Does Testing To Determine Your Ovulation Time Influence Whether You Have A Boy Or Girl Baby?

I often hear from folks who are trying to become pregnant with a certain gender and have head that it is very important to find out exactly when they are ovulating so that they can attempt to conceive at the optimal time for the gender that they are hoping for. Some of them wonder if taking the test is going to have an effect on this process.

I heard from someone who said: “I know that I need to take an ovulation test in order to find out when I am ovulating if I want to become pregnant this month. But does the test hurt anything? Does it delay or influence ovulation? Would it have any influence over the sex or gender of my baby?” I will try to address these concerns below.

What An Ovulation Test Does And Doesn’t Do: Essentially, an ovulation test either tests your urine or your saliva for hormones (like luteinizing hormone) that increase when you approach ovulation. You get a positive reading once this hormone is present to signal you that ovulation has taken place and that this is now an ideal time to become pregnant. The test itself is only testing your bodily fluids. But it doesn’t have any effect whatsoever on what is going on inside of your body. Sometimes, certain things can delay or affect your ovulation like stress, illness, or doing anything that might alter your hormones. This sort of testing doesn’t cause any of these factors, however. So it is perfectly safe.

The one thing that this sort of testing might do is allow you to get a very clear picture of when you have or have not ovulated. And this information can be extremely valuable when you are trying to get a certain gender. For example, for a boy baby, it is much more preferable to have conception sex after ovulation has occurred. But if you want a girl baby, then you want to have conception sex before ovulation and before you get a positive result on the test. Obviously then, having more information about your ovulation is vital to helping you carry out this sort of precise timing. Urine predictors are fine for pinpointing when ovulation has already happened. But I find the saliva predictors to be better when you want to know when it is approaching. In other words, the urine predictors are fine when you want a boy. For a girl, saliva predictors make it easy to see the window where ovulation is approaching, but hasn’t yet happened.

But to address the question posed, testing for ovulation doesn’t affect your cycle and it doesn’t do anything internally to influence whether you ultimately become pregnant with a boy or a girl. However, it will help you with your timing. And your timing is very important when you are attempting to conceive at a certain time to get a certain gender.

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