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I LOVE THIS THREAD!!!! I contributed to HOw to make boys..and whoa it is crazy the differences in boy and girl mom diets...I AM feeling so much better about Oing early...we planned on BDing through O, but I wasn't prepared...after reading this...maybe my diet will carry us through...PLEASE GOD!!!!!:ttcgirl:
Four, I missed your follow up q's the first time thru and will answer tomorrow when I have a bit more time.
never be shy about shooting me a PM with a link to a thread I need to answer!! I answer a lot of q's some days and sometimes click on a thread to answer and then get interrupted before I get to it. So then the thread is no longer lit up and I think I've answered it. I'll always answer every thread, so if you've ever asked q's on a thread and it seems like I'm ignoring you, either bump it or send me a PM, because it's an oversight. I appreciate it!
AS, I kinda have a handle on those questions I asked. I feel like I'm bombarding you with Qs anyway! I'll keep in mind about the PM.
my main thought is the best options for a diet with PCOS...never seemed to care much about it before. i guess i was sorta happy i didn't have the 'weight gain, acne, or facial hair' symptoms...so I didn't care to control it.
But now it seems much more important!! ha! :)
Thanks again!
hi everyone im new here this thread is great and very useful! im definately goiing to be trying the LE diet :) :) xxxx
I wish I could've dieted better because I'm feeling that oh no I did everything wrong pressure but if I have a boy I'm fine with it. I've always wanted 2 girls and a boy in that order but if I'm having a boy now I hope I have 2 girls later on I just can't explain how bad I wanted my boy to be the baby but at least next time I will be way more strict on the LE diet. On the plus side I lost a lot of weight before conceiving. And after a year plus TTC I'm finally gonna be a mommy :tissue:
When my DD was concieved i was already thin. I did yoga and weights everyday and walked my dog everyday for about 45mins. I would have a cup of coffee for breakfast and didnt really drink anything except water through the day and then at night i would have a couple of beers. As for food i was just a picker if my stomach would really growl at me i would know it was time to eat something usually a chunk of cheese or a packet of chips. Dinner was my main meal and i would just have whatever i wanted like sushi, take away burgers, frozen dinners, lasagne, fish, just whatever was convienient. I didnt especially like salads or vegitables and now that i think about it i didnt really eat fruit either, most of my snacky foods came out of packets. I took a prenatal for 1 month prior to conception and we concieved her 1st month trying. We DTD every second day for the whole month, and i didnt need any lubrication. Oh and probably should mention my DP and I both smoked.
Hi Everyone - thought I would put add my experience for what its worth.
Love having the boy moms help us 'TTC boys' out so very glad to be able to do that for you TTC girls!
both DD's were conceived right over O! But, I have never had much moisture, and so at least one of them was with the help of some KY - if not both.
DD2 was actually a failed boy sway. So I actually am not sure how much 'poistion' helps - if you know what I mean ;-)
I rarely ate breakfast, and DH is also very bad - almost never ever eats breakfast either - in fact, before starting the HE diet, his first meal could easily have been after lunch! He is also eats not a big fruit or veg person at all. I will admit that I too was not very healthy with snacks and my healthiest meal was definitely dinner - mostly meat and 2 veg, but generally, like Cinss, my snacks came out of packets. Not very nutricious! I also only took a pre-natal multivitamin for the month that we were trying - both DDs were conceived pretty quickly. I was not on any multi vit before the prenatal, nor on any supplements. I suck at drinking water too, so no shock as to why I struggled with dryness!
What is Vitex ? Sorry to interupt your post
This is so helpful! I think I'm sold on LE diet. That will be the hardest part for me since I'm super underweight as it is. But I'll do anything to get a DD. I noticed a lot of you mom's of girls ran as your form of exercise. Any other cardio ideas? I'm going to post on the mom's with son's board because this has been so helpful. So I want to help you ladies who are ttc boys! Sending you all the positive blue energy that I can!
Also, what about alcohol consumption? Were any of you guys drinking much when you conceived your dd's? I don't drink at all, so maybe that's one thing I need to change!
http://genderdreaming.com/forum/ttc-...nces-here.htmlQuote:
Originally Posted by Mum23boys
Drinking alcohol was one thing I did diff. between my boys (none) and my girl. http://genderdreaming.com/forum/gend...ways-pink.htmlQuote:
Originally Posted by LimeRikki
Exercise is found here: http://genderdreaming.com/forum/gend...h-genders.html
Thanks, atomic. I'm checking out the links now!Quote:
Originally Posted by atomic sagebrush
Girls, only discovered this site in the last couple of days. This thread is amazing, thank you all so much for posting. As a mum to 2 boys I'll post my story on the other thread but it's the opposite to most of your stories really. Great site, thanks again!
