How to Increase the Odds of Conceiving a Girl

Folk Solutions/Urban Legends

Eat lots of fish and vegetables during the time you are trying to conceive. Give in to all of your chocolate cravings.

Take calcium and magnesium supplements in the months leading to conception.

Take Sudafed the day before intercourse to create an environment attractive to sperm containing the X chromosome.

Make love in the woman-on-top or missionary position with the woman climaxing before the man.

Shettles Method

Time your intercourse during optimal times to conceive a girl as outlined by Landrum B. Shettles in his book "How to Choose the Sex of Your Baby."

Chart the woman's cervical mucus and basal body temperature with the help of an ovulation-predictor kit.

Have sex 2 1/2 to three days before ovulation, with the male partner performing shallow penetration.

Avoid female orgasm during intercourse, as it may make the vagina too alkaline for the girl-producing sperm.

Selective Science

Go to a fertility clinic and pay for a Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis, or PGD.

Choose the sex of your baby by having the embryos created outside the body so that they can be tested for gender and selectively implanted.

Pay for a MicroSort artificial insemination.