Does Shettle's Work for some couples?

[hopetoswaypink]

Do you think Shettles works for a girl if you only have EWCM on ovulation day or o-1 as you would have the thicker mucus when you had sex? If you have days of EWCM then you would still get a boy even with shettles timing for a girl?

[atomic sagebrush]

My mum swears she got 3 girls after two boys with shettles timing but I don't buy it. What I think swayed for her was:
Her and dad were older with us girls ( in their 30s as opposed to 21 -22 with the boys
She was always dieting from her 30s and drank so much diet Pepsi
She told me she had dad abstain and had one attempt at 0-4 with all three of us
Dad was working a lot away and very long hours with us girls and mum was very tired and stressed at home on her own a lot
My gma was living with us at the time and smoked so mum would sneak out for a sneaky one with her lol!
She also would have a wine at night while cooking but never drank with the boys
Congratulations on your newest little boy x

a LOT of people will tell you "oh I did Shettles" but the plain fact is, even using modern technology and a high level of training, people could only pin down the day they ovulated on, 1 out of 3 days. O Day can and DOES move around a day or so either way and all those people have no idea what day they really Oed on.

[atomic sagebrush]

Do you think Shettles works for a girl if you only have EWCM on ovulation day or o-1 as you would have the thicker mucus when you had sex? If you have days of EWCM then you would still get a boy even with shettles timing for a girl?

We've speculated about it, but that was before we realized the one attempt thing.

We have had quite a lot of CM opposites (myself included) so while I have not completely banished the idea from Plausible-Land I think it simply has got to be something more complex than that.

I really, really think Shettles doesn't work. It is by far and away the most widely studied aspect of gender swaying and if there was anything to it, it would be well and truly proven by now. Such a simple idea would be proven. But it isn't, and in fact, more evidence continually comes to light showing that it DOESN"T work. There was a study done just last year where researchers went through using modern knowledge and proved that all the studies that claimed to prove timing worked (done in the 60's thru 80's) did not work because most of the participants hadn't even pinned down their correct day of ovulation. When corrected, the data showed no relation to day of intercourse at all and those very long cutoffs 5-7 days that some timing people swore by actually were vanishingly small chances of conception.