length of follicular phase and gender

Has anyone read this study... I'm concerned, another factor against me :(  My follicular phase is between 8-10 days, on the short side.

I went looking about short follicular phases when this month's was 7 days, even shorter than usual and found this study. 

Any thoughts?  Does anyone else have shorter phases and have boys, I have two boys, I also did not drink any milk or any dairy besides a little cheese and love salt :)  I have changed to the girl diet but I don't know much I can do about my follicular phase :(  Would taking soy delay it a little?

The sex of the baby may be related to the length of the follicular phase in the conception cycle.

Unique Identifier 95286765
Authors Weinberg CR. Baird DD. Wilcox AJ.
Title The sex of the baby may be related to the length of the follicular phase in the conception cycle.
Source Human Reproduction. 10(2):304-7, 1995 Feb.
Abstract
"In a prospective study of normal couples discontinuing contraception to begin a
pregnancy, the days of ovulation were estimated by hormonal assay of daily urine specimens. No
hormonal interventions were used. Length of the follicular phase (from onset of menses to
ovulation) was found to be related to the sex of the baby among 133 pregnancies that survived to
delivery. Conception cycles with short follicular phases (early ovulation) tended to produce boys, while those with long follicular phases tended to produce girls. This relationship is consistent with other data and could explain sex-related differences in the length of gestation and the observed excess of same-sex pairs among dizygotic twins."

I have long cycles and got a boy! But I love the boy diet! :) Diet is a huge part!

It's too bad that they don't say any percentages, just "tended to produce boys". It doesn't even say "more boys". Kinda wierd.

I'm sure it's more specific if you could access the whole article - this is just the abstract that I could get for free :)

i have long cycles (long-ER i guess i should say, not terribly long), they are around 33 days long and i have 2 boys. i also O'ed late both times when i got pg, around CD 17 with my first and CD 23 with my second. i think it is more diet/hormone related. you can find correlations with anything. they could also say "each women that had a short FP also liked to wear dresses" and we would all be dumping our dresses in the lake (for TTC girl)!!! lol I drive myself crazy analyzing stats and sometimes i think unless they control for ALL variables then there is always likely to be a correlation. interesting though, but not true for me.

I have a normal length cycle with a short follicular phase, ovulating early and then having a long LP.  Weird I guess :) ovulate on day 8-10 than a 16-18 day LP. Ending up with 28 day cycle usually. 

I know there will be exceptions, and what is "normal" :) but wondering if  anyone has heard of this or read the whole study?

thanks!

 

When I had my girls I O'd on CD11 & CD12.

I ovulated on day 19ish with both my boys.. So I wouldn't worry to much about that study!

this study was made in 1995, if you look there are new ones that say the opposite and some that say it doesn't matter

It is opposite for me, I ovulated both times on cd 17 ,this time probably also and have 2 boys ,maybe 3. I don't think that you should be concerned.

Thank you everyone, I was feeling a little doomed! :)