Like so many hundreds of hopeful parents you are ready to bring a little guy into the family and you want to learn how to conceive a baby boy. So you say you’d be excited as long as the baby’s healthy, but admit it: deep down, you’re praying for a baby boy.

You’re not alone. Couples have been trying for hundreds of years to increase their chances of conceiving a boy. Old wives from days of old touted everything from red meat and salt to intercourse during a full moon. No one knows for sure whether or not these methods actually work, but that hasn’t stopped thousands of people from trying.

    In recent years, couples are better able to conceive a boy with the advent of artificial insemination and in-vitro fertilization, allowing those with the means to do so to select the gender of their unborn child. Adoption is another foolproof way to get the gender of your choice. Most parents-to-be, though, bypass fertility treatments and utilize at-home gender selection instead.

Some suggested methods for conceiving a boy include timing your ovulation (the closer intercourse is to ovulation, some believe, the greater the chance of conceiving a boy), charting cervical mucus and Basal Body Temperature and employing certain positions during intercourse. Boxers are better than briefs if Dad wants to conceive a baby boy, since too-tight undies can lower sperm counts. Dad should also ensure that his partner achieves orgasm, as the woman’s vagina, post-orgasm, has a higher alkalinity that is friendlier to “boy” sperm.

    The process of conceiving a baby boy is a complex dance of luck. Of the 200-400 million sperm released into a woman, only one will make it into her fertile egg (kind of like the “American Idol” of conception). Each egg in her body carries an X chromosome. A meeting with a sperm with another X-chromosome will result in a little girl nine months down the road. If you are hoping to conceive a boy, you’ll vote for a sperm toting the Y-chromosome to get to Mommy’s egg first.

One way to get those lazy “boys” moving us with a caffeine shot; Dad is encouraged to drink soda or coffee right before intercourse, if he wants to conceive a baby boy. Some even claim that Mom should drink cough syrup before intercourse,  as it thins the cervical mucus and makes it easier for the “Y guys” to make it in faster. To tip the scale even more your way, many people refer to the Chinese Lunar Birth Calendar, which predicts a baby’s gender based on the mother’s age and the month in which she conceives.

Since 51 boys are born for every 49 girls, you’ve got an advantage if you want to conceive a boy. While male sperm make for faster swimmers, says Dr. Shettles of The Shettles Method, they are not as hardy, biologically as their female counterparts. So, while you can never have complete control over the outcome, it certainly won’t hurt to try a few tricks and give your baby boy the best shot he can get.

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