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I am like 99.99% sure it was the pep tea Maureen, but then again you also lost gobs of weight. I want you to continue gaining.
We have seen PLENTY of people who gained and got girls. Pretty much ALL the blue sway opposites and a fair number of pinkies also gained weight
Of all the essays, none quite explains me conceiving a girl than this one, I think. Especially since I WAS one of those anorexic women crash dieting before pregnancy "to get as thin as I could before having to gain weight with pregnancy"!
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I know this lady who was overweight and always went on a diet before TTC. She had 2 girls, then decided she was going to sway for a boy, but she was always scared that she'd gain weight with swaying blue, so she'd go on a crash diet and lose like 20 lbs and then be like "oh heck with it, I'm swaying anyway" and then she'd try for one month and then say "I can't get pregnant when I'm swaying" and drop everything. Had 3 more girls that way. :/
Great thread this one!
I just gave a really thorough explanation of this concept in this thread http://genderdreaming.com/forum/tryi...frequency.html
Thank you for this atomic. I always enjoy reading your posts! So I am a thin boy mom. I have always been able to eat a ton of food and not gain. Not super into working out so I'm the Skinny fat body type. I carry my weight in my belly though. I conceived my first boy at 95 pounds and am 5'4". I have very high fertility too. Always get pregnant the first try. This time I got pregnant after a miscarriage. Still team green and this was my first sway so waiting to see.
Good luck dreaming!
This is interesting. I have 2 sweet daughters and another one on the way. I love my baby girls, next go around I want to try for a boy. I am not very fertile, I've had years where I'd only ovulate once or twice a year. My first daughter was a total surprise and miracle. My second daughter was conceived with the aid of provera. and this one I ended up using clomid. If I have to continue to use fertility help will that always sway pink? I've also always eaten low fat, low protein foods. Im about 5'8" and weigh 125-135. It varies, so it could be that too. I adore my girls and I would love 2 or 3 sons after this. I want to start reading up on info about diet. I can't seem to find consistent information on any other sites and it drives me nuts. I'm so excited to start studying out swaying and see if it works for me. :)
Hi and welcome Rosie!!
We have seen a trend where gals who have a bit of a tougher time getting pregnant, and also those on Clomid, do have more daughters than the general population. But it isn't a dealbreaker, you can still sway your heart out and will be better off than if you kept doing the same thing and expected a different result.
Do you have PCOS, do they think?? We have an alternate version of our HE Diet that is better for people who have fertility issues. It is here in this thread, 5 from the top, and you'd follow the variant for blue swayers http://genderdreaming.com/forum/gend...rt-3-pcos.html
If at any point you have any questions or confusion, ASK. There is always an explanation for everything on this site and reasons why our advice does not always match other sites. I'm always happy to explain. :)
I sent you a private message with some questions. Thanks!
Oh ok I'll look for it. It sometimes takes me longer to do PM's than forum q's just because forum q's benefit everyone instead of one at a time. :)
Ok I'll start a forum question :) I don't think it sent anyways :think:
I know this is an old post but I'm freaking out! I am about 9 weeks pregnant right now... Tried to sway pink... my bloodwork from my 8 week appt cane back and they said my blood glucose a1c was a lil high and want me to drink that glucola drink at my 12 week appt! I thought I did good on my diet- didn't eat til after 1130 am, no red meat, some chicken for 2 months before and lots of cheese, strawberries & no fat Greek yogurt for a month before. Used equal in coffee and crystal light. Didn't eat pasta. And tried not to snack. How is it that my A1C went up!?!? Is this going to lower my odds of hearing pink? Any way the pregnancy itself is raising it this early!? It measures last 3 months... half of which o was pregnant for. Also, in that 3 months I lost 22 pounds! 10 of those pounds in the last month before getting pregnant. Im shocked & thinking the dr office is gonna call back and say they were kidding or mixed up the results!!!!! I have 3 boys and never had a problem with glucose! HELP PLEASE
Sorry I pressed 'thanks' accidentally! :) Good luck with everything xx
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What your blood glucose level is now tells you nothing about your sway.
Yes absolutely your blood sugar can rise from pregnancy this soon. Pregnancy makes blood sugar go up.
I suspect it was just a fluke thing, you'll go in and do fine on the Glucola test and it was probably just something you'd eaten that hadn't left your system when they tested. They just want to be sure that nothing is wrong.
I've been sick (winter cold) so haven't been on that much. Just to clarify.... the A1C glucose test is a "snapshot of the last 3 months." It wasn't just testing that day:( I was pregnant for 6 of the weeks & on my diet for 6 of the weeks. To keep myself from getting too paranoid and depressed I keep telling myself maybe it's because my body isn't used to having a girl in there (even tho you say gender doesn't present til later in the trimester)
We do not know that your levels mean anything. When we say "low blood sugar levels" we are not actually describing a number you can measure. Your body doesn't "like" having low blood sugar levels and immediately takes steps to raise them by burning off its stores. It is this whole process that we're talking about, not a number on a chart.