I second Peachy, I'm also a mom to two boys and this has been really awesome. I'll go post on the TTC boys too. Thanks again!
When I conceived my DD... I ate breakfast every morning, but it was usually unhealthy sugary cereal. Then I didn't eat anything until lunch which was usually a sandwhich in white bread or ramen. We ate fast food a lot. I never really ate fruits and veggies. I ate tons of sweets. I love snack cakes and ice cream. I drank lots of diet soda. I was also walking on the treadmill occasionally because I was trying to lose weight before I got pregnant. We also DTD on O in doggy style position because I was trying to sway, but only new about timing and deep penetration (sorry for TMI). DH never really ate breakfast and ate similar to me for lunch and dinner. He was driving truck at the time and didn't get a lot of exercise. HTH :)
Thanks for sharing your secrets! I am new here and hoping to give my son the baby sister he asked for!
Thanks for sharing Ladies! I have 6boys so this is very helpful info! If anyone ever need advice in that area please feel free to contact me! thanks again!
Hi all!
Im new here also and have two lovely little ladies! I have never really thought about my eating patterns when conceiving them until reading your post so Ill try and gather as much helpful info as possible!
DD1-I was 18 when she was concieved, after a night of drinking with my bf (now DH). I had just gotten off BCP as we were actually not together at the time, therefor we had both refrained from BD. It was a one time thing probably pretty close to O..all I knew about O then was that it usually happened two weeks before your next period. Now I know I have 33 day cycles and it was probably a few days before O. Diet was likely not good. I was a firefighter over the summer (she was concieved in Oct) and was not able to eat a lot of regular meals..probably drank more beer then I should have too!
DD2-I believe she was also conceived before O. I was spotty with BCP but I dont believe I was on any before TTC. I had just gotten married prior to TTC so I had been eating lightly trying to loose a little weight for that. Probably didnt BD more then once a week. I have always been slender and have done light cardio on and off, never lifted weights.
With both girls I was big on cereal, when I ate breakfast or maybe just a cup of yougurt or bagel with cream cheese. Both were concieved at night, girl on top position. I never noticed any EWCM and could never understand how some women knew when they O just by CM, so i know i didnt have much. Never took vitamins or drank pop or coffee, always drank milk with dinner, average meat consumption. I never ate a real consistant diet of anything that I can remember. Lots of cheetos and sweets!! DH usually doesnt eat breakfast and eats junk for lunch and meat and potatoes for dinner. Pretty junky diet and drank quite a bit of beer then, and pop and energy drinks. Also takes hot baths..strange I know lol...and chewed Copenhagen..he doesnt now so would be interesting to see if that helps with a boy since he eats a lot more since quiting!
With DD1 i was eating a lot of milkshakes strawberries, cookies, milk, yogurt you name it we bd thru o from af to three days after o.
Wit DD2 i ate about the same pasta with alfredo sauce, cheese i love cheese, ice creams, cookies, milk, chocolate a lot of chicken no red meat bd 3 days before O.
With DD3 the exact same diet with a cutt off 2 days before O.
This time i will make the sway of the swater all the opposite and i started on the Boy diet since July12 my attemps is for july 13 God willing. i will take all that blue dust yall boys mamas!! Thanks !!!
There is a comparable thread in the Blue forum so any ladies who have a spare sec, pop over and add your story to the rest!!Quote:
Originally Posted by 6bluewant1pink
this is very good information. I want to thank everyone who is posting. Send us all the pink baby dust that you can. :)
Wow, after reading all this I'm completely shocked that I'm having another boy. I did pretty much everything here just as my normal routine...I guess natural pink swaying won't work for me. :(
Don't forget, Vitamin L is the most important thing of all - LUCK. Even if swaying was 80%, there would still be 20% opposites.Quote:
Originally Posted by sbowman
Wow, this is priceless! I'm going to bookmark it!
Bump. Keep them coming ladies!
Did they take vitex af-af or af-ov??Quote:
Originally Posted by atomic sagebrush
Both the posters I was talking about took vitex af-af for many months (not sure about MD but I know Arabeth was TTC for 8 months) and did not get pg. Both got pg the month they stopped the vitex, MD with the soy and Arabeth with the Clomid.Quote:
Originally Posted by fairyfrog
Vitex used to be used as a birth control pill back in the Middle Ages and it seems like it is pretty darn effective for some people when taken all month long.
I thought i would add mine in here too.. well when i conceived my DD i was the thinnest i have ever been as i was constantly conscious about exercising. I would do cardio for 2miles every other day sometimes weights and pilates.. I never hardly had fruit or veg maybe once in a while or 1 or twice in a week. I was drinking ALOT of cranberry. My diet did include most stuff but i would starve myself then eat or I mostly only ate once or twice in the day i was at that point where i enjoyed feeling hungry!
