How we got our boys!

I just love this thread so much! Thank you ladies for taking the time to do this, I check everyday to see if there are any new posts!!

I have four:babym: and i had lots of orgasms around ovulation for all four and ate really healthy balanced diet hth:-)

I ate anything I wanted but most of it healthy. I was a big taco ell fan a few months before and then I ate a load of cafeteria food which never was good for you. Lots of turkey sandwiches with avocado and mayo and tomatoes. I ate an avocado or two a week maybe more. With a spoon and salt haha! Breakfast burritos with eggs and sausage nearly 5 days a week. I love tomatoes. Eat them raw on everything tomatoes can go on. I never eat white anything. not a big sugar eater. but i ate icecream and chocolate. high fat sugary things. big appetite. I've always made food a priority $ wise. I was probably 30# heavier which included a lot of new muscle from a grunt job I had. Lifting boxes and running with them for 8 hours. I was the only girl on the team. Ive never been a eed meat lover of any kind but i eat it when its offered or my ex wanted it. so nearly every day. Drank and smoked though. (Ive quit now for 6 years)
I just started swaying pink. It goes against every fiber of me but I'm committed. I see tomatoes and avocados and big glasses of kale and spinach juice and miss it. I need to make some hummus today.. Without salt:/

DH were eating a large serving of red meat with potato's and big serve of veggies every day! DH loves anything packed with cals for beverages and it addiceted to V's at the time of 2, heaps of strong coffee, loved B vitamin barocca drink every day! Honestly not big on salt but love take out once a week and probably ate all lot of canned goodies fruits and so forth. Pretty un healthy hah! Oh I am personally allergic to any white meat so no fish or chicken either and can't eat 90% of the fruits :( As the acidic builts up and I get ulsers and ther are down right painful!!! Yay me! I tried the IG diet with ds2 and couldn't stick to it! pasta and milk was all I could eat! :( I was starving for something with nutrience and would binge every few days because I felt like passing out! Ohh and DH loves soy sauce a lot and chilli!! Bedding was prety much O day, except for ds2 was a 3 day cut off and angel baby a 5 day! I have always had lots of ewcm around O!

With my first son and second son I basically ate whatever I wanted and that included lots of meat, pizza, fast food, etc. I also love cereal with milk and would have that almost every morning for breakfast and also alot of times for "dessert". I have PCOS so do not have a normal cycle and get EWCM often, I think because of too much estrogen. I had to take clomid to ovulate with them both. With number 3 I was trying to lose weight and eat healthier but that included eating often and lots of produce and still plenty of meat. I was taking lots of supplements and had just bought a vitamix so had plenty of green smoothies, etc. Oh, also, almost always had Big O

I posted in this thread before about what I did generally to inadvertently sway blue, but I recently stumbled on my food diary of exactly what I was eating and what supps I was taking when we were TTC #2.

I was on a diet to treat Adrenal Fatigue which is almost exactly the same as the HE diet Atomic recommends. I had to eat within 30 minutes of waking up, then every 2 hours until 2pm, then two more meals before going to bed early and getting 10-12 hours of sleep.

Here's a sample day-
Breakfast: 2 eggs scrambled in butter or coconut oil
Lunch: A huge salad with leaf lettuce, tomatoes, bell peppers, Parmesan cheese, with Olive Oil and vinegar applied very liberally as the dressing, Organic V8-type drink
Afternoon Snack: More tomatoes and bell peppers, zucchini dipped in hummus
Dinner: Soft shell taco with brown rice, beans, ground beef, and cheddar cheese
Bedtime Snack: A full cup of plain whole milk yogurt with a tsp of maple syrup in it.

I was drinking tons and tons of water straight from our well, very high in minerals. I often added lemon juice or ACV to it because I liked the taste.

Supplements:
1 tsp sea salt in 8oz water twice a day
Prenatal vitamin - New Chapter Perfect Prenatal whole foods organic vitamins
Cod liver oil
B-vitamin complex
Hema-Plex (Iron supp with tons of extra B-vits)
B-12 megadose
Folic Acid (daily total was 4000-5000mcg when we conceived)
Vit E megadose
Mag/Cal/D (200% RDA Mag, 40% RDA Cal, 50% RDA Vit D)

This is just what I did at the time. Atomic doesn't recommend the megadoses of vitamins and I really don't think most people need them. I was in a unique situation health-wise and they helped me, but I probably could have taken way less and still gotten a boy.

When i conceived my boys i was always eating and snacking a lot. Could eat all day, was addicted to dairy (no milk, yoghurt 1,5% fat with cereals, yummie!)

I think my bloodsugar never dropped because then i felt cranky and ate something. I think i was addicted to carbs, LOL.

