Which do you think is harder?

Swaying BOY or swaying GIRL?

Obviously it is challenging for all of us swaying, and maybe it is easier for some than others. We all have to change our diets, take supps, monitor our cycles, so would you think it is harder to get a boy if you already have girls or vice versa?

I don't know if it's harder one way or the other, but it seems it's harder for ME to get girls.. :bigsmile:

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Well given that I used to thrive on dieting lol the boy diet was a killer for me :P

I'm going to say swaying Boy is harder for me anyways since I already have two girls. When I had my girls I knew nothing about swaying so I wasn't "dieting" I was just eating what I liked when I liked. I guess I liked the LE type diet

This is a tough question to answer.

I think that in one way, it's harder to sway pink because it's all about hitting this tiny window where you're less fertile but not infertile. Whereas with blue, you're just trying to improve fertility and it's kinda a one way street - you can't GET too fertile.

At the same time, it's DEFINITELY harder to sway blue because there may be things that are just unchangeable that are working against you...things you or DH were maybe born with or happened in childhood or that you have in your environment that you cannot control.

It's also harder to sway blue because i think there's worse info out there for blue swayers than there is pink. Honestly, it's almost a miracle to me that people get pg with boys at all ever, doing some of the stuff the traditional sway recommends.

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Originally Posted by atomic sagebrush

This is a tough question to answer.

I think that in one way, it's harder to sway pink because it's all about hitting this tiny window where you're less fertile but not infertile. Whereas with blue, you're just trying to improve fertility and it's kinda a one way street - you can't GET too fertile.

At the same time, it's DEFINITELY harder to sway blue because there may be things that are just unchangeable that are working against you...things you or DH were maybe born with or happened in childhood or that you have in your environment that you cannot control.

It's also harder to sway blue because i think there's worse info out there for blue swayers than there is pink. Honestly, it's almost a miracle to me that people get pg with boys at all ever, doing some of the stuff the traditional sway recommends.

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This is what I was thinking too ... it seems much of modern life (environmental, lifestyle, etc) really does more to increase the odds of pink, in ways that are sometimes inescapable or at least very difficult to change. Most of us are so busy that we get less sleep, it's hard to make a hearty balanced nutritious meal, we're exposed to innumerable toxins, women are encouraged to be really thin, etc. All of that leans pink.

I would think it might be more difficult to get pregnant with a pink as opposed to a blue sway, given the recommended timing issues, so perhaps blue swayers get pregnant faster ... but I think as far as the odds of success with getting the desired gender it might be easier to get a girl from a "boy mom" than it is to get a boy from a "girl mom."

That said, nature does favor boys 51/49 in the live birth rate, so there is that built-in bias that boy moms have to overcome. I guess I think of it almost like boy moms have a downhill run (which if you've ever run down a steep hill, it isn't easy at all) but girl moms have to slog up that steep hill ... and that's just a bit harder, IMO.

Either way I suppose wherever you're coming from, boy or girl mom, your particular sway is probably hard for you since it's a lifestyle change from your "natural" leanings.

I think swaying girl is harder with the dieting and trying to get pregnant while you are trying to decrease fertility.....but swaying boy is definitely harder on the body in the long run since you can get FAT!!!!

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Originally Posted by begonia

This is what I was thinking too ... it seems much of modern life (environmental, lifestyle, etc) really does more to increase the odds of pink, in ways that are sometimes inescapable or at least very difficult to change. Most of us are so busy that we get less sleep, it's hard to make a hearty balanced nutritious meal, we're exposed to innumerable toxins, women are encouraged to be really thin, etc. All of that leans pink.

I would think it might be more difficult to get pregnant with a pink as opposed to a blue sway, given the recommended timing issues, so perhaps blue swayers get pregnant faster ... but I think as far as the odds of success with getting the desired gender it might be easier to get a girl from a "boy mom" than it is to get a boy from a "girl mom."

That said, nature does favor boys 51/49 in the live birth rate, so there is that built-in bias that boy moms have to overcome. I guess I think of it almost like boy moms have a downhill run (which if you've ever run down a steep hill, it isn't easy at all) but girl moms have to slog up that steep hill ... and that's just a bit harder, IMO.

Either way I suppose wherever you're coming from, boy or girl mom, your particular sway is probably hard for you since it's a lifestyle change from your "natural" leanings.

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:agree: totally Begonia. If your or DH's body has been "set pink" somewhere along the way (by environmental toxins or being really depleted for a long time) I think it may take a LOT to overcome it. That's why I have always thought that while swaying pink may FEEL harder, swaying blue actually IS harder.

And I forgot to mention this above but there is a small subset of women who are carriers for rare genetic disorders that actually may make it half as likely that they can conceive a healthy baby boy - these women in effect have twice the odds at healthy baby girls as they do healthy baby boys.

The crazy thing and I believe the next "mountain I need to climb" is to address why many blue swayers are taking so long to get pg. Because my gut tells me that a)blue swayers as a general rule, should get pregnant sooner than pink swayers and b)we should be having better odds of success with blue sways than with pink. So far neither of these things is true, which is shocking to me.

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Originally Posted by begonia

This is what I was thinking too ... it seems much of modern life (environmental, lifestyle, etc) really does more to increase the odds of pink, in ways that are sometimes inescapable or at least very difficult to change. Most of us are so busy that we get less sleep, it's hard to make a hearty balanced nutritious meal, we're exposed to innumerable toxins, women are encouraged to be really thin, etc. All of that leans pink.

I would think it might be more difficult to get pregnant with a pink as opposed to a blue sway, given the recommended timing issues, so perhaps blue swayers get pregnant faster ... but I think as far as the odds of success with getting the desired gender it might be easier to get a girl from a "boy mom" than it is to get a boy from a "girl mom."

That said, nature does favor boys 51/49 in the live birth rate, so there is that built-in bias that boy moms have to overcome. I guess I think of it almost like boy moms have a downhill run (which if you've ever run down a steep hill, it isn't easy at all) but girl moms have to slog up that steep hill ... and that's just a bit harder, IMO.

Either way I suppose wherever you're coming from, boy or girl mom, your particular sway is probably hard for you since it's a lifestyle change from your "natural" leanings.

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:agree: totally Begonia. If your or DH's body has been "set pink" somewhere along the way (by environmental toxins or being really depleted for a long time) I think it may take a LOT to overcome it. That's why I have always thought that while swaying pink may FEEL harder, swaying blue actually IS harder.

And I forgot to mention this above but there is a small subset of women who are carriers for rare genetic disorders that actually may make it half as likely that they can conceive a healthy baby boy - these women in effect have twice the odds at healthy baby girls as they do healthy baby boys.

The crazy thing and I believe the next "mountain I need to climb" is to address why many blue swayers are taking so long to get pg. Because my gut tells me that a)blue swayers as a general rule, should get pregnant sooner than pink swayers and b)we should be having better odds of success with blue sways than with pink. So far neither of these things is true, which is shocking to me.