more boys conceived 2-4 days before O.