Do You Have Any Control Over When You Ovulate When You're Trying To Choose Your Baby's Gender?

I sometimes hear from women who very much want to have control over when they conceive. In order to be successful in this goal, they must also be successful in understanding and gauging their ovulation time. But for many, gauging is not enough. Many want to cherry pick what they think is the perfect day to conceive. So, depending on whether they want a boy or girl, they want to hand pick a day before or after that ideal day on which they will need to ovulate.

For example, let’s say that your anniversary is Sunday the 15th. You think that it would just be perfect to conceive your first child (a son) on the same day that you married that same child’s father-to-be. In order to successfully do that, you would need to ovulate a couple of days after the 15th (since conception after ovulation makes a boy more likely.) To conceive on the 15th, you’d want to ovulate on around the 16th or even later if a son was your goal.

Can You Plan Or Control Your Ovulation Day In Order To Choose Your Baby’s Gender?: What many people want to know is how can you plan it so that you would conceive on your planned day and then ovulate before or after that (depending on whether you wanted a boy or a girl.) The answer is you could if you were incredibly lucky or were already going to ovulate on that day. But, there’s very little that you can do if this isn’t part of your natural cycle. Women who are on birth control pills are thought to have the ability to stop or prolong their monthly pill cycle to influence the date of their period (which in turn would influence the day that they would ovulate.) But if you are trying to conceive, this pill trick would not apply to you. Birth control doesn’t make sense when you are trying to conceive.

Most women ovulate at some point after their menstrual period. Many ovulate mid way through their fertility cycle, (which occurs a couple of weeks after the menstrual period for many, but not for all. ) If you are very regular with your menstrual period, you can usually narrow down your ovulation possibilities to a few possible days. And then you can use an ovulation predictor to be absolutely sure. But, although you can use tools to help you pinpoint and determine your ovulation day, there is very little that you can do to change it if you don’t like where it naturally occurs. Sometimes, illness or medications can affect ovulation times, but this isn’t usually something that you can or should try to plan.

The Bottom Line: I know that this is probably not what you wanted to hear if you have that perfect conception day in mind. And, you might be one of the few who are lucky enough to ovulate exactly when you need to in order for this to correspond with your target day. However, if your ovulation day isn’t expected to happen when you want it to, you can still have sex for fun on your anniversary of whatever day you have planned. It’s just that your chances of actually conceiving on that day aren’t as good as you might have hoped, but that doesn’t mean you can’t practice.

What you can do, however, is start taking a hard look at your cycle or begin to test yourself to determine when you might ovulate. Then, armed with this information and which gender you want, you can come up with a new planned day that is much more likely to work. Just remember to conceive after ovulation for a boy and before it for a girl.

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