If you have a question, please post it here:)

If you're taking the Cal-mag, I would not take any more than 1200 mg calcium. 150 mag is fine but if you find you're getting diarrhea, it's probably the mag and you may need less.

B6 - start with 50 mg and take throughout the entire cycle non-stop. Once you get a BFP, you need to wean off SLOWLY, over 2-3 weeks, don't just stop suddenly. If you have morning sickness you can take it through the first trimester and then gradually wean off (it did nothing for me, though.)

Folic - 1200-1600 mcg a day, broken into 3-4 small doses and spaced throughout the day.

Everything you ever wanted to know about baby aspirin and more is here: http://genderdreaming.com/forum/ttc-...echniques.html

No, getting BFP on any DPO tells you nothing about your LP for that cycle. You don't know and can never know what your LP would ahve been on a cycle you conceived. It is totally possible to get pg with a shorter than normal LP! Once the baby implants, it sends a signal to your body to make extra progesterone that then sustains your uterine lining and prevents AF from coming.

Thanks so much Atomic for answering!! I am so HAPPY that I found this site and that you are here to answer these questions:) I am excited to start my supplements now. I read your thread on baby aspirin. Sounds daunting now so I don't think I am going to take it haha. I think the dietary changes, sudafed, and rephresh around O should hopefully be enough to change my environment down there but not prevent me from getting prego. You mentioned that the B6 did not work for you....do you mean in terms of swaying or in terms of lengthening your lp? I still plan on seeing my doc next week about my short lp...I am hoping he gives me progesterone pills or something and doesn't disregard my concerns.

Are YOU taking Sudafed? Reread that thread again because there is info about Sudafed you should be aware of. I'd much rather see you take antihistamine instead, Sudafed is jsut not safe enough for my liking.

B6 did not work for me for swaying OR for preventing morning sickness. I got a boy and was sick as a dog. I never had a short LP BUT I did get pregnant with the first egg while BF so it may have helped there, but I'm not sure.

I'd much rather you got progesterone support, I haven't seen enough success with the B6 on lengthening LP.

That is my goal too! Can't wait for my doc appt and hopefully he will give me that:)

Hi everyone...I wanted to sart vitex also but m/c on June 30. We've bd a few times here and there since and don't know if I've ovulated. My opk was real light when I did test. I want to start vitex but now wondering the what-if I'm already pregnant...I also heard to take it like stating day 3 of AF? I also heard not to take it during AF. Confusing. I wanted to start it now to bring on AF. Does that work? Any advice? It took 2 years to become pregnant without focusing real hard on it and now that I had the m/c I'm really wanting it to happen and not wait 2 years again. I want to take 3 twice a day right? That will give me a chance of a single or twins? Right? Help...

Hi candice, I'm so sorry for your loss.

Vitex does seem to work to bring back your cycle. The best way to do this is go back and look at what your cycles were BEFORE you got pg with your last baby, and use those dates. Most people tend to resume AF and O about the same times of the month that they were having them before. So if your AF was on the 15th of the month and you O on the 1st usually, take vitex starting on the 15th, and stop it on the day before you typically O. (this is just an example and you need to use your own dates!!)

Vitex is safe to take during AF and we all start it CD 1. You should stop it a day before O because it's been delaying O for some people. Since you want to be prepared in case you O unexpectely, take OPK and if you get a positive, stop the vitex, even if it's not the same date that you were expecting to get a pos OPK. Dosage on vitex is 800 mg a day, you can take 400 am and pm or take them all at once, whichever you prefer. Some data indicates vitex may increase odds of twinning but most of us have gotten singletons while taking it so if it's true, it's not by much.

Definitely take a pregnancy test before you start taking the vitex!!

Thank you. All the websites are confusing. I appreciate you and you have a wonderful group of ladies here who all deserve a lil sticky bean. lol This website is wonderful.

