How we got our boys!

I swayed for my boys without even realising! I was keen to get pg ASAP so took all the supplements to aid fertility - pregnacare conception which contains L-Arginine, epo and flax seed oil for ewcm, ate a diet high in protein, nutrients, red meat, always ate fortified cereal for breakfast, always snacking, always preferred full fat, full sugar rather than low cal versions - I have quite a high metabolism so I'm not fat amazingly!! Always preferred salty foods too. I had DH on pregnacare conception for men, along with omega 3,6,and 9 oil capsules. Used Preseed to DTD. I have a short LP (9 days) so took supplements to try and help with this - vitex Angus castus, dong quai, b-100 complex, and raspberry leaf tea (which all helped to increase my LP) So it's really not a surprise I got my boys! I only realised that everything it was doing swayed boy since I've been looking into swaying girl for number 3.

I have three boys and for me what did it was having sex right when I ovulated.

I was totally obsessed with TTC for our first- I was also already on supplements because I had wonky long cycles and thought it would take a long time to get pregnant. I charted, took maca root, also vitex (but stopped both in the middle of the cycle as they changed my cycles for the worse).

I ate often and lots of meat, cheese, but also super unhealthy stuff like chips, bacon,etc anything I was hungry for really. I'm naturally thin with a high metabolism but I also am active and love to do weight training as I just think it is the quickest and most efficient way to stay nice and toned. We BD while TTC pretty much every other day and always on O as I can tell very easily when it is happening.

Both boys happened the first month.

First boy was conceived a month after my honeymoon where I pigged out and continued to pig out when I got home. Ate whatever I wanted. Took Fertilaid, Mucinex, lots of BD around O. With my second son DH and I was taking Fertilaid again, I recall I was eating a lot of burritos with salsa around that time. Like I would eat half the jar in one sitting, lol. I was vitamin D deficient so I was taking massive doses of vitamin D. Still pigging out and still had 10 pounds to lose from my first son. I didn't sway for either, in fact I was about to look into a girl sway for my second but we conceived by accident (would not trade either boy for the world, they are my everything). Now looking back it seemed like I was doing classic boy sways without even knowing.

i have 2 boys,cant really remember how i ate with my first son as it was 12 years ago,lol. i know i always had breakfast,and a lot of ready meals,take aways,drank loads as i was only just 18 and out every weekend (before i got pregnant of course)
my my second son i think it was pretty much the same,its only these past few maybe 6 years that i have started cooking properly.Again i always had breakfast.Pretty sure it was the ready meals/frozen food that gave me my boys as there packed with salt.
oh also i took 2 hour dance classes twice a week,so not exercising when we do our sway for a girl this time.

I was eating everything I wished at any time of the day. Lots of pizza, mcdonalds, sweets(chocolate). No vegetables and fruits(I never liked them). Didnt excersise at all! Hated gym! Lots of snaks!
Was sleeping a lot every day. I was in a constantly holiday :)
Concieved him in beginning of May.
Got pregnant most probably with 4-5 days before O in (women on top position) and orgasm same time with my hubby.

I hope you all get what you dream.
And dont forget....You need to be very patient with boys! :-)
Good luck!

Hi all, I'm a mom of 4 boys - 2 from my previous marriage, and 2 from my current. I can't remember much about my 1st 2 except that I was a sahm, eating whatever, whenever I wanted. I smoked. Didn't drink though. Lots of eggs and dishes with ground beef - weights all the time! Loved working out hard like that. With Ds 2 I was actually my lowest conception weight (which is the typical pink sway advice), but I think I had high levels of testosterone.
Ds 3&4 I was a non smoking, but wine drinking, hard working, highly stressed work environment, had lost 2 babies right after we got married so conception was stressful. I ate VERY healthy - very balanced, maybe a little high in fat, every 2 hrs and again with Ds 4, I had lost a lot of weight (30 pounds) but it was from high intensity interval training - lots of strength and bursts of cardio, for a compact period, again, probably so much testosterone. I also drank a ton of red wine with ds3&4.
As far as timing goes, I tried to away pink shettles style but I had ov early. So I dtd on pos opk (one attempt - total girl sway).
I'm a bit of a mix match story with probably nothing conclusive to share EXCEPT maybe my diet.
I hope you get your boys. Would LOVE to trade off some boy dust for some girl dust ;p


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I was taking evening primrose. I hadn't had dairy in about a year was eating tons of meat and barbeque lots of salt seasoning bscon.and banana

Not sure if I have posted in here before but with ds1 and ds2 I dtd on smiley opk and day after whilst also using preseed. Ds3 conceived exactly on ov and most likely stressed to the hilt. Diet wise I actually think my diet has always been more girl friendly with the exception of less coffee and diet soda which I have only recently started enjoying. My ht journeys produced more female than male embryos overall which has given me the confidence that we can produce a female!

