The following methods are the current theories regarding gender selection while trying to conceive.

The Shettles Method
The Shettles, by Dr. Landrum Shettles and David Rorvik, authors of How To Choose the Sex of Your Baby, is the method most used and most effective. According to this method Y-chromosomes (for boys) move faster but don't last as long as X-chromosomes (for girls), Dr Shettles says it makes sense to have sex as close as possible to ovulation if a boy is what you want. If you try to conceive two to four days before you ovulate, you'll most likely have a girl.

A helpful question to an anxious woman is to ask her how she knows when menstruation begins. She will readily admit that she both feels and sees the bleeding as it arrives at the vulva. The observations of sensation and appearance will then be applied to all other observations the woman makes at the vulva. As the days go by she will recognize her patterns of fertility and infertility, according to the mucus patterns.

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