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I am new to swaying pink but I had a question about my copper IUD. I thought that I read somewhere that the Mirena sways pink but does the copper IUD? I haven't taken it out yet as I am waiting to start the diet. Just curious how the IUDs sway. Thanks!
I lurked these boards and read up on everything when we were TTC. I am currently (almost) 14 weeks pregnant and we found out via NIPT that this baby is a healthy baby girl.
I did sway pretty hard for 6 months. I cut out breakfast, I am thin to start with so I didn't want to go crazy with the diet, but I did try to do a LE diet. I cut out potatoes and tomatoes and didn't eat things with a lot of salt. When I got routine bloodwork done, I found out that I was border-line vitamin D deficient, so I was take a vitamin d pill every other day. I wasn't taking any type of multivitamin, but since I did have short cycles, I was taking a vitamin b-complex with vitamin c to help lengthen my LP.
For the first 6 months I was using rephresh and really only dtd once in my fertile window.
We weren't getting pregnant, and I was getting impatient and getting my period was depressing me every month. So during the 7th month of TTC I cut out the rephresh and I started to eat a small breakfast. I either had a bowl of strawberries or toast with almond butter. I never eat red meat, so we pretty much ate vegetarian. My husband rarely eats red meat as well, since we don't cook it in this house. So it was more like a modified diet.
I didn't exercise. I was just starting work again (I'm a teacher), so I wasn't getting as much sleep as I was during the summer. Also, since I was starting work back up, I wasn't as obsessed with TTC.
The month that we got pregnant we pretty much DTD every day in my fertile window, it was a good 5 days in a row. I didn't jump and dump. We always DTD missionary.
After I found out I was pregnant I looked at my biorhythms for when I ovulated and it leaned girl. we were in the period between new moon and full moon (which I read sways girl).
That's about it. I can't think of anything else. I was ecstatic when we found out that this little one was a girl though!
ETA: I was taking baby aspirin every morning as well and did not orgasm. I also remember reading somewhere that sleeping on your left swayed girl, so I was purposely sleeping on my left. For fun I had a girl outfit under the bed as well, but I don't know if that had anything to do with it.
We don't know for sure, we are operating under the assumption that even the copper ones sway pink but we don't have quite enough data to know for sure.Quote:
Originally Posted by amandaj001
I had never heard of or believed in swaying up until last year so i was not tracking ovulation. I always assumed based on average cycle lengths as to my most likely O date. I was in residency training so looooong hours, stress, sleepless nights never time to eat. Always had breakfast but would skip lunches and dinners regularly. Lived on low calorie snack and carbs mostly. Very little protein. No exercise. Zero muscle mass. Loosing weight by the day. Anemic. And no supplements.
Since hubby and i barely got to see each other (he was a resident too and we would be doing opposite days and night shifts) we only managed one attempt closest to what i felt was my O date. And we had long periods of abstence inbetween bcoz of crazy work life.
The copper IUD is shown to raise estrogen levels toward estrogen dominance and decrease progesterone receptibily so I would assume it sways blue based on that.
We are not finding that the whole estrogen/progesterone notion is at all reliable for swaying purposes. We are getting stellar results with things like coffee and alcohol for swaying pink despite their supposed contributions to estrogen dominance and also have TONS of people getting girls with perilously short LP's so I find this to no longer be plausible, at least the way it's said to work on some swaying sites.Quote:
Originally Posted by BunnyGirl19
What we need to remember, when researching swaying, is that a lot of what we used to believe was swaying was only theoretical. Theoretical with little to no data to back it up at all, and people start getting SO focused on chasing the theoretical reasons that they lose sight of doing what is actually WORKING. We don't KNOW that high estrogen, low progesterone sways blue. It was one theory with very sparse evidence backing it up. So don't get so focused on chasing that hormonal profile that one ends up missing the forest for the trees. :)
True. I got my daughter when I was drinking a lot of coffee and alcohol also. LOLQuote:
Originally Posted by atomic sagebrush
I would guess copper IUDs sway very mildly pink for the first month or two after removal. Definitely much less of an effect than the hormonal IUDs IMO. FWIW, I conceived B/G twins two cycles after removing my copper IUD, but one was ectopic so I miscarried both. I don't believe the EP was due to the IUD as it was ovarian, the egg never fully detached from my ovary, supposedly.
Any PCOS moms out there that swayed pink and conceived a girl? Or that conceived girls naturally?
Yes we've gotten good results with PCOSers, we'd see what needed to be tweaked, Luv.