Is There Anything That I Should Eat Before Sex If I Want To Conceive A Boy Or Girl?

By: Sandy Dean:  I sometimes hear from people who are hoping to conceive in the very near future.  In fact, many intend to conceive on that same day or evening.  Many of them ask me what they should eat right before sex in order to increase their odds of conceiving a boy or girl baby.  They sort of envision that they can have a quick snack, have sex, and then conceive their desired gender that night. Unfortunately, it often isn’t this simple.  Although a woman’s diet can influence her PH (which in turn can influence her baby’s gender,) changing your PH often takes more than just having a snack before sex.  Not only that, but many couples ask this question as if they assume that both of their snacks matter or have an affect on their baby’s gender.  In fact, only the woman’s PH comes into play in terms of baby gender.  Now, I’ll go over how food affects whether you have a girl or a boy.

If You Want To Conceive A Girl Baby:  As I alluded to before, just having a snack right before sex may not be quite enough to change your PH enough to make any difference.  The easiest way to tell if you are where you need to be is to test your PH regularly long before you attempt to conceive.  I can tell you from experience that it can take more than a day or two to see any real change.  However, some people are close enough to their desired PH that they are able to use both diet and douching to bring about very quick change.  So, for a girl baby you want an acidic PH.  This discourages the Y or boy sperm.  The types of foods or snacks that are acidic are things like meat, dairy, and grains (although there are some fruits and vegetables that are acidic, most are not.)  In terms of beverages, coffee and cola are acidifying.  A good place to start would be to take your PH and see if you are already acidic.  If you are, you will typically need less time to reach your goal. If you are not, you can try to combine douching with diet to get quicker results.

If You Want A Boy Baby:  If you want a son, then you want to do the opposite of what I have described above.  You want an alkaline PH because you don’t want for the high acidity to discourage or kill off the boy or Y sperm.  Generally speaking, the more healthy foods (like fruits and vegetables) are alkaline.  But, it’s an oversimplification to assume that all fruits and vegetable are the same in terms of alkalinity.  As I said above, there are foods in every category that are exceptions.  Nuts can also be alkaline as can apple cider vinegar.  I’d like to make one more point.  Some foods start out as alkaline or acidic but change once they begin to metabolize in your body.  That’s why it’s important to do your research and, more than that, to test for yourself to be sure how you react to foods that you eat regularly.

So to answer the question posed, while the woman or mother-to-be can try to eat an acidic snack if she wants a girl and an alkaline snack if she wants a boy, this will sometimes not be enough depending on her reading at the time she tries to conceive.  If you know that you’re going to attempt to conceive in the near future, you may want to test before that so that you have time to come up with a plan ahead of time.