There's hope for me yet

[atomic sagebrush]

Plus we were both taking INSANE amounts of cranberry supps, plus calcium and magnesium. Probably overkill I'm sure....don't know how we managed to actually conceive at all. Lol

Those things may not really cut odds of conception much (although seriously girl, you were taking insane amounts of cranberry LOL). In comparison to some things like antihistamine, which really may.

[1moregirl]

Thanks Atomic. Yes I hear you loud and clear. No antihistamine. What should I do about the probiotic I am taking? Is there any way to counteract the effects of that in my sway? Would me stopping taking it around O day for a few days be of benefit? And what BD timing did you use when you got your girl Atomic? I get worried about BD every 4 days because on the IG they said that was boy zone. With the girl we have we BD on a 3 and 5 day cut off, plus every day around O as well. But with our first son we BD a few times prior to O 2 days in a row. With our third boy we BD twice in a row around O. I know timing is not that important as a sway factor but I'm worried I'm not doing much to increase my odds of getting a girl. I'm worried that everything I'm doing to increase my health and fertility is going to work against me and get me a third boy, not that would be the be all and end all of course.

[atomic sagebrush]

You need the probiotic. that isn't open for debate, if you need something for health and wellbeing you MUST continue to take it. Stopping it for a few days at ovulation would be meaningless because the microorganisms are actually colonizing your intestines and living in there. Just stopping them will not make the ones that are there go away, and could possibly give a toehold for the bad guys to come back again.

When I got my girl my husband and I were having unprotected sex about every 3-5 days and this correlated to my attempt being late at night (about 1 am) the day before O day which is classic Shettles boy timing. I have 3 of 4 boys with girl cutoffs so a total of 4 timing opposites for me.

It is not that timing is an unimportant sway factor. It is that it doesn't work and has been 110% debunked by modern technology. I know I can say it till I"m blue in the face and you're still going to have those doubts but our results have one attempt regardless of day fluctuating between 70-75% and every 4 days at 75% right now.

EVERY pink sway tactic there is reduces odds of conception. That is the reality of pink swaying. There is no pink friendly tactic that ups odds of conception. So you need to turn this around in your mind to say NOT that you're not increasing your odds of getting a girl, but that you really ARE. You have one chance here and time is not our friend anyway even if you were not limited to one shot. If you add in bullshit sway tactics that don't even work, you are actually not increasing your odds of getting a girl becuase you are DECREASING your odds of conceiving. If you do not get pregnant, in this one month you have to try, then you have ZERO percent chance of getting a girl.

[1moregirl]

Had an ER scare a week and half ago when I went in for stomach pain (turned out to be several infections and a cyst) and in the process they did an ultrasound and I only had a yolk sac and was measuring 6w0d when I was 7w0d so they took my betas and had the Ob take them Monday. Then a scan at the Ob on last Thur said there was 2 yolk sacs, measuring still 6w0d and still no fetal poles. Betas were really high and increasing: 50000-72000-110000. Still concerned about there being no babies but the dr wanted me to wait 2 weeks.

Any updates Hun? I've been thinking of you and hoping the best outcome for you.

[signingmommyfor3]

Well I went in for the private scan Thursday and they told me that my uterus isn't slightly tilted but it's really tilted and at this stage because babies are so small and having a tilted uterus it's hard to do a abdominal ultrasound and they don't do vaginal ultrasound there. They were able to confirm that the gestational sac is growing, in 7days measurements went from 6w0d to 7w3d, and there is blood flowing to the gestational sac. She didn't see a reason for concern and They said that I could come back in 2 to 3 weeks for another private ultrasound for free since they were able to do anything really See anything at this one. Have an appt with the Ob this Thursday and he will do a vaginal ultrasound but for now I feel that at least 1 baby is in there growing.

[1moregirl]

Well I went in for the private scan Thursday and they told me that my uterus isn't slightly tilted but it's really tilted and at this stage because babies are so small and having a tilted uterus it's hard to do a abdominal ultrasound and they don't do vaginal ultrasound there. They were able to confirm that the gestational sac is growing, in 7days measurements went from 6w0d to 7w3d, and there is blood flowing to the gestational sac. She didn't see a reason for concern and They said that I could come back in 2 to 3 weeks for another private ultrasound for free since they were able to do anything really See anything at this one. Have an appt with the Ob this Thursday and he will do a vaginal ultrasound but for now I feel that at least 1 baby is in there growing.