Everyone's body "knows" how to grow boys or girls. Remember, we were all pregnant once with our first baby regardless of their gender.
Glucose in pregnancy, as I've learned, often has nothing to do with us. It's all the placenta! Unless you have Type 1 or 2, the placenta is your new mistress of glucose lol.Quote:
Originally Posted by ChrisM
That said, I had a GD diagnosis that even my midwife agreed was erroneous -- I, nor my DD, ever had a single symptom outside of a few points over the 1 hour test (which had only changed to a lower norm the few months before I did it!). I learned from the doctor on staff, however, that certain "metabolic derangement" (eesh... actual phrase she used) can both trigger a false positive for GD and also actually contribute a bit to GD. The LE diet isn't the "derangement" I experienced (history of anorexia with a relapse before I conceived my DD), but it's a diet more in line with it than say the HE.
So, all that said -- I have a thread on here somewhere when I was dealing with all of this. I had a girl!! Definitely don't think any of this means you're having a boy.
:agree: and one of the worst glucose tests I ever had was when I had been pregnant with twins but one did not survive. I had 2 placentas, one baby, and then I was actually kind of out of it when I was taking the 3 hr. glucose test (I always flunk the first one for some reason). They told me to prepare for failing the test but then I passed. I also gained tons of weight with that pregnancy. The two placentas!
Something like 67% of women fail the 1 hour! Oh, the rants I could go on about the GD test...Quote:
Originally Posted by atomic sagebrush
Yes, me too. I failed it 4 of 5 times. The one time I didn't fail it was the one time I thought I may have actually had something going on (I'd get REALLY sleepy after eating sometimes - like "couldn't drive a car" sleepy) but that time I passed! Human body is weird
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I was just thinking about this thread the other day! My husband and I independently came to a similar theory that maybe all the LE stuff I was doing before DD suppressed my fertility so much that ONLY the strongest sperm could make it to the egg or something... considering I was killing myself and had a healthy baby right off the bat, and have been super healthy for 2 years now and the 6 unexplained losses!
Hyperfertility is sure a "not good" road I ever wanted to go down!
If there is any undiscovered autoimmune thing (because immune issues and fertility is the undiscovered country - they know really nothing about it) going on it also makes sense - if you were run down you may have actually knocked back your immune system enough to grow a baby! I SO wish we had more resources available to study these things. (((Hugs)))
bumping, had a lot of q's on this recently.
What an awesome topic!!!! I know it’s old but I’m bringing it back!
It makes total sense for me being a boy mum - I’d eat healthy foods and plenty of food , naturally slim and tall so whatever I ate didn’t gain weight so didn’t matter , so I’d eat huge steaks with battered fish and chips and salads, eggs etc, pregnant first try. Then swayed for my daughter and got her by hugely cutting down my calorie intake and all the food I usually ate like eggs, red meat, dairy etc. then naturally didn’t sway and had another boy. Now back again trying to sway for girl again. Cutting down all my food , eating processed crap carbs like 2 minute noodles and rice. I will say I conceived all children 1st time even my daughter.
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[mention]atomic sagebrush [/mention] Is white food still ok for diet? I’m ttc this time next month! So really cracking downQuote:
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Bump this for me if I don't get back to answer!
I love keeping the older threads going so they're chock full of info, instead of having 9 zillion threads with a tidbit of info in each one! Easier to get it all under one roof.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nowmarriedgirl
Whether or not to do white foods depends on whether or not you have any insulin resistance. For anyone with PCOS, egg quality issues, insulin resistance and a history of gestational diabetes or metabolic syndrome, or more than 30-50 lbs to lose, they're better off having whole grains, full fat dairy only, limiting sugar, and increasing protein and fat macros to 50-60 g (cutting carbs without having to count or track carbs in any way) while keeping cals the same. This is our "alternate" or "PCOS type" diet and we're getting outstanding results with it even for those without PCOS.
I would honestly switch everyone over to it, but some people can't stick to it and others lose weight too quickly. So there's still a place for the standard diet with the white grains, but on the whole I think most people should be doing the alternate diet if at all possible, even if just in a modified, halfway form.
Awesome thanks so much Atomic for replying!!!! Yea here good to know, I don’t have anything as you described but I’m doing half and half. White grains for lunch but also whole grains for dinner etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nowmarriedgirl
Also I’ve seen that BCP sways girl. Would it be a good girl sway idea to take it say every second day?! So it’s not affective as such but in my system? Thanks atomic!!!!!
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Sounds good! Let me know if you see any signs or symptoms of insulin resistance (unexpected weight gain, or even just absence of weight loss when you think you should be losing weight, hair growth, irregular cycle, sudden outbreaks of acne, that sort of thing) and we may want you to shift exclusively to whole grains.
Don't take the BCP every other day. Either use it, or don't. We don't know that it works every other day for swaying, and it will very likely make your cycle screwy taking it that way (course, that may be why it sways pink, but we don't know that for sure.) You would have to stop using it when you're TTC because it might still suppress your ability to conceive, even every other day.