What is that???? Like accupuncture?
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What is that???? Like accupuncture?
Yes, she did the moxibustion along with accupuncture. It was just on a thicker needle and the cone burned for 20 minutes or so, but the needle remained in through the rest of the session along with the acupuncture needles.Quote:
Originally Posted by LolaInLove
Ok, gotcha.....I think my acupuncturist mentioned that to me once. (I only went for 4 sessions, too expensive and she wanted me to stop ttc for 6 months while the "therapy" took effect. Not happening at 35yo, LOL.)Quote:
Originally Posted by Demeter
First two boys were conceived while I was a vegetarian (although I didn't eat terribly healthily), I ate a ton of cereal and drank a lot of coffee. DS1 was an oops, DS2 was planned (girl sway). W/ ds2, I was taking Vitex, Cal/Mag, cranberry, acidopholus. With both, frequent bd (almost everyday). Since DS1 wasn't planned, I don't know when I Od or anything, and I had my O date wrong with ds2, so not sure when they were conceived (Ds1 was conceived in May and DS2 in June).
DS3 was not planned - I missed a week of bcp. At that time I was student teaching, so I was stressed out, got little sleep, and had just finished bfing ds2. I had just lost a lot of weight. I was eating less cereal then - I mostly ate breakfast sandwiches at school (although I was still eating a bowl of cereal at night). Still drinking a lot of coffee. Oh, and I was no longer a vegetarian. Not sure when he was conceived in relation to O - it was in March, though.
With all three, I was taking Allegra for allergies. I also hate artificial sweeteners, so I rarely used them. I really think our tendency towards boys is genetic - I know that's been disproven, but dh's family is very boy-heavy, and I have 4 nephews and no nieces.
Wow, Jennasue, that is very interesting! Maybe you are right about the genetic disposition to boys, but here's to hoping your next is a pink caboose. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks! I also think maybe the frequent bd has something to do with it, since that's been a constant with all three boys. I don't think I can talk my dh into abstaining for this one though.Quote:
Originally Posted by LolaInLove
Good luck to you, too!
When I got DS we were BDing almost every day, maybe every other. He was a 5 day cut off (we weren't trying, I just O'ed early). I was doing moderate exercise, including weights. I always ate a big breakfast and was really healthy in my eating habits. Conceived in October, chinese gender calendar was right on. Full moon phase, orange juice, lots of snacking
Lola- yes, it worked for me and several other ladies I mentioned it to on IG a while ago. I will bear in mind what atomic said though and not make it too hot.
RE 4 nephews and no nieces...in my family, we have 7 b and 1 g cousins BUT the problem is that some of those people are not even genetically related to each other (one is adopted and another is a "kissing" cousin.) And the one with the girl IS genetically related to others with all boys!! I know it's hard to believe, but it really can be simple coincidence.
Hi girls, thought I would add in my tuppence worth here.
I have 2 boys and swayed for neither - didn't even know it existed!!
DS1 - He was conceived about the time I got married!! We decided to stop being careful as we got married and would see what happened. I had lost a load of weight partly through wedding stress and by eating smaller portions but I think I had probably relaxed that as the wedding day approached! We DTD once before the wedding unprotected then quite frequently from wedding night onwards. I suspect I O on the day we got married! I always propped my hips afterwards and never J&D. Anyway, I came home from my honeymoon pregnant!
DS2 - We decided to TTC again and we DTD every day/other day between the end of AF and O and fell the first month of trying. Again, I always propped my hips and never J&D.
My diet for both of them was similar in that we would eat red meat (mince beef) probably twice a week. would often eat prepared food (chicken kiev, breaded cod etc). I always ate breakfast - usually porridge. With DS1, often ate WW soup for lunch which is quite high in salt and probably sandwiches with DS2. I always drank tea with both (3-4 cups a day) and would have wine most friday and saturday nights (not to excess, just a couple of glasses expect on my wedding night where i was quite drunk!!). I never took a vitamin and with DS1 didn't even start folic acid until I knew I was pregnant!
Hope that helps someone and my blue dust is free to a good home......
Good luck xx
Can't remember if i already posted here...
