Diet for Conceiving a Girl Research
I’ve been asked on numerous occasions if there is a specific diet for conceiving a girl or boy that will help couples trying to conceive a baby of specific gender. The good news for people looking into this, is that recent research carried out by Oxford and Exeter Universities in the UK, found that what women eat prior to getting pregnant, did have an affect on the sex of their babies.
The main findings of this study included the following tips for following a diet for conceiving a baby girl:
- Breakfast no Tiffany – women who skipped breakfast were statistically more likely to give birth to a girl, whereas those women who ate breakfast regularly were more likely to have boys. The experts did not recommend skipping breakfast however, although they did suggest having a lighter start to the day by eating nuts and fruit.
- Less calories equals more girls – women who consumed fewer calories in the period leading up to conception stood a higher chance of becoming pregnant with a girl. The difference in the number of calories consumed was only around 130 (2,413 for a boy v’s 2,283 for a girl) but over 55% of those on the higher diet had boys.
- Skip the cereals – cereal intake seemed to increase the chances of having a male baby. Part of the study found that women who ate more than 1 bowl of cereal a day were less likely to conceive a girl than those who ate less than 1 bowl of cereal a week.
- Keep well balanced – the experts recommended ensuring you get enough magnesium and calcium in your diet to maximize your chances of conceiving a baby girl.
On the whole the research shows that diets for conceiving a girl do work if you are prepared to look carefully at what you eat for a period of time before you become pregnant. The suggested minimum period for following these tips was 2 or 3 months before conception.
If you don’t like the sound of this diet for conceiving a girl, and you are still looking for alternatives, you could do worse than to take a look at a website I have visited many times, run by a lady called Ashley Spencer. Ashley has been looking into how to conceive a girl for many years now and has developed a program that can claim almost a 95% success rate for conceiving a girl or a boy.
