Sometimes I hear from women who want to know what their husband or partner should do to help them get the gender they want when they are trying to conceive. One of the variables I am sometimes asked about is warm or hot showers.

I heard someone say, “I heard that if a man takes a very hot shower before having sex, it will help him have a girl baby. Is that correct? Or the hot shower advice for trying to conceive a boy?” . ?”

The idea behind this advice is that the heat of the shower will lower the man’s sperm count. And as this process occurs, more of the Y-producing or boy sperm would be removed because those sperm chromosomes are weaker. So, following this same line of thought, the theory is that the sperm left over after the hot shower is more likely to be girl-producing. Therefore, if the theory is correct, it would be more likely to be a girl (not a boy).

I see the logic of this kind of thinking but I think it is not entirely sensible. I’ll tell you why in the next article.

A man’s sperm can be affected by changes in temperature, but it has to be extreme: It is true that sperm are very sensitive to temperature. It is said that this is why the evidence of a man is found outside of his body. However, it takes more than a hot shower to raise his body temperature, which is what it takes to have a significant impact on sperm.

Now, if you were talking about a very hot sauna or sitting in a hot tub for an extended period of time, these things could actually lower your sperm count. But when you are trying to get pregnant, I think you would want a higher sperm count to increase your chances of conceiving. But more important than that, what a man does today affects his future sperm, not his current sperm, which brings me to my next point.

Sperm takes 2 to 3 months to produce. Today’s habits only affect future production: Just for the sake of argument, let’s say that the hot shower would affect the man’s sperm. The thing to remember is that it takes months for sperm to be produced. So if a man took a shower today, it would have an effect on the sperm he is producing months from now, but not on his immediate future. Therefore, taking a shower before having sex will not affect the sperm that will be released that same day in an attempt to conceive at all.

That is why this theory is not sound in my opinion. Not only is a hot shower not enough to lower your sperm count, but even if it did, it would affect what happens in the months that follow. So, to answer the question posed, there are old superstitions suggesting that a man’s hot shower before conception favors a girl, but there is little science to back this up.

And, if this couple wanted a girl, the best idea would be to have sex before ovulation when the woman had an acidic PH and also avoided orgasm. These things have an immediate and significant effect. Also, with this method you can keep your sperm count high to give you the best chance of success. Remember that each chromosome of the sperm increases your chance of pregnancy, so you want to have a high count, not a low one.