That's great news Hun! Sounds really promising. Is a tilted uterus something that you always have or something that can just occur after having a baby or two already? As long as there's one little bubba in there growing healthily away, then that will be a blessing. I never realised how delicate and fragile baby making is until a miscarriage. Then it all gets put into perspective and we feel blessed to have at least one healthy baby. Keep us posted and I hope things keep progressing well for you. Take care.

[maidentomother]

Yay signing! I had a good feeling and I hope all continues well. I have an extremely tilted uterus too. I think it may be genetic, my mom had one too, and mine has been tilted my whole life.

Sometimes they stay flipped forward after pregnancy but I don't think pregnancy can cause a tilted uterus.

[1moregirl]

You need the probiotic. that isn't open for debate, if you need something for health and wellbeing you MUST continue to take it. Stopping it for a few days at ovulation would be meaningless because the microorganisms are actually colonizing your intestines and living in there. Just stopping them will not make the ones that are there go away, and could possibly give a toehold for the bad guys to come back again.

When I got my girl my husband and I were having unprotected sex about every 3-5 days and this correlated to my attempt being late at night (about 1 am) the day before O day which is classic Shettles boy timing. I have 3 of 4 boys with girl cutoffs so a total of 4 timing opposites for me.

It is not that timing is an unimportant sway factor. It is that it doesn't work and has been 110% debunked by modern technology. I know I can say it till I"m blue in the face and you're still going to have those doubts but our results have one attempt regardless of day fluctuating between 70-75% and every 4 days at 75% right now.

EVERY pink sway tactic there is reduces odds of conception. That is the reality of pink swaying. There is no pink friendly tactic that ups odds of conception. So you need to turn this around in your mind to say NOT that you're not increasing your odds of getting a girl, but that you really ARE. You have one chance here and time is not our friend anyway even if you were not limited to one shot. If you add in bullshit sway tactics that don't even work, you are actually not increasing your odds of getting a girl becuase you are DECREASING your odds of conceiving. If you do not get pregnant, in this one month you have to try, then you have ZERO percent chance of getting a girl.

I hear you loud and clear Atomic. Thanks soooo much Hun. I really do appreciate all your replies and advice. I just have two more questions - (1) I have only been taking 100mg ubiquinol per day - is that enough? Or should I be taking at least 400mg daily? Also, how am I supposed to wean off of these when I get a BFP if they come in capsule form? (2) would we have a better chance of getting a girl if we BD every 3-4 days as opposed to just the one shot at pos OPK? Thanks so much once again. I am trying to pluck up the courage to give it a go this next cycle coming up and AF arrives in a couple of days, so I guess I'm getting a bit jittery.

[atomic sagebrush]

That's great news Hun! Sounds really promising. Is a tilted uterus something that you always have or something that can just occur after having a baby or two already? As long as there's one little bubba in there growing healthily away, then that will be a blessing. I never realised how delicate and fragile baby making is until a miscarriage. Then it all gets put into perspective and we feel blessed to have at least one healthy baby. Keep us posted and I hope things keep progressing well for you. Take care.

Some people always have it and some of us get it after our first. Mine wasn't there with 1st child but with subsequent pregnancies and has gotten worse over time. It sucks because it presses on my bladder and makes my urethra malfunction so I have trouble peeing in the first trimester (fun fun). What happens is that as baby(ies) grow the uterus comes up and flips into position and the baby has enough room to grow. VERY rarely the uterus doesn't flip up and this can be dangerous, but it hardly ever goes that way.

I do think it's partly genetic because my mom and one of my sisters has it too.

[atomic sagebrush]

I hear you loud and clear Atomic. Thanks soooo much Hun. I really do appreciate all your replies and advice. I just have two more questions - (1) I have only been taking 100mg ubiquinol per day - is that enough? Or should I be taking at least 400mg daily? Also, how am I supposed to wean off of these when I get a BFP if they come in capsule form? (2) would we have a better chance of getting a girl if we BD every 3-4 days as opposed to just the one shot at pos OPK? Thanks so much once again. I am trying to pluck up the courage to give it a go this next cycle coming up and AF arrives in a couple of days, so I guess I'm getting a bit jittery.

I used to only use 100 but so many reproductive endocrinolosgists were recommending
200-600 range that I have recently increased it. I cannot say if it's better or worse, just going off their recommendations. You just gradually space doses furhter and further out till down to 1 per week and then safe to drop.

I don't know what method would get you better results. Two different sets of people (very fertile people, with regular cycles get pregnant with one attempt, whereas less fertile people who have been swaying a long time and/or have irregular cycles are doing e4d) are using those methods and they are not able to be compared.