Yikes! DH's pH is only 7.7!

[Hobbermittens]

What can I do to raise it? I probably should have checked before, but I just did it last night. Should he do all the things I am doing, like the BS drink?

[atomic sagebrush]

That is high normal and I would not worry about it. He can do BSD if he wants to, but honestly I would be fine with that pH.

It's probable that very high pH is actually bad for sperm. pH in the 7's is optimal.

[begonia]

Hobber I second Atomic (as if that is necessary, LOL!) but really, I wouldn't fret about his pH at all. It's a good healthy one for him. I know I'm not the only one around here who thinks it but I just don't see much in the pH research that makes me believe it matters. I guess if his was BELOW normal I'd worry.

The interesting thing to me about all the IG sways is with the fact that they "require" 5 of 7 factors for your sway to in fact, be a SWAY, it's hard to know what REALLY matters. For me to believe pH works, I'd need to see sways based on that alone. It could very well be that you throw out pH and every single one of those boy sways that worked, still would have worked. It's obviously just my personal opinion, but it seems to me that if there is a natural mechanism in our bodies that triggers a favorable environment to one gender or the other, that natural mechanism would be tripped by very natural causes. Like ... no big shock, our diets. If we have to resort to relatively artificial measures (like BSF, BSD, etc) to "change" something, well, IMO, that isn't really changing your body at the core. It's faking it. BSF (which I know wasn't your Q) changes things for a matter of hours. I don't think that can nearly be as effective as those women who actually had a pH change based on weight changes or dietary changes. I guess I don't believe faking it will do nearly as much as naturally creating the change. All that said I did a BSF 1 hour before DTD :wink:

SO ... all that to say, my thought is if you want to try to get his pH up, maybe he could cut out acidic things? Eat a more alkaline diet?

[Flava]

He can drink BS if he want to .So if you like his pH higher give him that. But 7.7 is ok . My DH was 7.9 this week. Last time was 8.2 so it's not always the same anyway. I will check toning again but Im fine with this numbers.
The boys are in there, right?

[Zivic-Bubac]

My DH's pH is 8 and I'm not happy with that. He is not swaying, just swallowing supps I'm giving to him lol!

[cemas]

My DH's PH is also always between 7.8 to max 8.2....sometimes..never higher.
and he does do bds drink too.

[Hobbermittens]

It is good to know my DH is in the same range as a lot of other DHs. I just remember reading a post (can't remember whose now) that said their DH had a pH of 10! I thought we were aiming high like that. Glad we don't have to, because honestly, I think my DH would rather wear a tutu to work than drink the BS drink.

[Flava]

Hobber that was Zanacal and she is ttc girl! So she is not happy with pH 10 !
I tested last night and DH pH was 8.4 Im ok with that.
But it was funny when I put the meter in the cup it was lower and when I took it out it was higher. No clue why but i took the highest number lol.

[Hobbermittens]

Hobber that was Zanacal and she is ttc girl! So she is not happy with pH 10 !
I tested last night and DH pH was 8.4 Im ok with that.
But it was funny when I put the meter in the cup it was lower and when I took it out it was higher. No clue why but i took the highest number lol.

Oh, that's right! I can see why Zanacal would not want a pH of 10.

With your Hanna, do you calibrate it each time you use it? Or do you just take it out of the box and test with it? Do you rinse it in water first to take off the storage solution?

[Flava]

Oh, that's right! I can see why Zanacal would not want a pH of 10.

With your Hanna, do you calibrate it each time you use it? Or do you just take it out of the box and test with it? Do you rinse it in water first to take off the storage solution?

I only calibrate it once a week. And I don't even have storage solution just cleaning one lol so i put some of that in the cup (or water) and store it like that. Rinse it after use that's it.

[Hobbermittens]

I only calibrate it once a week. And I don't even have storage solution just cleaning one lol so i put some of that in the cup (or water) and store it like that. Rinse it after use that's it.

So you take it straight out of the cleaning solution and put it in your sample?

[Flava]

I just dry it on paper a little. Why what do you do with it?? I don't think rinsing with water is so different right? I just make sure it's not so wet so it's read the sample and not what ever was on it before.

[Hobbermittens]

I just dry it on paper a little. Why what do you do with it?? I don't think rinsing with water is so different right? I just make sure it's not so wet so it's read the sample and not what ever was on it before.

That's what I mean, I didn't want whatever the meter is being stored in to contaminate the sample. I just test my CM and DH's semen. I use an instead cup for mine, and I collect DH's in a baby food jar.

[atomic sagebrush]

Hobber I second Atomic (as if that is necessary, LOL!) but really, I wouldn't fret about his pH at all. It's a good healthy one for him. I know I'm not the only one around here who thinks it but I just don't see much in the pH research that makes me believe it matters. I guess if his was BELOW normal I'd worry.

The interesting thing to me about all the IG sways is with the fact that they "require" 5 of 7 factors for your sway to in fact, be a SWAY, it's hard to know what REALLY matters. For me to believe pH works, I'd need to see sways based on that alone. It could very well be that you throw out pH and every single one of those boy sways that worked, still would have worked. It's obviously just my personal opinion, but it seems to me that if there is a natural mechanism in our bodies that triggers a favorable environment to one gender or the other, that natural mechanism would be tripped by very natural causes. Like ... no big shock, our diets. If we have to resort to relatively artificial measures (like BSF, BSD, etc) to "change" something, well, IMO, that isn't really changing your body at the core. It's faking it. BSF (which I know wasn't your Q) changes things for a matter of hours. I don't think that can nearly be as effective as those women who actually had a pH change based on weight changes or dietary changes. I guess I don't believe faking it will do nearly as much as naturally creating the change. All that said I did a BSF 1 hour before DTD :wink:

SO ... all that to say, my thought is if you want to try to get his pH up, maybe he could cut out acidic things? Eat a more alkaline diet?

What the what??? I did not know that!! o.O Not sure what to make of that one.

begonia, thank you so much for putting into words what I completely believe. IF (and that's a big if) everything on IG actually works and sways the way that they think it does, at the end of the day all it is is treating the symptoms rather than curing the "disease" (not that having a lot of one gender is a disease in any way, but IKYKWIM.) I've had a lot of colds and even when I took a Tylenol and decongestant, I was still sick, even though a couple symptoms were better, the disease was still there doing its thing even if outwardly I felt like things were better.

I have always thought from the very beginning that first we have to figure out what the disease even is before we know how to treat it and that HAS to be something that would affect all people everywhere on the planet who are not doing any of this sway nonsense. Because virtually all of the boys and all of the girls who've ever been conceived were not to people who were using baking soda, aspartame, cranberry supplements, etc because none of those things ever used to exist. So it just can't be true that you HAVE to have pH of 9.9 to conceive a boy because most people don't have anywhere near that pH.

[zanacal]

... except my DH. *Sob*!

PS - I'm only joking, I'm not fretting about it either!

[atomic sagebrush]

... except my DH. *Sob*!

PS - I'm only joking, I'm not fretting about it either!

Haha yeah!! :)