A lot of couples want to have a child of their own. If only allowed they want to conceive a boy. But not all are lucky to have one. While many couples trust fate to decide the gender of their child, there are those who earnestly seek for solutions to conceive a boy. All the while there exist methods that medical experts themselves recommend to their patients. These methods helped a lot of couples around the world who also dreamed to have a boy child. There are a lot of methods available. One of these is the Shettles method.

The Shettles method revolves around the concept of ovulation. According to this method, there are three ways to know the ovulation of women. These are by checking the cervical mucus, observing the basal body temperature and through the use of the ovulation kits. When the ovulation period is determined by using one of the ways, this gives both couple the best time to conceive a boy. In using this method, the couple will have an insight of the ovulation period, when it mostly occur and when to have a sexual intercourse.

When the couples already determined when the ovulation will mostly occur, they also must consider the best sex position. Sexual position can help a lot because it causes the sperm to be deposited near the cervix. There are two best positions that will increase the chance of the couples to have a boy. These are the missionary position and the dog style. The missionary position is when the guy is on top of the woman and by now you can already visualize the dog style. These positions help the sperms to be deposited near the cervix. Therefore by doing these positions these makes the sperms, specifically the male sperms to fertilize the egg cell first.

Shettles method also considers the diet to have a boy child. Eating more alkaline foods will increase the odds in conceiving the said gender. Alkaline foods make the pH levels around the vaginal environment to increase. The increase in the pH levels means that the vaginal environment to be basic. A basic environment helps the male sperm to moves against the unfriendly environment of the vagina. A basic environment helps the ovum attracts more male sperms. If this exists, the chance of conceiving a boy increases. This then bring so much joy for the couples who wish to have a boy.