I noticed there are a lot of ladies on the board here who will start TTC next month (myself being one of them!). Who else is joining me?!?! I'm so excited I can't stand it! This will be our first :bigsmile:
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I noticed there are a lot of ladies on the board here who will start TTC next month (myself being one of them!). Who else is joining me?!?! I'm so excited I can't stand it! This will be our first :bigsmile:
Hi I was meant to be Swaying in June but now I'm waiting a few months longer. Just wanting to wish you luck
Hi, Holly! I was going to start in May but it looks like I won't ovulate until June 1st-ish so I would love to join you! My sway changes about every 5 min and I think in the end, we'll just do what feels right for us. I am so excited for you and all the other Mamas-to-be who will be conceiving for the very 1st time. It's such a wonderful and surreal experience! Get ready to start crying at diaper commercials and little girls with their Mamas in stores and such. Those hormones go crazy when you're preggers!
I'm wishing you lots of luck on your sway and sending you quick BFP vibes so you'll get her on your 1st try! :luck::cheer::luck:
Pink dust to you too, Uma! I expect to O around the 23rd of next month (am Oing now, so hard to be patient until then!). We wanted to wait until June to start trying because I would love a spring or summer baby. Since this is my first, I'm pretty much doing the diet and maybe some timing, though not messing around with timing too much since the diet is so hard to be on. I'm heading to the OBGYN this afternoon since I've experienced some spotting after DTD, so hopefully it's nothing serious!Quote:
Originally Posted by UmaJain
Oh, count me in too. I should be Oing any time now and hoping to do one attempt next month, and going to try a bit harder in July.
Good luck girls!
I am sort of in this club... I will DTD at the end of the month but won't O until July 1! I was so tempted to try this month but I just got off antibiotics for a ruptured ear drum and that drug sways boy. I still have one more O in June that I have hold off on.
My MIL told me not to have another winter baby... DS1 was born in March and it snowed for 3 days before he was born, she almost crashed on the highway. DS2 it snowed 1wk before he was born and for several days after. I don't want a Jan baby because it is to close to Christmas and kids born around that time tend to get less focus on their birthday. I figured since I have a Feb and Mar baby that I needed a Apr baby... I have their birth stones around my neck with a necklace my hubby gave me and I need a diamond (I don't like the stones for Jan, May, and July to dark).
If I don't get preg in July (2 o's) then I will go for Sept... My hubbies family (and my boys) has birthdays in... 2 FEB, 1 MAR, 2 APR, 2 MAY, and 1 OCT. My family and myself... 1 JAN, 1 FEB, 1 MAR, 1 MAY, 1 JUN, 2 JUL, 1 AUG, 2 SEP, 1 OCT, AND 2 DEC.
I am planning my sway for the birth months... I had both my boys a week after their due dates and the Dr thinks it is because I was very relaxed... so just maybe #3 will be born after or close to the due date!
Count me in!!!!! I just hope everything goes as planned with my IUD removal...I will be due to O around June 23 as well...I am so excited!!!!Got my plan and everything I need to complete it....Saying lots of prayers for a sweet healthy baby girl!!! Pink dust to everyone!!!!! Hope we all get BFP's together!!!
Count me in! I have 2 boys, 2 and 4 years, and would love to add a little lady to our brood! I am taking supplements and vitex. DH is taking liquorice root. I'm doing ok on the diet, although I'm not being too strict on myself. I've finally managed to skip breakfast for the last 2 days. I'm planning freq bd with a cut off, I'm going to time it by opk, when I get a pos I'm going to dtd the day after then stop! I've also got rephresh and silk ready for the attempt!!!! That's about it, really excited about swaying with everybody and supporting each other. Good luck to all! :cheerteam:
I'm in!! I hope!!! I have three boys 6,4, and 2. They literally ASK me for a little sister...no pressure right???? Here we go ladies best of luck to everyone!!!
