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September 13th, 2011, 04:39 AM
Zivic-Bubac

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Originally Posted by atomic sagebrush

but it's also luck in that you just so happen to decide to TTC in a month or series of years that the odds were stacked a certain way. Like if you only had children in your 30's, who knows what would have happened if you'd had a child at 18, 22, 25, 40?

You know, I often thing about that: what if I've had my babies in my 20's when my body was in better shape, would I have gotten my DG? Or is it the way it's meant to be, no matter what age- 2 girls for me?

It's interesting you brought that, I LOVE reading stuff like this and then torture myself with 'what if's' LOL!
September 13th, 2011, 06:19 AM
ELP

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Originally Posted by Zivic-Bubac

Lucky b****rds? :p

Well I am that lucky barnyard;):bigsmile:Love you ZB xxx
My first 6 children were pretty much 3 sets of PP.
:biggirl2: at 22 1st month off b/c
:bigboy: 18 month gap
:bigboy: 31 month gap
:biggirl2: 14 month gap mmc in between
:bigboy: 16 month gap
:biggirl2: 21 month gap moved house before conception, the year at the new house made me very lazy!
2 more girls since:)

Now!! I used to be very muscular, I was honestly naturally ripped and used to get commented on it, those were the days lol!! I think small things like change in hormones ie 1st month of long term b/c and a mmc altered what would have been boy territory for me to pink??? So without these 2 things I wouldn't have been surprised if I'd had 5 boys!

When we moved house away from the big hill with the double pushchair, to the flat lazy village with everything on your doorstep and bought a car, get it, queen lazy moved in! we then also lost our main work contract, meaning money became ridiculous with the bigger mortgage, so food was reduced to whatever was basic and cheap. I lost masses of body condition, so then became classic girl mum maybe, conceiving no's 6-8 all ladies. Now I've tried to alter these things physically and nutritionally, I may be back to boy mum.

So it may take something as simple as a slight shift in hormones threw an unknown mc or the level of b'c in your system to make the difference between what possibly could have been a classic boy/girl mum to PP mum!!
September 13th, 2011, 09:51 AM
zanacal

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Originally Posted by atomic sagebrush

Beyond luck, Y sperm apparently have some sort of major advantage which is why there are 140-160 boys conceived for every 100 girls. So many more boys are lost than girls are that the gender ratio at birth falls to 105-100. A woman whose body is ideally prepared for conception and maintaining pregnancy may in effect be upping her chances of blue. Because everyone's odds of conceiving blue are so much higher to begin with, if our bodies can carry those baby boys successfully, even if swaying to control conception is nothing but smoke and mirrors, than being very healthy and able to sustain pregnancy will sway blue just from a sheer statistical viewpoint.

This is the part I'm just not sure I can ever do enough to overcome. We make boys easily and I;ve had trouble free pregnancies so far (I hope that doesn't sound cocky or upsetting to mums ttc boy - obviously we're ttc girl and I'm envious of you!). It's fine, I know we've done our best to give my body a different message, but I keep coming back to this as the bottom line. Only time will tell I guess!
September 16th, 2011, 11:20 AM
atomic sagebrush

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Originally Posted by lobella2

I also have a pp but have always only wanted girls. Not much changed between my two pregnancies. I know I did eat more for breakfast with my son. I always had a waffle with peanut butter and syrup, but ate less with my daughter. However, I have never been one to skip breakfast. I think that I got her from low sperm count and a cutoff. She was an oops from a pull out days before ovulation. I conceived both in January and I was actually heavier when I conceived my daughter. I was actually really upset that I got pregnant with my daughter because I had plans to sway in June and so I thought I had ruined my chance of having a girl. I just got lucky.

Thank you, great info!
September 16th, 2011, 11:23 AM
atomic sagebrush

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Originally Posted by Zivic-Bubac

You know, I often thing about that: what if I've had my babies in my 20's when my body was in better shape, would I have gotten my DG? Or is it the way it's meant to be, no matter what age- 2 girls for me?

It's interesting you brought that, I LOVE reading stuff like this and then torture myself with 'what if's' LOL!

