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When you have been trying unsuccessfully to have a baby for six months to a year, you probably spend your days thinking of little else. You are not alone. About 7.3 million women in the U.S. have difficulty getting or staying pregnant, as of 2009, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. You know that you could try fertility drugs, but you may only want to do that as a last resort.

On average, you have slightly more than a 50 percent chance of conceiving a boy and a slightly less than a 50 percent chance of conceiving a girl, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The same research reveals that older moms (over 40) have closer to a 50/50 chance of having a boy or girl and that the more children you have, the more likely you are to have the same number of boys and girls. If you have a house full of rough-and-tumble boys or darling girls who have you tripping over dress-up clothes, you may feel the need to add a child to balance out the family dynamics. You dont have to leave it completely up to chance. There is a scientifically based way, called Shettles method, that helps influence the sex of the baby, says Toni Weschler in Taking Charge of Your Fertility.

If you have been trying to get pregnant for a year and havent been successful, you have an infertility problem. This happens to many couples. About one-third of the time, infertility is because of the woman, another one-third is due to the man, and the remaining one-third either is because of both parties or is unknown, according to the Medline Plus. Infertility problems are treatable; two out of three couples with infertility will have babies.