Hi All!
I never even knew of gender swaying with my boys so this is what I naturally did:

With both my boys I ate cereal every day for breakfast. I actually ate it for snacks too. Lots of cereal- I love it! Cheerios mostly, and sometimes Lucky Charms :)
I ate a lot of avocados (at least 1/2 avocado/day). Lots of various fruits and veggies. Dried salted seaweed (It's good! I swear)
Tons of salmon, halibut, mahi mahi, and poultry.
Protein shakes (whey Whole Foods brand) with bananas and peanut butter.
Eggs, fat-free milk, yogurt, and ice cream as a treat.
Processed boxed rice mixes, mac and cheese, white cheddar shells.
Bread-most of it white/processed. With my 2nd little guy I was eating healthier whole grain breads/pasta/etc.
Tons of sushi-this should really be it's own food group :)
I took a multi-vitamin (Don't remember the brand), and cod liver oil (Nordic Naturals).

I was at the gym all the time before my first doing cardio, classes, and strength training. With my 2nd I worked out but not as much. I was about 5lbs heavier when I got pregnant with him. I took a walk every night after dinner.

Boy #1 was born in Seattle Washington during the fall. We were newlyweds and had sex almost every day. I have no idea when I ovulated.
Boy#2 was born in Fort Worth Texas during the summer. I ovulated day 17, and we had had sex day 14,15,and 17.

Good luck to all you boy-swayers. Sending my blue dust!

I never planned any of my boys...with my first son I was pretty skinny when he was conceived...I lived on cereal and 2% milk...I hated skipping breakfast and had three meals a day plus snacks. My first two boys are 17 months apart so again no planning with ds 2.I was under a bit more stress when I conceived my second son. Still same eating patterns. With my third I had just found the ig site and was in the beginning stages of planning ttc a girl when I became pregnant with him...we had just moved back to Cali so months before his conception I was in the gym at least 5 days a week doing mainly weights and taking supplements for weight loss along with whey protein and some creatine. My diet changed to include more veggies and fish and chicken.

Good luck to you ladies and ALL of my blue dust to you!!

Just was looking at my old charts and I had noted the supps I was taking that swayed for a boy for DS2 and I didn't even know it. Was just trying to increase fertility. Was just starting to research a girl sway and conceived by accident. I hate saying "accident" because he is one of the best things that has ever happened to us! :)

Prenatal, vitamin D (large dosage), Fetilaid, DIM, green tea, B-6 and EPO.

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I have two boys and now see that I had a pretty typical boy friendly lifestyle. Cereal for breakfast. Three balanced meals a day plus snacks in between. Lots of fruit, veg, meat and I LOVE carbs. I exercised moderately and always did weights. First son was conceived during a holiday where we DTD daily and son no2 was conceived soon after my period Finished and we only DTD once. Both times I had been off the contraceptive pill for many months and my PCOS acne was bad (high testosterone) I wish I had of found this site long ago. Here's hoping for a pink no.3 :DD:

I agree I wish there was a better word we could use than "sway failed" and "opposite" and "accident" becasue all of our "not quite successful sways" LOL are really great kids and it feels sucky to use negative terminology.

I have always been a grazer. I would eat breakfast, 2 hours later have a snack, 2 hours later have lunch, then another snack, then dinner, and probably a snack before bed! My biggest downfall has always been chips. I would eat a snack sized bag of chips a day.. sometimes even a full sized bag. Doritos or potato chips.

I also was eating nuts or meat at all 3 meals, and sometimes nuts as a snack. (Protein heavy diet)- Which is actually funny to me because I was vegetarian before meeting my husband, and he turned me into a meat eater. Now here I am on the LE diet, avoiding meat for a pink sway.

