- Girl sperms are larger and slower than boy sperms. They won't reach the egg as quickly, but they are more likely to get there in the end. They have more staying power, and they live longer.
- So to increase your chances of having a girl, you should really have had sex around two or three days before ovulation. Only the girl sperms will have lasted long enough to fertilise that huge furious egg when it is finally let loose.
- But if you wanted a boy, you should ideally have had sex on the very day of ovulation. Those lithe and athletic boy sperms will have reached the egg first, while the lumpen, large bottomed girl sperms lagged behind.
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And even that may not be an end to it. You, as sperm donor, can have influenced the odds even before you engaged in full blooded sexual congress with your beloved. For if you have been in the habit of ejaculating frequently in the preceding weeks, as well as going blind, you will have markedly reduced the proportion of boy sperms in your semen. If you have fallen out of the habit of frequent ejaculation - and let's face it, who of us hasn't from time to time? - then boy sperms will have predominated. A father of four boys may look pleased with himself, but behind his smug grin lie desperation and bitterness.
He may even walk with a stoop. Whereas a father of four girls is often very good at table football. This also explains why so many people you know had a daughter first and a son afterwards (including me.) Armed with this information, you can spend many happy hours speculating about your friends' sex lives, just as they are speculating about yours. In medieval Germany people believed that if you had sex when it was raining you'd have a girl, whereas if the sun was shining it would be a boy. Haven't we come far?
Personally, I was happy not to know. I suspect that if you do find out, your mind gets to work and you start imagining all sorts of rubbish, much of it recycled from your own appalling childhood. Will I like this baby? Will it like me? You can speculate all you want, but the fact remains that you have no idea who this little individual will be - and simply knowing whether it's a he or a she won't change this. Until the birth all you will have is the evidence of your eyes. And until your baby grows to the size of a potato in the fourth month, you won't even have that.
At three months there isn't really a bump as such: only a hint of the joys to come. Swimming around in amniotic fluid, Junior is just about fully formed. Fingers, toes, eyes, ears - they are all there. He or she also has a covering of fine hair. Muscles are beginning to develop. Prod the infant and it will wriggle. It's a long way from being born, but already it knows that it doesn't like being prodded. Personality already! Fingernails follow later.
Even without the bump, the mother-to-be will be starting to gain weight. This may be a painful experience for her, and a deeply tedious one for you, especially if you love her and don't care how much she weighs. Such is the malevolent, misogynist influence of the gay men who run the fashion industry that most women now seem to equate even the smallest weight gain with moral failure. But there's no choice in the matter. Pregnant women put on extra pounds. It may be permanent, it may not. To find out more, you can check out Pregnancy First Month Signs And Symptoms.