Swayed for a boy in 2011/2012 and we are having a...

[LolaInLove]

Was the seat up or down? Was the lid open or closed? That's all I want to know!

I'm all for finding fun places to DTD. Hard when you have kids, though!! Sometimes really late at night, we will DTD in front of the fire. That's always kind of romantic!

LOL! The lids and seats were all down, he was sitting on it. You get the picture. We chose the bathroom primarily because we had just put the kids down for bed and wanted to make sure we didn't get an interruption for a few minutes there!

[LolaInLove]

I love it too Lola! I think IG had us so convinced if you did all 7 you would succeed, if you "failed" it's because YOU did something wrong. I got lucky this time, turned just enough blue to tip my odds when we rolled. This is part of why I will/would never sway again.

TOTALLY. I think you are lucky if you get what you swayed for. I literally started to have like swaying panic attacks when on IG for that very reason. My DH thought I was losing it. You really get obsessive when you think there is a magic formula....but when you know there ISN'T, you just do your best and keep your fingers crossed. Much better on the psyche, for sure. I am SOOOOO happy that you got your little man, though, 3, you really deserve him after the m/c and all. XXOO

[3Pink1Blue]

Thanks hun, I don't say it much out of fear of hurting others, but I do feel truly fortunate to be able to finish our family this way.

DH was hesitant to try again after the m/c because of how nuts I was during my IG sway. I think he would have refused to continue had the monkeys not driven everyone off IG and sent me looking elsewhere. The dice analogy and finally being told there is no do-this-get-boy-guarantee really hit home for me and I stopped a lot of the obsessing.

[Freya]

Hi, you can add me too, I swayed for boy but got a girl. Couldn't be more pleased in the end, so there you go!

[LolaInLove]

Hi Freya! You are soooo close!!!! How are you feeling?

3P1B, I could not agree more....the demise of IG was the best thing for me, and a lot of us, really!

[3Pink1Blue]

Hey Freya!! How are you?

[TTC5]

Hi, you can add me too, I swayed for boy but got a girl. Couldn't be more pleased in the end, so there you go!

Hi Freya! Congrats on the girl!! Sorry to hear it wasn't your son this time, will you try again some day? xx

[begonia]

TOTALLY. I think you are lucky if you get what you swayed for. I literally started to have like swaying panic attacks when on IG for that very reason. My DH thought I was losing it. You really get obsessive when you think there is a magic formula....but when you know there ISN'T, you just do your best and keep your fingers crossed. Much better on the psyche, for sure. I am SOOOOO happy that you got your little man, though, 3, you really deserve him after the m/c and all. XXOO

ITA with this

[begonia]

After reading NBP's post about cherry picking stats on IG, that totally makes sense, because at first after reading this thread, I felt like hey, maybe the IG way works better, but you guys are totally right, there were not really good stats there. Our blue crew there last year had more boys than girls, but eh.....

I know Lola ... I think about that a lot. I don't regret swaying the way that I did, I definitely did not have an IG sway. But from our little CBBC (granted it was only about 10 swayers) 8 of them did get their boys. And I know we followed each other for months so no "cherry picking" involved; we knew pretty well what each other were/weren't doing. I do think even for those 8 though some were just lucky; after all Nutter was the 1st to admit she had a crappy IG diet but she still got her blue. Still, we were pretty honest with each other and that group did end up with a lot of boys...8 of 10 is either darned lucky or there's something there that is worth trying to connect the dots.

[ELP]

..8 of 10 is either darned lucky or there's something there that is worth trying to connect the dots.

Those stats are definately worth looking over B Thats if we could ever get on there to go over old posts grr! Did anyone get any update from Mas?? Did she get her boy????