TTC a Girl Sway Attempt
Gender Result: Girl
DW Age: 34
DH Age: 32
Current Children's Gender(s) Boy (unplanned with special needs), girl (successful casual sway)
Number of Months TTC 6-9
Did you purchase and follow a GD Personalized Plan? No
DIET
Did you follow a diet plan? Yes
If yes to diet, which one did you most follow?
Comments regarding DW's diet changes- -
If diet was used, length of time before attempt? First up, even though I was TTC for 8 months, that was only 4 cycles and we conceived on cycles 1, 3 and 4.
I was on the diet for about 6 weeks, felt like I was starving and hadn't ovulated so gave up, ovulated 2 weeks later, conceived, and miscarried (so was off the diet for about 7 weeks). Then was back on for about 8 weeks, conceived again and was insanely hungry from 3DPO so diet again went out the window, I ate so much chocolate and peanut butter and gained 2kg over the next month until I miscarried at 6.5 weeks. Immediately went back on the diet but conceived again only 3 weeks later. So I was on the LE diet for either 8 months or 3 weeks? :p
Did you skip breakfast regularly? No
Did DH change his diet with you? No
Comments regarding DH's diet- -
DId you consume alcohol?
DId you try to limit caffeine? No, I drink caffeine regularly
Any Diet Details? Already lifelong vegetarian, don't drink milk but do eat cheese/chocolate/butter.
I'd have coffee at ~8am (just instant with sweetener and dash of almond milk)
Breakfast at 10am, usually a cinnamon & raisin bagel with butter. Too hungry to skip breakfast altogether.
Light lunch at around 1pm, snack foods and coffee
Wine while cooking dinner at ~5pm
Normal, pretty big dinner by 6pm
Low cat hot chocolate at around 9pm.
Excluding the hot choc at night and coffee in the morning, I'd otherwise have a 14-16 hour fast between meals. The drinks were <50 cal so hopefully didn't undermine the fasting too much.
Totals were around 1800 cal / 60g fat / 50g protein, so in the upper end, but I was still breastfeeding the toddler a couple of times a day.
Any Diet Comments/Additional Info? -
WEIGHT AND EXERCISE
What did you weigh/BMI do leading up to O? 52kg/18.7 BMI
I started at 54kg in April, started the diet and went down to 50kg. Went back up to 54kg during pregnancy#1, then back down to 51kg after. Then back up to 54kg during pregnancy#2, then back down to 52kg before pregnancy#3.
Any Weight/Exercise related additional info/comments? Exercise was just walking (while pushing the pram+toddler) for at least an hour a day, at least 5-6 days/week. But I try to do that anyway regardless of TTC or pregnancy status, and was doing so all year (apart from 2 weeks in September when we were in covid isolation!)
My daughter was conceived when my BMI was only 17.5 so I wasn't concerned about weight being too low.
THINGS in VG and CONCEPTION DATE(CD) INFO
pH Before Starting a Sway Program, if known -
Any VG potions used?
CM pH at attempt -
DH pH -
How many BD attempts did you make for the BFP cycle? 1, sort of 2 but one probably didn't count
BD Dates according to Ovulation- 4 Days Before O
- 2 Days Before O
Any additional comments? The O-4 attempt was just sex for fun, I really didn't expect to get a +OPK 2 days later! So we had a proper attempt then. Ovulation confirmed by OPK+BBT.
THE DEED INFO
DH Info about Swimmers
BD Position -
Did you Jump and Dump? -
Any relevant attempt details? Didn't really J&D, just got up to pee after a few minutes like usual.
SUPPLEMENTS USED
DW Supplements
DH Supplements -
Any additional supplement info? I took Methylfolate 500mg daily and Folic acid + iodine every other day.
Did you do anything with Ions? -
Moon Phase during conception? -
Did you use any Old Wives Tales? No. Just prayed to Mother Earth and the Moon ;)
Things that make me feel great about my sway: Continual exercise all through 2020 was pretty good, and breastfeeding even if a little, wine & coffee.
Things that make me nervous about my sway: I sucked at the diet! Was on and off, really struggled to get my calories and fat within limits in particular. I usually eat high fat/low carb lol.With long, irregular cycles it was hard to get the timing right, especially when ovulation symptoms don't perfectly sync with OPKs.
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