Also I was not working out, or losing weight before getting pregnant with any of them. In fact right before getting pregnant with my 3rd son, I actually put on a couple of pounds. And they were all (TMI) conceived in missionary position

Hope that helps! Good luck! I hope you all get your blue bundles!

so many of us boy moms "eat like hobbits" - breakfast, second breakfast, elevensies, lunch, tea, dinner, and supper and many of us also tack on bedtime and even midnight snack. :)

I've never swayed for my boys but I have three and knowing what I do now I can see why I have boys. I always have a high meat high protein diet, I'm huge into weight lifting and fitness in general, I've Always had ewcm, low dairy high caffeine diet soda ( I would drink at least six diet mt dew a day plus coffee) I would take a fitness multi vitamin plus protein powder. We dtd often the whole month and I always just went to bed after. I hoped for a girl last time but didn't know about swaying I wish I would have tried!

I don't think caffeine sways blue at all and very likely sways pink. It's just that your body was able to get boys despite that because you had so much more going on.

I have 2 boys and didn't even realize how boy friendly my life was. I always ate breakfast (cereal, toast and peanut butter). I was a HUGE milk drinker (like 1 full bag a day out of the 3 bags that you buy. At least a litre a day). I was also a big meat eater (lots of chicken, pork, fish and sometimes red meat). Big egg eater too. Ate 3 meals a day and snacked all day long. I was never much into exercise though, but clearly my diet was so boy friendly I didn't need the weigh lifting or strength training. Never was one for caffeine either.

Sending all my blue dust your way ladies.

With my first two boys (unplanned) I was eating out a lot, high calories, lots of sodium, regular soda, caffeine, lots of red meat, lots of sweets, sex varies from each boy... Both my boys were conceived on ovulation, I knew right away I cold be pregnant because back then I only knew it was around 14 days since my period... With boy 3 I took vitex, my cycles were super short and my calendar made no sense at all, it looks like I got pregnant right after my period!. I was juicing consistently, eating way healthier, lots of protein, lots of working out, still a lot of red meat, coffee, beer, lots of ewcm.

Thought I would add mine (no swaying involved)

My diet was very boy friendly! I'd eat breakfast everyday without fail...this would consist of very buttery toast or cereal of some kind. Loved my tea & coffee, snacked quite a bit, meat eater, eggs, salads (with lots of dressing & tomatoes), potatoes, bananas, garlic, onion, Thai green curry, takeaways, avocado, cheese, tuna etc. Love salty/starchy foods.

I'd very rarely drink fizzy drinks, don't really like them. I hardly drink water - which is bad.

I took folic acid before TTC
Had multiple attempts
Didn't use OPK
Didn't jump & dump
Big O Both times
Had EWCM
Had pillow under my bum & did cycling legs.

Husband and I are both non-smokers, rarely drink alcohol. Didn't exercise, but wasn't over weight! Husband is a tea drink too with two sugars!!

Hope this helps any of you. Good luck!

Just wanted to add my two cents! I had no idea how much I was swaying boy at the time, but here it goes! I started taking prenatals about a month before, and ate 3 full meals a day, snacking in between. Was gaining some weight.... had heard it was good to get pregnant. Ate lots of protein, worked out 4 times a week. Had myself some muscle (all gone now!!). DTD everyday too. Hope this helps!!

A quick and I'm sure silly question on protein/carbs.

Do we need to balance the protein and carbs every snack & meal
or
Do we just need to eat protein and carbs every snack & meal

Sorry, sometimes I wonder at my own stupidity and the silly questions !!

For blue, you need to just eat SOME protein and carbs at every meal. :) Some foods like nuts already have some of both and are a good snack. Others, like meat and eggs, are mostly protein and so you need to squeeze some carbs in. Some foods are all carbs and you need to at least try to sneak in a bit of protein (I don't start counting it till it's over 3 g per serving) IF you are in a situation where you can only have just carbs, that isn't a dealbreaker, just try to eat again pretty soon after the last time you ate so you avoid having a blood sugar crash.

It doesn't take much protein to counterbalance the carbs, and it takes even less carbs to balance he protein. If you eat both, even if it's just a little bit, it's all good and yoru blood sugar will stay stable longer after eating.

