'It's all in the timing': 95-year-old Nana reveals her trick to conceive a girl
By Nikolina Koevska Kharoufeh |
N?ana knows who she is. She's been on this earth for 95 years, has 10 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren and has never missed a week of bingo at the local RSL.
She is such a force that I call her Nana and she isn't even my grandma. Now that's respect.
?So when she recently sat me down at a family dinner and told me the secret to conceiving a girl, I knew what she was telling me had to be right.
Here I am passing down the trick to you.
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Oh, and a quick disclaimer: Methods of trying for a boy or a girl don't guarantee success, and aren't always backed by scientific evidence. But hey, you've got a 50 per cent chance! ?
"It's all in the timing," she told me as she gestured for me to sit down next to her on the couch.
I hadn't seen Nana since I had my second son, Leo, nine months ago.
The first thing she asked me when I walked through her grandson's front door (my brother-in-law) was, "When are you having your next?"
It wasn't a question of whether I was or wasn't, but rather when.
?And after nervously admitting to Nana that I wasn't yet 100 per cent sold on trying for a third because I could end up with three cheeky boys, she told me not to worry.
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Nana has four kids of her own. Three girls, Sylvia, Marina and Lucia and one boy, Michael.
And while it's been a while since she was in that phase of life where she was falling pregnant and giving birth, she remembers it like it was yesterday.
"I remember before I fell pregnant with my last I knew I wanted a boy, so I figured it out," she said proceeding to explain how she uncovered the secret to conceiving each gender.
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"I went back and thought about it and realised that with each of my girls, I had conceived them either right before my period or right after," she explained.
"It was always ?within those two weeks."
"So I thought I'd try to see if I waited to conceive halfway between my periods, whether it would be the key to having a boy," she told me with a smile in her voice.
When she went to her first doctor's appointment after falling pregnant for the last time, she told the doctor her theory.
"I told him that I knew this time it was going to be a boy and he laughed."
You see when Nana was pregnant, there was no test to tell you the gender of the baby before they were born. So it was a long nine month wait before she got the results of her experiment.
And ?you guessed it, Nana was right. She gave birth to a beautiful baby boy, her son Michael.
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"I went back to the doctor after he was born and I reminded him of my theory and he said I was right," she proudly said and gave me a wink.
"So it's that simple. If you want a girl, you just do the opposite of what I did. You conceive ?either right before your period, or right after."
The confidence in Nana's voice not only convinced me to try for a third, but to also try out the theory so I can perhaps fall pregnant with a little girl.
"I don't have too much time left so you'll have to do it quick so I know it worked," she laughed.
So I guess I better hurry up! ?
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