boy moms and dads and caffeine intake

thanks everyone! guess ill just have to wait for march (gender US).

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Originally Posted by Hobbermittens

Hey Gizmo, I was wondering how you were! How's everything going?

My DH drinks coffee daily, and I had him switch to decaf for the sway but he still had some regular a couple times a week. I think he was drinking coffee when we conceived our DS? I don't remember.

The guy DH works with chews tobacco, drinks a HUGE thermos of coffee a day, and smokes "special cigarettes" and has 2 boys. My BIL drinks coffee and iced tea and has 2 boys. I know a family with BBGB where the dad drinks a ton of coffee and smokes. And I know a guy who owns a coffee shop (don't know if he drinks the stuff, but he must!) who has BGBB. If I think of more, I will let you know.

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thats promising! i tried to get dh to switch to decaf but he complainiend aboiut how it doesnt taste the same..wahhh wahh.
heheh
everything is going as good as it should be. had my 1st appt finally. some of the same discrepancies in my bloodwork as with all my pregnancies...so far so good. i plan to get gender screen at 20 weeks which is in march!@ that is a LOONG time! what bout you hobbers? WHENS THE next aattempt?

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Originally Posted by gizmo77

thats promising! i tried to get dh to switch to decaf but he complainiend aboiut how it doesnt taste the same..wahhh wahh.
heheh
everything is going as good as it should be. had my 1st appt finally. some of the same discrepancies in my bloodwork as with all my pregnancies...so far so good. i plan to get gender screen at 20 weeks which is in march!@ that is a LOONG time! what bout you hobbers? WHENS THE next aattempt?

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My DH tried to tell me that too, because he didn't like the first brand of decaf I got him, but he liked the Dunkin' Donuts kind just fine. Hey, how is the weight gain so far? I am curious about how that will work once I get pg... I have gotten so fat from all this eating, I wonder if I will lose once I stop eating so much? What has happened with you?

Just finished up this month's attempt. Not happy with the way some of it happened, because I may have O'ed early, but I don't know... I made a post about it, if you want to look.

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Originally Posted by atomic sagebrush

Always exceptions but I think that low/moderate caffeine tends to = more boys while very high caff intake = more girls.

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I always thought caffeine swayed boy. Me and my hubby love diet coke. I thought for sure we would have to switch to caffeine free when we start swaying.

I completely agree with Atomic!! I know many couples, that DH is smoker and heavy coffee or black tea drinker, has more girls!! I mean like smoking a pack cigs, with 4-5 cups coffee or a whole thermose of black tea!! they all have girls!! and want boys so badly! lol

My DH on the other hand, does not smoke or drink..he's pretty healthy too..i guess that's why we have 2 boys?!...I started drinking Sprite O...because of the aspartame..but I was hearing from alot of ladies that their DH started to load up on Diet coke before their attempt, TTC a girl! what do you ladies think?

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Originally Posted by Navywife620

I always thought caffeine swayed boy. Me and my hubby love diet coke. I thought for sure we would have to switch to caffeine free when we start swaying.

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That's the IG story, but the fact is that caffeine does not block calcium absorption(unless you drink like a fatal amoutn of it for months/years) and we don't even know for sure if calcium sways pink.

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Originally Posted by Wishing4Princess

I completely agree with Atomic!! I know many couples, that DH is smoker and heavy coffee or black tea drinker, has more girls!! I mean like smoking a pack cigs, with 4-5 cups coffee or a whole thermose of black tea!! they all have girls!! and want boys so badly! lol

My DH on the other hand, does not smoke or drink..he's pretty healthy too..i guess that's why we have 2 boys?!...I started drinking Sprite O...because of the aspartame..but I was hearing from alot of ladies that their DH started to load up on Diet coke before their attempt, TTC a girl! what do you ladies think?

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I think Diet Coke is fine for TTC a girl. Just be sure that he doesn't drink any caff 1-2 hours before the attempt because it ~may~ make sperm perkier and swim faster so more make it to the egg.

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Originally Posted by atomic sagebrush

I think Diet Coke is fine for TTC a girl. Just be sure that he doesn't drink any caff 1-2 hours before the attempt because it ~may~ make sperm perkier and swim faster so more make it to the egg.

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I am so happy to hear this! Thank you Atomic! :)

My DH hates coffee and coke, so he doesn't get any caffeine into his system.
We have 5 ds's! I love coffee and diet coke by the way!!

Neither DH nor I had any sort of close to regular or even weekly caffeine intake when I conceived two boys.