Timing and tweaking?

Ohhh - the TWW, I always, always gave in and started testing at around 1w after lol last wee one we actually got a bfp 4 days before af was due, so we tested every day to keep "checking ", in the end DH bought a digital!!

I exercise quite a bit anyway, so not sure if that is a massive sway tactic or not - I've always been quite fit, although not a very healthy weight (never worked out how?) - but BMI is 25 now after 12weeks of exercising (lost 2stone over 8wks), before we decided even to try and sway!! So quite pleased that is part of pink sway!!

I only saw the friendship thing when I was on my profile and it said "Friend list" - I figured there must be a way lol

Oh, back to TWW...it's actually more tough isn't it - cos we still need to wait for AGES to see if the sway was a success! With our last I went for the scan at 20wks and before the sonographer could move, our wee one spun himself round and planted his butt, legs wide and all bits on display right where her hand was - she laughed and said "well, I hope you wanted to know what sex it is" ...very much a boy. I was expecting a huge wave of disappointment as I'd had my heart set on a wee girl - but I was sooo very pleased, I actually shocked myself! I had attended the scan on my own (in fact I attended all scan on my own and even ended up given birth by myself) but couldn't wait to run to the phone and tell everyone it was a boy!! Kinda hoping I'll have the same reaction if it's another boy - like I said I'm finding it hard to place 100% trust in the whole "swaying" - but I guess that's just me lol


So very, very excited for you now!!

Haha yes I have been testing early too, but still BFN :( although it is still early, but I think if I don't see anything at all by say Tue, then it will likely be "on to next cycle"

OMG well done on the weight loss, that is fab!...I have lost around 2.5 stones but it has taken me around 23wks of diet + 17wks of exercising for an hour every day...2 stone in 8wks is great work!

Wow you are so brave giving birth on your own, I don't think I could ever do that, I am too much of a wimp, and want all the drugs they will give me, and DH there to hold my hand and get shouted at lol!!

Yeah I know what you mean about not believing we can get the gender we want, but I think that attitude will stand us in good stead for not being too upset if we get boys!....after finding this site, I really do believe in swaying now (wasn't convinced by IG) but I would like to think my eyes are well & truly open, as I honestly believe if DH+I had just TTC normally with no swaying I would have been 80-90% likely to have a boy (had such a boy-mum lifestyle without realising!)...so the way I am looking at it is, even if I can swing it back to 50/50 then that is at least a CHANCE at a DD, which I doubt I would have had before!...I really hope I get there in the end, or at least get pg with a healthy baby...I think I will be happy with a boy too, but it may take me a few wks to get over the disappointment of "no pink" after finding out...but I will know I tried my best and "he" was just meant to be :)

Fx for both of us x

Women can have EWCM for days and days in a variety of patterns normally and it has nothing to do with double ovulation. A double ovulation would occur within a 24 hour period anyway (and usually sooner than that). It is biologically impossible for people to ovulate days and days apart because after ovulation the corpus luteum forms and generates progesterone that inhibits further eggs from being released.

People get EWCM in all different patterns and this can vary by the month. Sometimes your body just shoots out a little bit of EWCM in advance (keep in mind, people aren't "set" to bathe/shower daily and so a bit of EWCM even a week in advance of ovulation would help with conception even many days away). It's also totally possible to get some EWCM after ovulation. I had EWCM for a few days after ov. with my DD.

I do recommend you get OPK. Get the cheap ones online and they are not that much money really. There's no better way to get a heads up warning that you are about to ovulate. Temping only tells you what has happened, it can't help you predict what is going to happen.

my advice is to stick with one attempt, that's given best odds of pink. And he needs to have 7-10 attempts BEFORE that one attempt. So whatever pattern he goes with, he needs to have 7-10 releases BEFORE that attempt. All the rest of what you want me to answer depends on when you ovulate and without OPK or a chart to look at, I simply can't say when that is.

Drinking tons of full fat dairy is going to sway blue for you. Dairy can't be an unlimited free food, it has too much nutrition. If you MUST treat dairy as an unlimited food, use skim dairy.

30 min. of cardio is moderate exercise which tends to sway blue. You need to up that to 60 min. if possible, 45 at the very least.

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Originally Posted by Coyleof7

Just to clarify: He has to FR from end of AF to 4 days BEFORE EWCM (or O) so FR from CD 4 - 11?

When then do we DTD?

Obviously in September I should be able to predict O day, so I guess I'm asking (once we know):
Does he Fr til CD 10 then ABSTAIN or DTD til O?
Do we DTD before O or on O?
How many times should we DTD?

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he needs to do FR 7-10 days before the earliest attempt that can possibly get you pregnant.

So, if you were doing one attempt, he needs to release 7-10 days before that attempt. If you are doing 3 attempts starting O-2, he needs to release 7-10 days before that first attempt.

It is totally impossible for any of us to give you a CD date that he should start on, because we don't know what day you ovulate on, if that makes sense