Best of luck everyone!! UmaJain I to wanted to try this month but as it turns out am expecting to ovulate on June 1 also!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by UmaJain
Hi ladybug! Looks like we are O buddies next month, lol. What is your plan on timing? Because the diet has been such a challenge, I'm thinking about BD every other day up until the day before O...I wonder if that's too risky??? Are you doing the diet as well?Quote:
Originally Posted by ladybug
Wow, so great to see so many of you joining me next month! Fingers crossed for lots of BFPs in June/July and tons of PINK dust as well!!! Is there a way we can get this thread stickied??? Atomic??
Hi ladies - count me in! I have three boys - 5 year old twins and a 22 month old. I swayed very very gently for my youngest, but obviously it didn't work. I'll be ovulating sometime near the end of June, but I still BF my 22 month old once a day, so my cycle isn't completely regular yet. As a result of that and the fact that I completely messed up my timing last time for O+12, I'm probably going to ignore timing (except maybe avoid BD on O-day since that's when all of my boys were conceived) and just focus on diet.
I'm doing a mix of the low everything diet and the IG one - basically, I follow the low everything one all day, then about 2-3 times a week have a chicken recipe from the IG girl cookbook (I haven't been doing so well with the vegetarian thing every day). On those days my protein is a little higher than the 40 g max (more like 60 g once I include milk and yogurt), but the other days I keep well below it.
I'm looking forward to getting to know all of you. I'm still quite close with a lot of the IG ladies I swayed with last time around - there's nothing that will create a tight bond quite like suffering through a sway together! :)
Hi ladies - I'm not officially swaying yet (DH wants no more kids!) but I've been following the diet and taking supplements anyway, as our previous 3 children (twin boys, nearly 5 and a baby boy 8 months) were all conceived when we weren't really trying. I've been tracking my cycles for the past few months and getting a bit better at recognizing the ovulation signs though feel more practice is needed...
As for the diet, since I'm a "secret swayer", I try to be really good during the day - no breakfast, peppermint tea, no salt matzoh crackers with fat free cottage cheese or sugarless strawberry jam and yogurt as lunchtime meal and for suppers trying to avoid the big no-no's - tomatoes/red, red meat, salt..while keeping my protein portions on the smaller side.. so far husband hasn't noticed or at least hasn't commented. He thinks I gave up bacon, burgers, etc. because I'm trying to nudge off the last 5 pounds of the baby weight. good luck to everyone -
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Originally Posted by hollyberry7
Hey Hollyberry...we are cycle buddies!!!! I plan to use abstinence until I get a positive on my OPK, looking at a 1 to 2 day cut off....I did freq bd with both boys so I will try that with my first attempt....I am doing the diet....Low everything that is...I am losing weight...thats what matters, i hope anyway....I have my plan in place and I will do what feels right..I am a lazy swayer...I kinda hope that approach will get me a girl cause I was so uptight the other 2 times i was ttc....Do you have a plan yet?
YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY!!! It's coming very quickly! That would be awesome if we both got BFPs this first try! Sending you (and EVERYONE!) lots of PINK DUST...:luck: :cheer: :luck:Quote:
Originally Posted by Caty
How cute is this group??? Oh I hope we all get pink BFP's so soon our heads are spinng and we can go back to eating cheeseburgers and mac and cheese (just a couple of choices that will be on the menu for me when that stick turns!!!) much love to you all and stay strong!!!
I was so good with the diet this week, and I was bad tonight. I was at a wedding shower for a friend at a restaurant, and I ended up getting pizza and chocolate gelato for dessert. At least I didn't order the huge gourmet burger and handcut fries I really, really wanted. The pizza was a bit salty because it had pesto sauce on it instead of tomato, but there was only bocconcini cheese on it, which has hardly any sodium. It wasn't the worst thing on the menu I could have ordered, but it also wasn't the best. I have no excuse for the chocolate gelato, but I've gotta say it was sooooo yummy after 2 weeks of no chocolate. I'm amazed my stomach could hold all that food after 2 weeks of eating hardly anything. I hope this doesn't blow my sway.