I have two boys. With my oldest, I didn't really know about TTC so we just used saliva as lube (sorry way TMI). I was skinny at the time. 5'7" and weighed 110. But I was young (19) so that was just normal for me. I hadn't lost or gained weight really. I can't remember what I was eating but I remember at that age eating a lot of crap. Like Taco Bell, etc. LOL. I also smoked when I conceived, but quit as soon as I found out I was pregnant. Oh, at that age I was going out drinking alot too. I was also taking a daily women's multivitamin. Again, quit when I got pregnant. :)
Second boy was 5 years later. I was probably about 120 or so at that point, so still thin. Can't remember what I was eating but I was faithfully taking a prenatal since we were purposefully TTC. It was taking a while so I bought some Preseed and OPK's. BDed 3 nights in a row when I got my positive OPK. Also used Preseed. It did the trick because I got pregnant that month. :)
I wanted girls both times SO BAD! But they are sweet and I love my boys to death. :HH:
When I look back to ttc our boys, alot of the things we did were what we would do if we were swaying for boys. I didn't realise it at the time, I just wanted to maximise our chances of getting pregnant.
On DS1 I was on a health diet, I had eliminated dairy and wheat flour, was eating soda bread made with spelt flour and drinking soya milk.
We were using Preseed.
I was temping and using opks, bding all the way through O.
I was slim but a stable healthy weight, hadn't lost or gained any.
Taking evening primrose oil, fish oil and vitex.
And too much information here, but deep penetration, doggy style, orgasm during and after bd.
With DS2
Was breastfeeding a 20 month old.
Was underweight, and had lost quite alot over the preceding months.
Used a lubricant called conceive plus
Was taking Maca
Temps, OPKs, Bd all the way through O
Same again with deep penetration and orgasm during and after.
Pangea- thank you for sharing.. have a question about Maca...what is that for? I have heard that before but never really understood what that is for during TTC. You said you had eliminated dairy but why wheat flour? Were you swaying with any of your boys?
Maca is a fertility food from South America that is supposed to be very good for improving fertility. For right now, it's kind of an unknown with swaying, but pretty much everything that are good for fertility tend to sway blue.
I'm not Pangaea obviously but a lot of people go onto health-conscious diets where they avoid dairy and wheat products because they are inflammatory and common allergens. So she may not have been swaying, just avoiding those things for overall health benefits.
Loving this! I'll add my info as well:
I salt and butter everything. We eat a diet high in meat (3 x daily) red, chicken, pork. NO MILK EVERRRR. I HATE it. Lots of coffee, diet drinks, and sweets (love cakes and cookies). We used Pre-seed with DS1 and DS2. TONS of EWCM as I took care to get pg ASAP (tons of water, and vitamens, esp. b complex to lenghtne my short luteal phase).
Moderate excercise, usually gained a few pounds while TTC b/c I was like "well, why not gain a few...I'll be pg. soon anyway!) (no idea about swaying).
Had two losses before DS3, and just wanted another baby, so didn't evven research swaying.
Moderately stressed, but not too bad. Laptop on my lap all the time. Always snacked late at night.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if the 3 little ones I lost were all boys as well.....I'm so boy friendly it's not even funny. Naturally very high PH as well, with lots of bacterial vag. infections.
My family has a TON of boys as well.....I think it's the whole "you are what your mother eats theory"....we all eat the same, pass down the same recipes, etc. I think our taste buds have adapted to salty meats, sweets, etc. and therefore we all tend to have boys.
I am SO confident that I'll have a girl next, I'd put money on it. I'm already making small changes in my diet now and will continue to do so until we TTC in March or April.
Good luck ladies!!!!
Thanks Atomic!Quote:
Originally Posted by atomic sagebrush
love your betty white quote! and the 1st one too!Quote:
Originally Posted by KnockYourBallsOff
Hi all, I'm new here, but thought i'd chime in:
Have two boys, and with DS1 I was on a health kick and was taking fish oil supps and working out moderately, lost about 10 lbs in a month (nothing fancy, or crazy) eating lots of fish sauteed in olive oil and lemon, eating tons of chocolate still (I used to work in a drugstore and was hard to say no), at the computer a lot, had sex one time on O day itself, loved salty foods, lots of bananas, dried apricots, milk, every morning had oatmeal with milk, ice cream, pasta with tomato sauce, etc
DS2 --> Losing moderate weight again, lots of beef, and olives, etc and similiar diet to before. I was in grad school online at the time and had the laptop on my lap ALL THE TIME! Two big O's with DS2, haha.
Both boys were accident one-shot wonders directly on O day!
