First Boy Sway for end of October
Hi there
Just a post to introduce myself and maybe get some opinions on my planned sway. I have been lurking for a good year and we are finally planning to start TTC from October! This will be my first time TTC but my logic is to try and sway for my DG first (with a 'mellow yellow' type approach) and if successful I can move to a do nothing approach for subsequent pregnancies. I really don't want to stress myself out and I figure it isn't the end of the world if we don't end up conceiving a boy, we are happy to have a lovely bundle of either gender :).
I think I am already inadvertently swaying boy a little just out of normal habit and general circumstances but we will see. I am starting my diet from now and my first aimed o date will be about 30/10 (my cycles are very regular, at about 33days with o on CD-18).
Background: Early 30s, have been off BC for a good two years (and never going back!), exercise cardio every day (cycling, jogging, walking), have very low cholesterol (below normal range), very high iron levels (may be iron overload but unconfirmed), high vitamin D levels. BMI of 19, relatively low BP. Cycles are very regular, with very light AF. I am prone to hormonal acne and get cyclical migraines but don't get much else in the way of hormonal related symptoms.
DIET
More or less a HE diet
Will be eating every two hours (already snack a lot but will be diligently snacking alot! :))
Already eat most of these things but will be adding a few new ones
Typical day:
Breakfast: Weetbix, Wheatgerm, toast(on weekend with PB and vegemite)
Snacks: Ryvitas, Peanut Butter, Vegemite, Miso Soup, Salted Nuts
Fruit: Banana, Avocado(new), Pears
Lunch: Greens (Spinach, Kale, Lettuce), Tuna in oil/Bacon/Cheese
Drinks: V8(new), Milo, Milk (full cream/almond), Gelatine(already drinking for other reasons), Horlicks (nighttime), loads of water,
Teeccino (drinking instead of coffee - also just read recently that it has lots of potassium and raises pH TEECCINO - Caffeine Free Herbal Coffee Australia Sydney Melbourne Brisbane Perth Adelaide Gold Coast Canberra Tasmania Darwin Cairns)
Dinner: Could be anything with meat/eggs and rice/pasta/noodles and whatever vegetables
SUPPLEMENTS
Folate and iodine, Vit C(new), DIM (not sure that this will help sway but have been taking to prevent bad cystic acne which started after I stopped BC), Zinc (have been taking for other health reasons)
TIMING
Not really a fan of the timing thing - I looked into this extensively and it seems like there is so much conflicting evidence about it. So we are just going to do BD from early October every 4 days - I'm intending this to be a 'more likely to actually get pregnant' strategy rather than anything else.
EXERCISE
I have been backing off on the cardio a bit and have already started slowly on the weight lifting whic I have been enjoying a lot.
Once I have actually made an attempt I will put in some more detail of what I actually did and hopefully be able to update with some results!! Any opinions/comments while I am still in the early stages would be greatly appreciated :)