Thanks Atomic :)

I asked here so as not to plague you with more questions lol it was still you who answered :oops:

;) I try to answer all relevant questions when I come across them!

I have four boys so I'll add what I can think of. I always eat breakfast, always. Usually a bowl of cereal or whole wheat toast with gobs of all natural (no sugar added) peanut butter and butter. Not too big on red meat but I love bbq'd burgers and steak in the summer (two of my boys were conceived in summer). I'm huge on salt. Add it to everything and my favourite snack is a bag of chips/crisps or salty, buttery popcorn. I don't exercise consistently. I drink lots of water, never coffee, Pepsi rarely. When we conceived, we DTD daily around ovulation, I always stayed lying down afterwards and DH always ejaculated deep.
DH drinks a lot of coffee, 2-3 large cups/day. He doesn't work out but is physically fit, not overweight.

Hmm that's all I can think of for now. Please take my blue dust :-)

I have two boys and ate pretty much the same before getting pregnant with both of them. I almost always ate breakfast. Sometimes I didn't eat much but it was always something, such as cereal, yogurt with granola, oatmeal, eggs, or waffles. I remember eating a lot of almond meal waffles before getting pregnant with DS2 which are PACKED with protein---about 42g (if anyone wants the recipe, please let me know!). For lunch, I ate a lot of grilled chicken salad, fried egg sandwiches, and lunchmeat sandwiches and chips. For dinner, it was almost always meat like chicken or beef, a vegetable, and either rice or potatoes. I often had dessert too. I also had to snack a lot during the day because I have gastroparesis so while I get full easily, I get hungry more quickly. Eating several small meals a day was also what I had to do because I have GERD. I was not exercising when I got pregnant with my boys although I had lost about ten pounds a few months prior to getting pregnant with DS2. I was underweight when I got pregnant with DS2 and a healthy weight with DS1. I also religiously took my prenatal vitamins for a year before getting pg with DS1 and with DS2, I was not taking prenatals but I was taking folic acid, vitamin D, vitamin b12, vitamin b6, and cod liver oil. I also ate lots of healthy fats like avocado, olive oil, and nuts. I should note I ate gluten free (still do) because of Celiac disease. I also ate a lot of dairy, especially milk, sour cream, and cheese.

Oh, I should also mention I gave up caffeine before conceiving DS1, but with DS2 I was drinking a cup of coffee a day. We also used preseed both times we conceived and DTD multiple times around ovulation. DH took l-carnitine both times as well as a multivitamin. He was also exercising regularly (lots of cardio and lifting weights).

HTH!! Lots of blue dust to you ladies hoping to hear blue!!!! :bluecheer:

I have two little boys. Always ate breakfast (usually oatmeal or muesli) always snacked every couple of hours- chocolate, cookies, crackers. I don't eat meat but plenty of healthy things like avocado, humous, beans, nuts. Always had lots of EWCM. Always took prenatal vitamins and others as well. No exercise, normal weight.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to the 'How we got our girls thread' :)

Good luck!

Hi girls, I am new but thought I would give all my blue dust to everyone on the ttc boy sway:babym: I myself have 2 boys o my own and a step son so I know all things boys. Before I got pregnant I was %100 on the boy diet without really knowing it. I am a small person but I love fast food so I would eat out 2-3 times a week for my lunch break and get a burger and really salted fries! I NEVER drank any alcohol but did drink lots of orange juice. I always took my prenatal vitamins for about a month or more before I was ttc and even though I'm small I was at my heaviest weight right before both of my pregnancies. I also had a 3-2 day cut off with both of them as I thought this was the only thing to sway back then! Oh and I NEVER had any sweets I love salty foods like chips and loaded nachos. Hope this helps out!!!

:agree: more evidence that timing doesn't sway!!! http://genderdreaming.com/forum/gend...le-timing.html

SO many of us got boy boy boy boy boy with cutoffs because that's all we ever heard of for swaying! :)

First Kid: I kept track of my cycles, which were very regular. I was afraid I'd have trouble conceiving, so we BDed on precise ovulation day, after several days of abstinence. Plenty of EWCM and Os, then I stuck my legs up on the wall to keep the swimmers from falling out. (Dh laughed his head off.) We went out to dinner all the time, and I was gaining weight. Meals of steak, prime rib, beef ribs, hamburgers, and tons of salt. Also lots of pasta and cheese, but around this time we switched to soy milk, so I was drinking less milk than usual. Result: Boy on the first try.

