For some women getting pregnant seems to occur relatively easily while others spend a lot of time wondering how to get pregnant faster.   Women who have waited until later in life and then made a conscious decision to get pregnant often find themselves asking two simple questions:  How do I get pregnant and get pregnant faster? Ironically most women know more about how to not get pregnant than how to get pregnant.  It is more likely for a women to [...]

Developed by Landrum Shettles in the 1960s, The Shettles Method is a collection of techniques designed to help influence baby gender prior to conception. Known as a pioneer in fertility treatments, Dr. Shettles based his methods around the belief that the X-bearing and Y-bearing sperm characteristics differ and you can use these differences to learn how to conceive a boy. The baby making chromosome math is X + Y = boy or X + X = girl.  The egg from [...]

Developed by Dr. Landrum B. Shettles, The Shettles Method for conceiving a girl is a collection of techniques designed to help influence baby gender prior to conception. Dr. Shettles was known as a pioneer in fertility treatments and based his methods around the theory that the characteristics of X-bearing and Y-bearing sperm differ and can be used to influence the sex of your baby. Chromosome math: The egg from the mother is always X-bearing and the sperm from the father [...]

There’s an old saying amongst expectant mothers and fathers: “I don’t care whether it’s a boy or a girl as long as it’s healthy.”   While there is little doubt that all expectant parents hope for a healthy baby, recent studies suggest that this is not the only thing that matters. Some studies suggest that a vast majority of expectant parents specifically wish to either conceive a boy or conceive a girl. Of expectant couples who used an ultrasound to [...]