Don't torture yourself though! I think we ALL wonder that. I look at that 13 year age gap between DS 2 and 3 and it used to make me want to punch DH in the face. :/ Even though I do think I'm pretty strongly 'set' for boys, there was several years in there when I was in killer shape, weighed 115 lbs, worked out for 90 minutes a day and drank diet soda all day long...
September 16th, 2011, 11:27 AM
atomic sagebrush

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Originally Posted by ELP

Well I am that lucky barnyard;):bigsmile:Love you ZB xxx
My first 6 children were pretty much 3 sets of PP.
:biggirl2: at 22 1st month off b/c
:bigboy: 18 month gap
:bigboy: 31 month gap
:biggirl2: 14 month gap mmc in between
:bigboy: 16 month gap
:biggirl2: 21 month gap moved house before conception, the year at the new house made me very lazy!
2 more girls since:)

Now!! I used to be very muscular, I was honestly naturally ripped and used to get commented on it, those were the days lol!! I think small things like change in hormones ie 1st month of long term b/c and a mmc altered what would have been boy territory for me to pink??? So without these 2 things I wouldn't have been surprised if I'd had 5 boys!

When we moved house away from the big hill with the double pushchair, to the flat lazy village with everything on your doorstep and bought a car, get it, queen lazy moved in! we then also lost our main work contract, meaning money became ridiculous with the bigger mortgage, so food was reduced to whatever was basic and cheap. I lost masses of body condition, so then became classic girl mum maybe, conceiving no's 6-8 all ladies. Now I've tried to alter these things physically and nutritionally, I may be back to boy mum.

So it may take something as simple as a slight shift in hormones threw an unknown mc or the level of b'c in your system to make the difference between what possibly could have been a classic boy/girl mum to PP mum!!

That is a PERFECT illustration of exactly the kinds of small lifestyle changes that send big messages to our bodies! Thank you!

I have mentioned before a friend of mine that some of you know had a son and sadly lost him, then had 7 daughters in a row. Her last daughter was sort of a handful as an infant. Then she conceived another son and I do wonder if the bump in testosterone from her little firecracker helped her to conceive her little man.
September 16th, 2011, 11:30 AM
atomic sagebrush

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Originally Posted by zanacal

This is the part I'm just not sure I can ever do enough to overcome. We make boys easily and I;ve had trouble free pregnancies so far (I hope that doesn't sound cocky or upsetting to mums ttc boy - obviously we're ttc girl and I'm envious of you!). It's fine, I know we've done our best to give my body a different message, but I keep coming back to this as the bottom line. Only time will tell I guess!

I know. The thing is though that for those of us who can't/don't choose to go high tech, swaying is all we have! My thinking was, if I did nothing, I was in effect swaying blue just because my lifestyle/personality was blue-friendly to begin with. Even if swaying only got me to 50-50 I would take the flip of the coin at that point.
September 16th, 2011, 11:38 AM
DoulaMama

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Originally Posted by atomic sagebrush

That is a PERFECT illustration of exactly the kinds of small lifestyle changes that send big messages to our bodies! Thank you!

I have mentioned before a friend of mine that some of you know had a son and sadly lost him, then had 7 daughters in a row. Her last daughter was sort of a handful as an infant. Then she conceived another son and I do wonder if the bump in testosterone from her little firecracker helped her to conceive her little man.

Yup....I'm never having a daughter..... :rofl: I have WAY too much T for a girl. My kids are go go go all day and I yell more often than not. My 3yo red haired devil child(;)) brings out so much of my T it's insane! Sigh.....time to go look for boy names! LOL!
September 16th, 2011, 11:45 AM
atomic sagebrush

But remember, most of us will have an opposite at least once even if we don't do anything any different at all.

PS - I have one of those too and he is also 3 years old. He was like this from the moment of his birth - he cried for 3 hours in the hospital because he was mad that my milk wasn't in yet!!! o.O
September 16th, 2011, 09:23 PM
queen-of-harts

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Originally Posted by atomic sagebrush

But remember, most of us will have an opposite at least once even if we don't do anything any different at all.

PS - I have one of those too and he is also 3 years old. He was like this from the moment of his birth - he cried for 3 hours in the hospital because he was mad that my milk wasn't in yet!!! o.O

This is my 15 month old....he has been demanding and crabby since day one,never wants to sleep during the day and is just full of piss and vinagar lol i tell dh i need to go on vacation by myself for a month and he can Fedex his sperm to me.Either that or im just gonna drink hard liquer so im too tipsy to get stressed out lol

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