.. and if i I was eating i would indulge bready stuff ( yes Im a Bread girl!!) My DH and I were living apart at the time so when i came over to the states it was almos like DTD every day!! and thats when i concieved my DD that same month we decided to not use any protections i do remember we sometimes us KY lubricant.. However im not sure if i reached big O' when DTD sometimes i did or didnt... and almos every time i had DTD i would either stand up lol or go bathroom ..( always seen the lil swimmers floating in the toilet lol)..I never took any vitamins or minerals.. and my skin wasnt in good shape either mainly due to lack of vitamins etc..
I hope it helps those who are swaying pink feel free to ask questions!! xx
When i concieved my girls i never ate breakfast........hardly ever lunch either mainly just an evening meal
Ate chicken lots(dont like other meats except sausasge+bacon)
3 of my girls were shettles timing(for a boy) so dont put much stock into that personally
Im actually pretty big on salt which is one thing that surprised me but when i swayed boy i switched from regular table salt to sea salt(so maybe table salt is not as boy friendly??)
Lots of fizzy drinks with most of my girls
And i never had EWCM with the girls xx
I don't buy the "salt sways blue" bizness and got my girl with both dh and i eating lots of salt after a failed IG sway where I was avoiding it.
^^I don't either. Restricting salt was not a huge part of my sway and we are getting pink. My sway only really included five aspects: low blood sugar, breastfeeding, sleeping like CRAP (baby liked to nurse all.night.long), refresh, and DH using licorice root/antihistamines. When it came down to it...those were the biggest differences between our girl conception and our boys. Sure, there were little other things that may have factored in (the possiblity of getting sick that week, using LE diet principles of "low nutrients," losing weight rapidly before conception). But I do think the biggest factors were what I listed. Timing, positioning, cutting out salt, adding calcium, having an orgasm or not didn't seem to matter at all. But...I mighta just been "lucky" and gotten pink no matter what I did or didn't do. Compared to some sways, mine was very mild.
This is a great thread! I have four girls and noticed something I never had before. I seem to naturally eat for " pink" so that all makes scence to me. What was intresting to me is the exersize and weight loss comments .
I have always had lean muscle but never skinny.
DD1- I was working full time in retail ,so I was very active.
DD2 - I was teaching dance and very active loosing weight.
DD3- I did loose ten pounds on a crash diet.
DD4- I was again trying to loose weight.
Very intresting!
Looks like I better get to the gym!!! I sure am eating for a pink sway ...the only exersize I'm getting is from chowing lol!!
AAA did I know that already?? Huge congrats!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by hotdogz&boyz
This is great!
I am so in awe of the ladies that naturally ate a girl diet. I hate feeling hungry all the time and skipping breakfast makes me SO moody!
Keep them coming ladies, the more we have the more we can understand and draw parallels.
I noticed the same thing many of you have, that I 'naturally' followed quite a blue pattern of eating without thinking about it. I really believe diet sways more than any other factor.
Hi ladies,
We actually just found out we are having a girl...our first baby! We actually did Shettles for a BOY! So another opposite!!! We thought timing was so important...we did not focus much on our diets.
We own two separate businesses and both work full time. Stress level was average considering. Hubby smokes MJ to help with his very bad back problems! (only once a day, away from our home. he does physical labor so it helps him!) This reduces fertility, which I knew, but I did not know it sways pink! But it makes sense to me now! Neither of us drink alcohol or smoke cigs. Our diet was always Nothing in Excess. Hardly ate out, maybe once or twice a month. I would always cook at home. I would watch our salt intake, red meat about once a week. Hardly any potatoes. We would have chicken, turkey and and some vegetables more than anything. White rice. Salads and sandwiches. Sometimes pasta with meat and tomatoes, mostly ground turkey. Plus, I would ALWAYS skip breakfast, and would be starving by 1130am when I finally ate something! I would only have about a half a cup of coffee and black tea on weekends. Sometimes sodas, maybe once or twice a week. Only eat eggs on weekend mornings. I did have cereal though, maybe three times a week before bed. Neither of us worked out much, MAYBE once every two weeks! We watched what we ate instead. Both of us are pretty slim.
By the way, we one dtd once, 19 hours after getting a +OPK. I was only taking prenatal vitamins.
I know our habits were not great for making a boy! We are hoping to change that once our little pumpkin arrives!
All in all, I suppose it was a girl friendly diet!
Good luck everyone!
Also I thought I should mention that we don't have sex that often. He works until real late and we're always busy. We're more of the cuddle type couple! Not sure if that matters...but it seems like the boy moms have sex all the time!
thanks for sharing! congrats on your girl!! The first child for a couple is so special!!!
I see you only DTD once, can I ask you if you did abstinence or frequent release? thanks
oh, sorry, you have already added it! congrats again!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by mrsellis127