Anyone planning a Sept/Oct/Nov 2015 sway? Chat here!

Hi everyone, not been on for a week or two. I'm very committed to swaying now and I'm trying to think positively. I'm picturing my daughter, which I've never allowed myself to do before. At the start of this process a few years ago I was completely obsessed with having a duaghter (still am a bit, can't help feeling it would make me 'complete') and if I was going to get pregnant again it HAD to be with a girl. Its been hard walking away from HT but I'm now getting to the stage where I'm just wanting a 4th child. Obviously I would prefer a girl but most of all I just want a happy healthy family. My SIL just had a miscarriage and it's rocked me a bit, I'm so sad for them and guess it has made me feel a bit bad. I still worry about GD if I have another boy but I'm feeling a bit braver about it. I'm also picturing another boy and thinking of the positives. One thing I'm dreading is how other people will react - I already get so many rude and unhelpful comments that only make my GD worse.

I got my opk strips this week. Any tips on how/when to use them is much appreciated! Diet still a struggle, but am losing weight slowly. We won't start trying until end Oct/start Nov so I'm trying to stick to it as much as possible now with a few cheats but will be going hardcore for the month before hand. Kids back to school this week so I can start exercising!

2x I have for the first time in my life bought a baby girls outfit. I have it under my bed, it can't hurt! If I don't get my daughter I'm hopeful of having a niece one day so will pass it onto her. It's so beautiful. I have bought a lavender candle, hand soap, shower gel and bath oil!!! I just bought them online. I didn't know about Rose Quartz! I'm also hoping my timing will fall in a new moon but that is all the old wives tales/ion things I m doing. I thought I might as well throw everything I can at this!

Jenny did your SIL find out the gender yet? My SIL also has a boy, I really hope they fall pregnant again soon following MC but I'm also very nervous of being pregnant at the same time as her and how I would feel if she had a girl and I didn't! Hate feeling this way!

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Hi ladies, have been totally AWOL for the past while. Turned 33 in July and had not one but two celebrations, cause I'm a glutton like that. Was doing so well up to then too but then hit a bump in the road with meals out and alcohol etc so had about 12 days of cheat ish ness! I say ish cause it was still less than I would have had before but more than I would be having on LE. Also exercise has had to take a back seat. Both my boys are in some kind of sleep regression so my evenings when I used to do my cardio are not my own. We fly to Florida for 2 weeks at Disney at the end of this week. Totallygonna cheat but not gonna worry much about protein and fat, gonna aim to keep within the upper limits of calories and hope the walking walking walking involved helps keep weight off. I am wavering between 122-124 the past while. I like the way I look now but have had more than one or two friends and family members comment I look too skinny so really don't want to lose much more.

Our attempts are hopefully starting in Sept!! I should be due to O around the 16th!! The thought makes me a little nervous!!

A friend of mine had her little boy after two girls the other day. I have to say I felt a little GD when she had him. Not cause she had her DG but cause I sometimes (irrationally I know!!) feel like there's not enough luck to go around. Everyone I know is having the DG so when it's my turn I will be the one to have an opposite. DH is dragging his feet on the sway as he thinks I will be more disappointed in having another boy after all the focus and hard work. Sometimes I wonder if he's right but I suppose I can't possibly know how I would feel unless it actually happened!

So who else is starting their attempts in Sept girls?

Hi Hopper,

My attempt is in Sept, I should O around the 28th or so. I would have been on the LE Diet for 22 weeks by that time. I am so scared for my attempt. I know I have done/ doing everything I can possible do, but I am also worried about failure. I had horrible GD with my second boy, I cried for a month, he was an oops baby.

I keep trying to reassure myself that I have possibly given it my all for 4 and a half months, so I am hoping I am blessed with a daughter. It will be like winning the lotto in life for me. This is my last baby, if its another boy I am going to have to find away to move on from this, although I know in my heart I will be totally gutted/ angry and devastated with life if I don't succeed!

I know its a risk, but if I don't take it, I will always regret it. I have longed for my girl my whole life.

I also really want this diet to be over with. I am dying for a yummy lamb curry, calamari, hot chips, chicken, cereal, cake.... all the yummy things. I have tried my best to be a strict as I can, with a few cheats here and there for birthdays.

Anyways, fingers crossed we are both blessed with our baby girls.

Thanks Pink!! I am so nervous to try but I know what you mean, I will regret what might have been if we don't try! I think I MIGHT be coming to the stage where I will be ok with the outcome either way but then I also wonder if that's my mind playing tricks on me and how can I possibly know how I feel until I am confronted with the reality, if that makes sense lol.

I didn't feel disappointed in the moment with DS2. It was actually DS1 I felt that with, the guilt kills me from time to time but it is what it is. It took me several weeks to bond with him as a result of GD :( We were team green that time so made sure to find out on DS2, I bonded with him a lot easier. I think that once I know in advance I "should" be fine!

What I am not looking forward to is the comments from people when we do get pregnant like "oh I bet you went for a girl!" And then if it's a boy being asked if I'm disappointed!!! Have a bit of courtesy please and don't ask that question! I wouldn't be disappointed - I would be mourning the fact I wouldn't ever have a daughter. That's different to disappointment.

