Calcium???

[FitBlonde]

It seems that calcium and magnesium are still having a high success rate (71%). I am taking magnesium tablets to try and help prevent morning sickness (I get it very severe). Would taking calcium citrate in powder form hurt my sway at all?

[carmella_marie]

The overall thought of decreasing maternal condition resulting in girls means you wouldn't want to add any nutrients to a girl sway IMHO but it's up to you. Those statistics are hard because those taking calcium/mag could also be exercising and doing one attempt abs maybe that's why they resulted in girls it's hard to study these things in a vacuum KWIM??

[LilithWiser1979]

I would check out atomic's Calcium Conundrum essay. It's a highly personal decision to include cal/mag in a pink sway. There are great arguments for AND against it.

Personally, I won't be doing it because I conceived a boy taking those supps last time.

[purpledream]

Or you could put your hubby on it like I'm doing and many others have...

[carmella_marie]

http://genderdreaming.com/forum/ttc-girl-best-practices/609-calcium-conundrum-controversial.html

[FitBlonde]

Thanks. I will be taking the magnesium as I have low levels and I want them to increase before I get pregnant to try and prevent morning sickness. I will omit the calcium.

[atomic sagebrush]

There are some things where the people who are the strictest on everything do them and it makes the success rates look artificially high. Our stats are not at all scientific and so you have to go into them with a skeptical eye.

I personally believe the evidence, historical, biological, and anectodal is against the cal-mag. The best study ever done on maternal diet shows that moms who went onto conceive boys were actually getting more calcium than those who conceived all girls and around the world, ethnic groups that are totally lactose intolerant and hardly ever eat dairy at all, have more girls than ethnic groups that eat dairy foods. We have numbers from IG that compare the two groups and cal mag for DH did nothing, cal mag for DW actually got more boys than girls. And our stats comparing IG and LE Diets - IG Diet which includes calcium supps got something like 48% while LE is at 68 right now.

I got my 4th boy taking tons of cal and my girl not taking any and not eating many dairy foods (I've always eaten tons of dairy) and I am really not a believer in the cal mag.

Above all else it's your sway and you need to do what you feel comfortable with. I would def. look into the safety because these massive doses of stuff are almost certainly harmful for health and have been linked to heart disease

[Mrsandmama]

OOoo no I refused to take ANY vitamin supps when I was trying to conceive this bub. The only thing I took was fiber and folic acid. Science says the more nutrients you get= more likely to have a boy.

[atomic sagebrush]

The overall thought of decreasing maternal condition resulting in girls means you wouldn't want to add any nutrients to a girl sway IMHO but it's up to you. Those statistics are hard because those taking calcium/mag could also be exercising and doing one attempt abs maybe that's why they resulted in girls it's hard to study these things in a vacuum KWIM??

What they need to do in order for me to believe this, is take two groups of several hundred women doing nothing else to sway (including diet, they should just be eating a normal diet), give one cal mag and then the other not. If cal mag does anything, then there should be significantly more girls conceived in the cal mag group. Then they need to repeat the experiment, preferably by switching the two groups and then the second group also has more daughters on the cal-mag. Or I would also accept the first experiment repeated 3 times by different researchers. Till then, I think the facts are against calcium and swaying.