Second kid: tracking cycle. Thought of trying to do a cut off to try for a girl, but chickened out and did the same timing as first one, without worrying about position or swimmers falling out. Still eatin beef several times a week and lots of salty, processed foods and sweets. Result: Boy on first try.

Third kid: still breastfeeding second kid. AF had not started again, so dh and I were careless. My diet was still rich, and I hadn't lost baby weight from ds2 yet. Result: Suprize pregnancy. It wasn't a good time, but we went with it hoping for a girl. When u/s showed boy, I hid and cried.

Fourth try.... Turned to ivf with PGD. But now I wish I tried the noninvasive methods earlier.

Thought I would add how I got my 2 handsome boys! I conceived DS 1 one year after getting married. I was at a good weight. I didn't have a gender preference and I didn't know you could sway anyway. Everything was boy friendly! Diet was high sodium, high nutrient. I had been on prenatal vitamins for a year. TMI... dtd on ovulation, lots of ewcm/wet, always had at least 1 big O, and jokingly did a headstand after and propped hips.
With DS 2 I wanted my little guy to have a brother but still didn't know about swaying. We had one attempt day of O (Maybe even 8-12 hours AFTER O) but everything else was the same as first time and I was about 12 pounds heavier.
I never realized how much I "swayed" boy until I learned about swaying! I also have hypothyroidism and PCOS. I was on metformin and synthroid. Hubby's family hasn't had a girl in 32 years! He has 2 brothers and a sister. The 5 grandkids on his side- all boys!
All of my BLUE dust I am passing on to you lovely ladies :bluecheer:

I had my boy by insemination. I'm totally convinced that IUI sways blue. I have three friends who did insemination too. One of them was pregnant with a boy, the other with twins boys and only one was pregnant with a girl. I think insemination sways blue.
Atomic I would like to know your opinion about it as the expert you are. Do u agree or not? Do u have statistics about IUI and gender?

I totally agree that IUI sways blue, and I have statistics from one study done on timing (they're somewhere on here) where everyone who wanted a boy was given IUI on O day, and they got overwhelmingly boys. Of course they took that to mean timing sways, but tons of other studies have totally debunked that, so that leaves the IUI as swaying blue. (hope that makes sense, a bit hard to explain!)

I have two DS. I didn't sway for either of my boys but I do know that with DS2 I ate a lot of meat, and snacked a lot, drank a lot of coffee, and I was in nursing school so under a lot of stress (not sure if that sways or not). We also ate a lot of take out and fast foods for convenience. DH wears boxer briefs, works in construction industry around a lot of dust, drinks a lot of coffee, no pop, eats a lot of red meat. With DS2 I had a copper IUD in when I got pregnant and I have hypothyroidism. Since we didn't plan the pregnancy I don't know what my levels were at the time. With DS1 we ate out a lot as well. I track my cycle but I do know I've always had a lot of CM. Hope that helps. Diet seems to be a big factor for me and maybe the coffee. But I've heard of coffee swaying for both so um kind of confused about that part since I didn't drink a lot of coffee with DS1.

I've posted on here before. Come to think of it,I don't know how I ended up with boys. Before I had ds1 which was 13 years ago.lol, I never used to eat my first meal till late...although I think I was having my tea around 11-12.00 at night. I can remember eating quite a lot but not putting weight on. I had pot noodles, ready meals,pizza,don't think I ate loads of meat.never had diet Pepsi.I can remember missing meals quite a lot.ds2 which was 9 year ago was pretty much the same.I always went out every weekend and Got plastered.lol. the good old days. We dtd loads more than we do now.lol. apart from the amount of attempts I think my lifestyle was more girlish due to the missing meals and eating crap?

Typically 'crap' is high in cals and fat so even skipping meals it could sway blue. Plus you may just be inherently very healthy and fertile, both of which sway blue. Sooo many boy moms seem to be able to eat a lot without gaining weight and I think that is linked. Something about a high metabolism seems to sway strongly blue, plus of course eating a lot in itself sways blue!

Im completely different now though. I have to watch what I eat. Which is a good thing