I was freaking out about the amount of cheats I have had since May 1st. I will have been on diet 20 weeks when we try but had about a total of 4 weeks of cheats, where to be honest I have still mostly stayed in the limits. Even on my very very worst cheat days I don't think I exceeded 1800 calories, I've mostly been eating 1400-1600. I haven't denied myself anything if I craved it. I have ate mostly everything except only had red meat maybe twice since May (hard for me being anaemic lol) and haven't had cereal or full fat sodas which I would have lived on before. I was vegetarian for the first 6-8 weeks but found it way too hard to fit in with my lifestyle so added back in small portions of meat and white fish. I don't eat anything very nutrient dense if I can avoid it whereas before I would have had a super healthy diet. Sometimes this diet feels like it's doing long term damage to my metabolism so I really hope we are first or second time lucky when we try.
I have been skipping breakfast since March or April 2014 when I found this site.
I was 136lbs ish when I started on this site. Got to 130 just by fasting before eating breakfast. Started diet on May 1st and weighed myself this morning. I am the lowest I have ever been at 121lbs and BMI of 19.5!! Hopefully I can keep it off between now and attempt time!!

Realised something else last night - DS2 is going through the 18 month sleep regression. It is absolute hell but I'm looking on the bright side - doesn't broken sleep sway pink lol?

On another topic, we fly out to Disney on Saturday and I have NOTHING done!!! I'm so tired from the broken sleep and really craving awful food - AF is due around the 26th while we are away. I was going to take medication to delay it but my O in Sept and Oct is due to happen during a New Moon and a girl sign - which I know doesn't really have an impact but every little sways right? Lol!!!

Hi Hopper, good luck next month! I am also trying to get to the stage where I would be happy with another boy - not sure if I'm just deceiving myself so I'm brave enough to try or if I'm really ok with it yet. Well, I know I would be ok with it, just worried about how sad I will feel at the door finally closing on my dream of a daughter. I was like you, team green with DS1 and also struggled to bond with him at first (don't think it helped he looked NOTHING like me or my side of the family) found out with my twins and was so ready for boys by the time they arrived. I also really irrationally worry about what other people will think. I know I shouldn't pay any attention but like you I know I will get all the thoughtless comments of "I hope it's a girl" etc etc. People don't mean it but it can really make you feel rubbish. I was going to start ttc soon but now I'm bridesmaid at my sisters wedding in May so I am putting it off a couple of months. We are also thinking of going to Disneyland, in October, it would be about a month before we start trying. I will need a lot of willpower to stick to the diet!

I have never tracked my ovulation before and have irregular long cycles, any suggestions as to when I should start testing?

Welcome new ones!

Ttc, I bought a baby girls little dress today. Felt so weird to go to girls section in the store. I just wanted to pick something up quickly, not to spend too much time there. I put it under our mattress. The dress is just so beautiful. Wish we'll have a little girl who can wear that. I have also started picturing our dd, never allowed myself to do that either. Sorry about you SIL.

Hi hopper! We will have our first attempt in Sept. I should O around 23.9. So there's you, Pink Pony and me having first attempt in Sept. Anyone else?

My cousin and his wife had their 3rd boy last week. Not that close to them but maybe they were hoping for a girl. My friend is pregnant with her first and she's positive they will have a girl. She only wants girls. I'm pretty sure they will have one. They are team green and is due end of Sept.

Our first attempt will be October! I'm so nervous.. But I'm just like all of you. I couldn't handle the "what-ifs" if she turns out to be a she. I've really tried to convince myself that having a DD2 will be okay. But I know I will still be very devastated.. I though for SURE I convinced myself if be happy either way with DD1 but there was no way I could get out of that GD funk.. No way. /:

We are going team green for our next pregnancy. I found out at 19 weeks with DD and it instantly made me miserable the ready of my pregnancy... I hated every day she was in me cuz I know I would connect with her once she was in my arms. And I just don't want to deal with that again. I want to enjoy every day. (Good and bad :p) and then just be overwhelmed with love when she or he gets here so it helps alleviate disappointment if it's a girl. We'll see:) DH wants to know early.. I SO wish he would wait because I know he's going to be obvious in his face and behavior!

What's also hard is I will be guess in my head based on ultrasounds now that I know more about different theory's like ramzi's theory, the nub theory, the heart rate theory etc! So I won't be able to help myself! I'm almost tempted to just not see any ultrasounds either cuz I don't want to speculate! Idk.. Haha all so far away at this point so we will just have to see what happens when the time comes :)

I would love to experience team green as we've never done that before but I'm afraid I can't do that this time. I was really disappointed when we found out with DS2 at 20 week scan but it wasn't that I didn't enjoy my pregnancy.

Oops sent that accidentally before I was ready...

But team green would be lovely especially if it was my DG but I really don't want to be disappointed at birth. I think we will find out unless something happens and I'm ready being team green. But we'll see.

My AF started this Tuesday and it has been really light. Never had this light period. Yesterday only had some spotting and this morning
little bit more. Usually my period lasts to 5-6 days and is much heavier the first days. Either it's the LE diet or I had wisdom teeth pulled out last week and had antibiotics and ibuprofen for it but took the last doses on Tuesday.