Our egg is 90 days old?

[Flava]

I did some research about egg quality and such and find it interesting.
Like this site show how the egg is preparing for O and how to help the quality of the egg. It's interesting.

http://www.squidoo.com/egg-health

So let say I want to ttc in Oct. then I better start taking care of that egg in Aug. because that's the egg Im going to release in Oct. right?
Take all the sups , vit. do the diet and all so the egg will be all healthy and ready ( and hopefully boy friendly for me) for conception on O day, right?

[purplepoet20]

This is why I chose to take... Folic Acid, Iron, A, E, B6, and C. And the girl friendly ones like Calcium and Mag. I eat the minium amount of other nutrients needed for healthy like Potassium. I would the happiest person in the world if I have a girl to complete my family but no matter what I have I want a healthy baby.

I also take herbs for nursing and Raspberry leaf because they all help baby oven health... most likely why I carried both boys a week+ after their due dates.

[nuthinbutpink]

Egg life-cycle is 90 days- that is why I recommend taking any swaying supps atleast that long to help out- for quality purposes for anyone struggling with that, absolutely atleast 90 days to take affect.

[Flava]

This is so good to know! Im glad I started all this early so maybe I can wire the egg to favor a little Y hopefully.
So when ppl say they sway and try in the same month it really don't do to much for that egg I guess.

[TTC5]

Does this mean if I am not pregnant this cycle, I will have to wait 90 days as I went off supps/diet in the TWW??

[Hobbermittens]

Does this mean if I am not pregnant this cycle, I will have to wait 90 days as I went off supps/diet in the TWW??

That is a good question!!!! I was wondering the same thing.

[Flava]

Does this mean if I am not pregnant this cycle, I will have to wait 90 days as I went off supps/diet in the TWW??

I would think no because you was on it for the rest of the time right? Yeah 2 weeks missing but there is the other 2 and a half months when you did it all. And you go back on for another 2 weeks till the next O.
At least I hope it's like this...This is why we don't stop the diet in the 2ww.

[atomic sagebrush]

Does this mean if I am not pregnant this cycle, I will have to wait 90 days as I went off supps/diet in the TWW??

NO. But I prefer that people stay on most of the diet during the 2WW anyway (with obvious exceptions for sodium and other things that are not healthy for a little baby bean) because of the blood sugar stuff.

[atomic sagebrush]

This is so good to know! Im glad I started all this early so maybe I can wire the egg to favor a little Y hopefully.
So when ppl say they sway and try in the same month it really don't do to much for that egg I guess.

That's a big reason why I'm trying to make a more healthy diet, so people can stay on the diets for several months at a time while their eggs and sperm develop, without making themselves sick or overweight.

But there are a lot of other things that potentially sway that have nothing to do with the egg at all.

CM, blood sugar, pH, sperm count and number can all be affected by diet/swaying in the short term and have nothing to do with making an egg more or less friendly to the X or Y sperm and yet they still seem to sway.

Researchers have looked into the idea that an egg is somehow "primed" to receive a sperm of a certain gender and as of yet, have not witnessed this happening. http://www.biolreprod.org/content/ea...70169.full.pdf Also, most people going HT seem to get fairly equal numbers of XX and XY, even the moms who have several of one gender seem to end up with both. This leads me to think that it's not the egg attracting X or Y sperm, some other factor is what is doing the swaying, and it may very well be things that are easily controlled with 6 weeks of diet/supps rather than the full 90 days.

[atomic sagebrush]

Egg life-cycle is 90 days- that is why I recommend taking any swaying supps atleast that long to help out- for quality purposes for anyone struggling with that, absolutely atleast 90 days to take affect.

For egg quality, I TOTALLY agree!!! 90 days at the least.