Can eating breakfast cereals and oatmeal help you conceive a boy or a girl?

Yesterday I received an email from someone telling me that they had heard that eating oatmeal and other cereals would make a difference in having a baby boy or a girl, but didn’t know which gender it favored. There are many factors that go into gender selection. Food is just one of them. But on its own, the variable of eating lots of breakfast foods, like cereal, oatmeal, would slightly favor a baby boy. However, as this is only a small variable when more can come into play, consuming one food is unlikely to be the deciding factor for the sex of your baby. I will discuss more about this matter in the next article.

Why breakfast foods and alkaline foods (like oatmeal) are said to be good for baby boys: In fact, there is an English study that indicated that women who ate more calories and more food for breakfast (particularly cereals) were slightly more likely to conceive children. The word “slightly” in the last sentence is very important. Specifically, the women in the study who ate the most calories were 56% more likely to have a boy, compared to 45% who had girls. And women who ate more than two bowls of breakfast cereal per day were more likely to have children (59%). So these things give you a bit of an edge, but the stats here aren’t overwhelming.

Another criteria that I feel I should mention is that oatmeal is an alkaline food. Most grains (like oatmeal, rice, quinoa, etc.) will help your body become more alkaline and less acidic. And an alkaline body and reproductive tract is another thing that favors children. This is because the Y sperm produced by boys do not develop very well or survive very long in an acidic environment. That said, oatmeal is just an acidic food, and since you need to have a varied and well-rounded diet when trying to get pregnant, you should incorporate a wide variety of alkaline foods if your goal is a boy.

Other things that can affect if you have a boy and a girl: Food and your diet are a variable that you can control, but this is not the only thing you can look at. Do not misunderstand. Diet and nutrition are important, but if this is the only thing you’re addressing, you may be falling short.

You can and should also address the time you use. By this I mean that the time you conceive in relation to the time you ovulate is also equally important. Remember those guys who produced Y and had a hard time with acid? They also have difficulties with longevity, which means they don’t live as long. So if you want a girl, you can take advantage of this by conceiving before you ovulate. If you want a boy, you’ll want to wait until this day has passed.

The final criteria that you can control for your own benefit is the sexual positions that you use. Now, remember that you only want to use them on days when your AP and time are correct. But, on the right days, if you use shallow penetration, you’ll make things more favorable for the sperm producing female babies. And if you use deeper penetration, it will give the sperm-producing boy the little extra boost he often needs to overcome his vulnerabilities to time and acid.