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Timing isnt everything and I am proff of this too.
DD1 - concieved without swaying... maybe dtd every 3-4 days. And looking at dates I O'd on the weekend and I always dtd on the weekend when our work schedules were better. I wasnt so keen on getting pregnant that month so didnt push the issue. I was on a very low calorie diet back then and drank diet coke and exercised everyday.
DS- We tried and tried for months. Every dayfrom AF including ovulation day But we couldnt concieve. I changed my diet so I could just get pregnant and stopped exercising. I started chinese medicine and accupunture and used preseed that month and dtd 4 days in a row throughout ovulation.
DD2- I swayed using the A-gender Diet. ( similar to Gender dreaming.) I used Sylk as lube but had been planning on doing 7 days abstinence with a cut off but my DH and I had a fight and he changed his mind for a few days about having a 3rd child. we made up thankfully and I panicked that my ovulation was coming early and I wasnt sure if I'd have DH on board again for a 3rd next month, so after only 5 days abstinence we DTD, then again the next day before I got my +OPK. I had 42 hours cut off , I also did accupunture on O day and I honestly didnt think I'd get pregnant this month. it was our 3rd month trying. But then I got my positive pregnancy test and panicked that I would have a failed sway.
well, 4 ultrasounds later ( because I'm obsessed) I am concinved I am having a baby girl. and if its not, baby has some serious explaining to do, because they are good pictures.
So I believe timing is not everything. I often look at people in the streets and analyse what timing they did when they conceived their daughters or sons. Its crazy.... But I think it makes more sense to look at what people were eating rather that just timing alone. You cant assume that everyone who has Boys DTD on ovulation day, or everyone who has girls did frequent BDing with a cut off or abstinence with a cut off.
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Thanks to the "magic" of Fertility Friend -- :) -- I can account for all my babydancing and ovulations.
For DS1, we DTD on cycle days 4, 6, 8, 9, 11, 13, 14, 15 and 16 -- I ovulated on cycle day 15.
For DS2, we DTD on cycle days 15, 17, 19 and 21 -- I ovulated on cycle day 20. (That was a really weird cycle and I had light bleeding on days 12-14, which made Fertility Friend start a new chart for me ... but I seriously doubt I had an anovulatory cycle of only 11 days, followed by a cycle in which I Oed on day 9, seeing as how the earliest I've ever seen myself ovulate is day 13 and it has been as late as day 20 ... so I can't explain that bleeding, but I stick with my opinion that day 20 was O day.)
Wow, having read about how the different types of frequency affect swaying, geesh, could I have been unintentionally swaying any bluer, esp. for DS2? And even for DS1, we definitely skipped enough days here and there that it was certainly not FR.
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Drama, that is pretty close to what a lot of us do when we conceive boys! I talk to a lot of gals on here who tell me, "I know that FR can't work because we DTD every other day and got boys!" Um, that's not FR! :)
I wasn't sure if it was on this thread but I did want to post my "trouble with timing" essay for those who have not seen it - indepth explanation of how timing simply cannot be true. http://genderdreaming.com/forum/gend...le-timing.html
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Drama, that is pretty close to what a lot of us do when we conceive boys! I talk to a lot of gals on here who tell me, "I know that FR can't work because we DTD every other day and got boys!" Um, that's not FR! :)
I wasn't sure if it was on this thread but I did want to post my "trouble with timing" essay for those who have not seen it - indepth explanation of how timing simply cannot be true. http://genderdreaming.com/forum/gend...le-timing.html
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hey hobbers congrats!!! exciting news about BFP. i agree with everyone here about timing, even tho i dont know the gender of mine yet. but i am happy to hear that those with boys have dtd's many days in a row. we bd'd 5-6 days in a row for both our girls. and altho atomic and everyone says thats not frequent release enough, thats what i DIDNT want to do, but i ended up doing it like every 3 days except since i had a late ovulation for this pg, i ended up doing it 2wice as soon as i got +OPK (noon and night), and then one more time 24 hrs later (the next day).
i dont know what sperm made it there (from what day) but im glad im finally pg, i couldnt handle being onthat diet anymore. i mean idid like the meat in the morning thing but eating every 2 freaking hrs dude, come on. i barely had time to breathe.
such a girl eater i am.
so i dont think timing is ANYTHING really. your dh seems like his sperm count is normal (since you have 3 kids and you got pg jusyt now) so i dont think timing for you guys is a big deal..good lcuk!
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Thanks gizmo! I think I O'ed early, which bums be out because we had planned to DTD 4 times this cycle, and if I O'ed early, we only got in 2 attempts before then. :( I guess it worked to get my pregnant, but I really wanted to "fill the crypts". If I had known I was going to O so early I would have DTD more days in a row than we did.
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With both of my boys I didn't track ovulation but we pretty much BD'ed every other day. i think that gave DH higher sperm count!