We bd twice a week i think.

Few caffeinated drinks, drank herbal tea, water and fruit juice.
Loved to drink wine, but was bf-ing my first while conceiving my ds2. Lost almost all the pregnancy weight by then but my bmi was around 25.

I excersiced moderately, horse riding 1-3 times a week with my first, no exercise with my second. Cycling 20 minutes four times a week to and from the railway station (not as an exercise) with both my boys.

Without exercising and with a little overweight i was still masculine, have quite a lot of body hair (not really too much but i can use some less IYKWIM) and i get pimples real soon (although i think that was because of my eating habits which off course could have raised testosterone). I ate meet twice a day (on whole wheat bread and during diner), never had a vegetarian day and i looooovvveeee eggs!

So GL keeping your bloodsugar stable and raising T, i'll bet that's the key for conceiving blue!

Hi girls, I'm new here, I've been reading you for some days and I think this site is awesome! I have two boys and now I no longer wonder why! I'm always eating, always snacking. I'm from Spain and we have a pretty healthy diet there. I always have breakfast with LOTS of cereal, sometimes I have them for dinner too. I usually drink two coffees a day, always put quite salt while cooking... I don't do any exercise...
I must add that I have PCOS, which I found out while ttc ds1. It took me 10 months to get pg, so the last two or three months we bd everyday around O. And for ds2 it was pretty much the same: same diet, same difficulties to get pg...
I can't think of anything else, if I do I'll let you know girls! And sorry for my English :worry:

Just thought I'd add my inadvertent boy "sway" in to the rest. Reading all the girl mom's lifestyles has been so helpful for me, so I'm happy to contribute to this fabulous forum in anyway I can.

I'm a fairly lean/petite build. I've always been pretty fortunate to be able to eat whatever I want and not gain a significant amount of weight and for most of my life I have done just that. I do eat (when not on my girls sway!) my fair share of unhealthy snacks, but for the most part I eat a fairly well balanced, healthy diet that is high in "good' calories. I had carefully planned conception (w/o swaying) of my son several months in advance, so I spent the months preceding his conception being as healthy as I could. My lifestyle was as follows:

Diet:
6 small meals a day (averaged 1800 to 2500 cals),
breakfast was usually egg whites and toast, 2 of the other meals usually contained cheese and/or protein bars, and then a large dinner w/ some kind of meat,seafood, and potato . We ate a lot of fortified grains including pasta noodles that were extra fortified, brown rice, quinoa, etc. My diet was extremely high in protein, pottassium, and sodium. I also drank A LOT of wine.

Exercise:
I exercised 3 to 4 times a week. about 30 min of cardio followed by 30 min of weight training.

Supplements:
I began taking folic acid w/ DHA 3 months prior to conception

Attempts:
We used Preseed, with no history of infertility. I am just a planner (typical boy mom!) and wanted to get preggo as fast as possible! - It seemed to work because I got pregnant our first month trying.
We planned a weekend away around my expected Ovulation and I O'd as planned. We BDed on o-3, 0-2, 0-1, O, and O+1, BIG O for me every time.

When I read this I realize that its no wonder I had a boy!

Hope this is helpful to some of you! Hope you get your baby Boys!

Hi guys,

I'm so amazed at all of the boy stories. I totally ooze "boy". I have 2 x DS's:

DS1: We had been married for about 3 months. I had lost a lot of weight for the wedding (BMI 18), but had started to gain over our 2 month honeymoon (up to BMI 21). Was under a lot of stress after a close family member had died. Always O'd. Was on the OCP, but forgot to take it twice due to stressful circumstance. Always very healthy diet. Lots of supps, moderate exercise - 3 days per week. Subtly competitive. I'm a natural worry wart. LOVE salt. Drank no coffee or caffeine, but am a herbal tea fanatic. Very sensitive to carbs. Always on a high protein diet. Completely avoided fizzy drinks, artificial sweeteners. Ate tonnes of veges, legumes, nuts, seeds, omega-3 oils.

DS-2 After gaining a ridiculous amount of weight with DS1, lost a heap of it on a high protein diet, was running 1 hr everyday, too lots of supps, green powders, was in a managerial role at work. Hate being hungry, always snacking on savoury health foods.

Other things, lots of boys in DH family. He's one of four boys, his sister has all boys, his brothers have boys and cousins are all boys. My Mother had 3 brothers. DH is super competitive, wears boxers, eats lots of meat and is on a computer 24/7

I'm naturally stocky, always working hard to keep weight down. Comfort eater when I'm stressed. Always EWCM++. Need lots of sleep. Always in bed by 10.

This is an awesome thread. Getting great ideas of what not to do to get a DD :-)