As the dream of a fourth child continues to thrive in my being, I have begun to take great joy in observing my cycle. Counting days to the right time, counting months to seasons and their possible parallel trimesters, counting perhaps a year to a due date . . . I didn’t do that with my others, not until I already had a positive test in my hand. I felt silly, like I was being presumptuous dreaming so far ahead. Now, I feel the necessity, the drive, to plan. I’m responsible for the daily care, feeding and education of too many people to not plan something so huge as the addition of another person to our household!
I pulled Taking Charge of Your Fertility by Toni Weschler, off the book shelf the other night and placed it in waiting for a few quiet moments. I was practically giddy as I looked forward to getting to pore through all that wonderfully relevant information. I feel I’m uncovering part of the mystery of God’s design for women and mothering when I read about hormones orchestrating microscopic events leading to potentially enormous ramifications in the generating of new people! When my time came I thoroughly enjoyed sharpening my understanding of my body and I recommend the book highly.
I believe it’s chapter 17 that’s devoted to gender selection. The author describes The Shettles Method. It’s all about the timing, if you get your timing right the method is said to be 75-90% effective (75-80% for choosing girls, and 80-90% for choosing boys). Sid and I are gonna try for a boy. But we are not setting our hopes on it, truth be told I hope for a girl just as much as I hope for a boy, we just feel like we should have a boy to balance things out a little. Names have begun to swim around in my mind, I’m treasuring nurturing this dream SO much!
As I prepare to try to conceive (aahhh!, did I really just type that!?) are there any books you would recommend?
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I also recommend this book. Jen let be borrow it when I was ready to get pregnant. My husband and I were trying when others told me I was ovulating and not when my body was. I am not a reader so it took until the seventh month and following the method exactly to get pregnant.
If the book says that if you get pregnant on THE DAY OF OVULATION you will probably have a boy….its right on. Take us for instance .