Hoping maybe planning will help wtih having a girl :)
Its funny now that i am on the boy diet all i crave is ice cream, i didn't eat it heaps before the diet, just because i read somewhere i should restrict dairy its all i can think about late at night, so thanks for sharing auroara, i wont feel so bad now if i do give in to my craving once in a while.Quote:
Originally Posted by auroara78
I am new to this but I have 4 girls and ttc a boy. Need help please! what should I do and shouldn't do. Thanks for any help
HI! Pop over to the ttc boy forum and start reading away. You will find it helpful to gather all the info first and then join some threads and ask away.Quote:
Originally Posted by trich1219
Boy mamas: thank you so much for sharing your stories!!!
Auroara - thank you for sharing... I was wondering how you were able to DTD on O by accident? Were you tracking O? The reason I am asking is I am having hard time pinpointing my O using OPKs and temps even with pretty regular cycles. Whatever you did worked great.. may be just do the opposite to get a baby girl.... which is what I am going to do :)Quote:
Originally Posted by auroara78
I def. think you should, I ate tons of dairy with all four of mine!! your body is trying to tell you something.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cinss
Here is a good place to start and then let me know what other questions you have.Quote:
Originally Posted by trich1219
http://genderdreaming.com/forum/show...your-blue-sway
I very much believe that cravings are your body's way of getting a nutrient you are low on in the old gullet.Quote:
Originally Posted by atomic sagebrush
So you think ice cream would be good for a boy sway? That would be bloody fantastic!Quote:
Originally Posted by atomic sagebrush
As much as full fat dairy is good for the sway.. i wouldn't indulge in ice cream because of the sugars and blood sugar ups/downs...Quote:
Originally Posted by Bec
I ate it with 3 of my four, that's all I know! Several times a week.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bec
As long as you're getting some protein along with your sweets, (ice cream does have protein, 6 g per cup) your blood sugar neither rises too high or drops too suddenly. Might be best to have it as a dessert with a dinner rather than a meal by itself tho.Quote:
Originally Posted by melon
With first DS i was underweight but had gained a few pounds i was a smoker then and ate a lot of meat and pasta and tomatoes sandwiches with turkey meat canned tuna with salt and oil,diet coke too much coffee and cheese..
second Ds was 10 pounds overweight ate alot of salt meat potatoes tomatoes cheese pizza motherinlaws greasy cooking coffee gatoraide sprite Dh always drank gatoraide and Redbulls .and with both i had always lots of ewcm and first ds dtd every day or more leading up to and on o day for a week!Second Ds dtd one time on o day.
Oh and every night chocolate and a glass of wine or 2 :)
Melon,Quote:
Originally Posted by melon
I had a ton of EWCM but my husband pulled out so I thought "Oh I won't get pregnant"...I was feeling very frisky, (I jumped him, my hubby has a low sex drive), and then at my 6 week ultrasound, they confirmed it by telling me he was concieved on Aug 7 2010 and that one TIME I jumped my husband (our afternoon delight) was the only time that it could've been, and I remembered the EWCM then, and how interested I was in getting some loving!!!
For all the other ladies, I am an ice cream freak. I am a dairy freak, I have 2 boys.....while I do love salty food, potatoes, bananas, etc, all those other foods classically deemed "boy foods", I already love dairy and consume it on a daily basis, that's why consuming a lot of dairy on the IG diet was a bit shocking to me. However, after trying to consume the amounts of dairy on IG (yogurt, tons of milk) I rethought it, and decided that yes, I enjoyed dairy but I was not completely possessed by it, LOL.
nice post auroara! interesting about your attempt with your ds!! total "girl" BD style!
Auroara, I was thinking about this the other day and if anything, I think I ate LESS dairy on the IG Diet LOL! I just couldn't eat as much dairy without going over my limits for sodium and potassium!
Please no one tell me "that's why your sway failed" because I also took tons of cal, mag, Vit. D, and I am kidding anyway. :)
Any boys mums DTD everyday?
We DTD a LOT when we were trying with DS 2 and 3 especially, but not every day.
We didn't DTD every day but DH very likely released himself on the days when we didn't.
we DTD everyday when I conceived ds1!
i have a friend who dtd'd 3 times in one day and got a boy. her first was a girl.
With the first two boys yes!Quote:
Originally Posted by love being a mummy
I have a TMI question to ask (if this has been covered in other threads I apologize).
How were your libido's during the month you conceived your boys?
I'm asking b/c I find that I have months where it's very high and then months where it's like crickets chirping. I often think maybe the month's where it's high would have made a difference.