Don't worry about it mocha girl! Atomic said in another post, even when times are bad occasionally people had a good day and I think that's a good point. I'm not going to stop myself from going out for 6 or more weeks!!!! Don't feel guilty about the occasional bad day, x
Thanks, Swish. I'm not too concerned, except for the fact that I fear there will be more nights like this in the weeks to come. My mother is coming to visit this week and my in-laws are coming in a few weeks. I'm sure there will be more dinners out and it's also going to be hard to eat strictly on the diet at home when they're here since I don't want anyone to know about the swaying. My mother and I are very close, so I may tell her about my diet, but there's no way I can tell my in-laws. They are going to be staying with us for a whole week! I thought maybe I can eat my bland dinner while cooking everyone else's dinner, then just pick at whatever I've made for everyone at the actual meal. It's going to be tricky.
I know what you mean, I'm not telling anyone except my husband, mostly because I don't want them to worry about me being disappointed if I don't get a dd. I eat out with friends and have a family meal every Sunday, I'm trying to think of good excuses, like I'm trying to avoid x because of my eczema!!! It's so hard and extra hard when you'd normally tell those people everything
Sounds like my problem. At first, I didn't even tell my DH because he doesn't believe in swaying and thinks I'm crazy. Now that he knows it's a little easier. I'm not strictly doing the low everything diet because I still want to eat some meals with my kids and I want them to eat healthier stuff than pasta every night. Luckily, they seem to enjoy some of the chicken recipes from the IG girl cookbook. Some of my friends know about the diet (not all the details - just that I'm trying to avoid salt and red meat), mainly because I needed to have someone to complain to. I'm debating telling my Mom because she's my best friend - but I know she'd worry about how unhealthy the diet is and also would worry I'm setting myself up for disappointment. All of my loved ones knew how upset I was when I found out ds3 was a boy, and I know they don't want to see me hurt like that again. I keep reminding them that that little guy is now the light of my life, so no matter what happens I know my life will be richer with another baby.
Hi girls count me in this group too. I am starting trying in June. I have been on the girl diet now for just under seven weeks I have had the odd bad day but apart from that it's been killing me LOL. I have lost lots of weight (too much I look horrible lol). I was going to start when AF arrived but have put it off another four weeks as I was on antibiotics the beginning of the month for a gum infection so do not want to muck up all the good work the diet has done.
DH has been fantastic and is taking his Licorice root AF-O and taking his sups. Laying off the coffee etc. He has been my rock through all this.
I will be due to ovulate around the 20th June I think but things are all crazy with my cycles so I will be on clomid and may ovulate later than expected.
Mocha- first of all I believe what At.Sag. says about NOT STRESSING...I am trying very hard to believe that I am just making the environment as friendly for a girl as possible just in case God thinks it would work for us that way I really remind myself to be kind to myself and to stay relaxed...also I do allow myself the occasional chocolate ice cream because it is acidic and I am still losing weight....i honestly think just because we are trying at all it has to make somewhat of a difference...and i also think because we believe it will happen it just might! :) (of curse yesterday I read how At. s. said that if you are a defeatest you lower your testosterone so I don' t know if I should use positive thinking or be like Eyore??? Best wishes to you and to all I know how hard the diet is...I'm halfway tomorrow!!! WHEW!!!
Thanks, Polish Princess. I'm not letting myself get too stressed (I'm usually a very optimistic person), but last time I swayed I relaxed my sway too much and ended up with a (wonderful) boy! I'm definitely not following the diet 100% - I'm sort of combining the low everything diet with the ig one (allowing myself some chicken), then trying not to stress too much when I cheat. I hope that when I average my diet out over 6 weeks all the good days I had will mean the bad days won't count for as much. I am definitely losing weight, so that should help the sway regardless.
I aggree with everything you are saying...I saw you asked At. Sag. about the choc. icecream...I am interested to see what she says. Wouldn't it just be fabulous if we could both get our little girls after our three fantastic sons? I keep thinking how I would never have wished my family to have this composition and now I can't think of a better make up!!! OH praying praying praying!!!
I couldn't agree more. I have 3 older brothers, and it was a great way to grow up!
Sounds like a great plan! Since this is our first baby, I'm just doing the diet and timing this time around. I'm trying to do the low everything diet with occassional chicken/fish here and there. The weekends are the hardest times not to cheat as we live close to family and tend to have a lot of get-togethers and such, especially in the spring/summer. What kind of things are you eating? All in all, I've lost two lbs from the diet alone and decided not to do the intense cardio...totally taking the lazy way out! I'm still debating about the timing issue...what kind of OPKs do you use? Maybe I'll try what you're doing - once you get a positive on your OPK, are you going to BD once?Quote:
Originally Posted by ladybug
Hey girls, how are you all doing? Couple of questions for you. Anyone taking vitex? If so, how much are you taking? Also how much folic acid are you taking, I'm only taking 400 because that is amount in pregnacare which is what I took with my first two. Do you think that's enough? Thanks
Hi, Swish. I've been taking Vitex for about 5 wks now. I take one capsule 3x a day (400 mg each capsule). Wish I'd been taking it longer but didn't know about it...Hoping it helps! I'm not sure about the amount of folic acid...I'm taking prenatals which contain it (decided not to give them up for my sway). Sending you TONS OF PINK DUST!
Thanks umajain, I'm only taking one tablet so maybe I'll up that
I know!!!!! I have manged to get DH to wait one more month to start TTC. I only stumbled across this website a few weeks ago and a lot of this is new to me and am stressing a little over the whole PH thing and using aci-jel etc etc so i want to have a month to try these things out before our first attempt then i can decide whether to use the aci-jel or rephressh or to douche :think: or do nothing. So we will try now at the end of june once I've made my mind up there is a lot to consider!! :worry:Quote:
Originally Posted by UmaJain
Best of luck to you I hope all goes well. It's getting really close now :fx:
Yeah...I was kind of easing into it my first week or so but now I'm taking what the bottle said. GL to you!
Well, if I don't get a BFP from this first attempt, maybe we'll be Oing around the same time again! I'm still trying to firm things up and still not sure. I have Aci-jel, RepHresh and Sylk in my arsenal. I'm kind of wishing I had Replens since that keeps working to maintain a low pH but since I've already spent so much $$$, I think I'll go the Aci-jel + Sylk route and see what shakes out. I'm starting to feel pretty apathetic about the whole thing...I was really, REALLY wanting to execute things "perfectly" but now I'm just kind of...ehhhh...whatever lol. I think all that Peppermint tea and the diet is doing it's job (FX!). I think taking another round to regroup and destress is an excellent idea and should work well for you! GL, Mama!Quote:
Originally Posted by Caty
I'm not a June swayer but am hoping for July so am following you all with fingers (and legs!) crossed! Good luck to you all x
UmaJain - I also have aci-jel, rephresh and sylk but still don't know which combination I'll use. Rephresh is the one which keeps on working though so you already have the right one!!
Kelly
DOH! Meant to type Replens...sorry for the mix-up. Been having a rough time today...Had to put our 16 yr old dog to sleep last night, DS#2 has a bad ear infection and DS#1 is having some potty training issues & going #2 in the wrong places... Just another day in the life of a Mama, I guess...lol. GL to you in July, Kelly!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by zanacal
Oh my, sounds like a really crappy day. Sorry about your dog, it breaks your heart doesn't it x
Hi girls, I haven't been around because I've been moving. I've been off the diet, I guess, and mostly eating not so good. I'm going to start the full diet again with AF next/this week and move my attempt to July. But I will be rooting for you all in june. Hope to see lots of bfps! And hopefully lots of pink! Good luck to all.
Yeah...very, very sad and sudden. DH took the afternoon off since he was just gutted (was his pup from waaaaay before we met).Quote:
Originally Posted by zanacal
Are you ladies ready for the big O? I'm excited to see what happens with all of us and see how many BFPs shake out....Sending you all lots of BABY DUST in advance!
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