Ok so i went to my doc's appt and I got good news.......he is going to prescribe me clomid! He tested me and did an ultrasound and he said that I am ovulating on my own every month but unfortunately I am just a REALLY late O'er and he doesn't know why. According to my ultrasound and blood work ...he has ruled me out for PCOS. I am just an irregular cycle girl I guess which isn't a problem except that I don't have as many chances during the year to get pregnant compared to regular cycle girls. I asked him if ovulating really late meant poor egg quality and he said no...that was a myth. He said the only "problem" he had with it is that more than likely ovulating really late is causing my lp to be crappy. So he prescribed me clomid to induce O earlier and some progesterone supps to lengthen lp for the next cycle. I am happy because I saw all your info/threads about how clomid is awesome for ttc pink. I saw that it is important to get pregnant right away. I am scared! I was so comfortable with my original plan to do diet + abstinence. It just really scares me for some reason to do frequent! My husband is young (26) and I feel like this is just going to majorly boost those speedy boy sperm! DS was conceived with us dtd all the time....was looking forward to trying to do the opposite this time:( So there really is no way to do abstinence with clomid? Also I am DYING here on this diet. If I am doing clomid now can I majorly ease up on the diet? In your opinion is clomid better than any other sway tactics I could do on my own? I am thinking about passing up on his offer for clomid and just sticking to my original plan:?

That's great news wantagirly! Clomid + no PCOS = good shot at pink even if you do nothing else to sway. I would take Clomid in a HEARTBEAT over any other sway tactics.

It's best to get pg quickly on Clomid BUT if you want to give it 1 month with abstinence and 1 attempt, that's ok. 2 at the very, very, very most. After that if you don't get pg, the abstain MUST go.

I really don't think frequency sways much at all, I know it's hard to give up on though.

I personally would advise you to continue on diet even if you're on Clomid. Diet is the one thing you CAN do while you're on Clomid, so I hate to see anyone drop it.

Well I was all set to start my clomid cycle for next month....then I realized that my doc had never given me my AMH results. I got the results back for a couple of other things that he tested me for and they all came back normal. I e-mailed my doc's office about my AMH results and he e-mailed me back saying they were 1.38. He didn't tell me the value though whether this was ng/ml or something else. So I looked on google and apparently 1.38 is really bad and I see women on there saying that they are considered infertile and are having to do ivf to get a baby. How can this be when I am only 26 and just had a baby? So I e-mailed the doc back and asked if 1.38 was low and if I should be concerned. He replied "Yes, 1.38 is low for your age (26). The mean AMH for infertile women your age is 4". That was the entire e-mail. Literally didn't say anything else. So then e-mailed him back again and said, "So what does this mean? What do I do?". He then replied "If you have additional questions then please schedule an appt". I am SO frustrated, stressed, and distraught. I am finding conflicting information online. Some say anyhting above 1 in "normal" and others say it is bad. I can't believe my doctor is so rude that he can't take 2 seconds to explain to me what this all means. Is he still going to give me clomid? If I ovualte every month then how does AMH matter? Am I infertile now? Was my son a miracle baby or something? I have SO many questions! Am I being punished for placing so much importance on ttc a girl when it now looks like I will just be lucky to have another baby at all? Sorry for the rant and I know this question isn't exactly gender related but any information about AMH would be much appreciative. Because this doctor has been so unresponsive I called the office and demanded to have an appt with someone else on Monday to get answers...also I am still unclear about whether or not they are letting me do clomid. However now I have to go into the weekend worrying about this stupid AMH thing!

If you are in the USA, your AMH is just fine. You have to know what scale the measurement is based. .75 is the minimum most RE's like to see and anything above that is okay. Here in the States, we use this scale- AMH Fertility Test, Anti-Mullerian Hormone

and over 1.0 is NORMAL. So, I think at 26 with a normal AMH, you are not infertile.

In the HT section, we have our AMH checked and I can tell you from all the fertile girls on there, it is all over the place. It is very common to see an AMH around .7-1.something. Over 3 indicated possible PCOS so it is a very small range. I can also tell you is varies although your RE will probably say it doesn't. I had mine retested and it went from .75 to 1.25 so it can absolutely change.

Have you been TTC long?

Hi there! Yes I am in the United States! California to be exact. Thank you so much for responding! This is going to sound dumb but I haven't even tried yet. We were going to have our first try be next month (we are swaying for a girl). I have an 8 month old son already who was conceived spontaneously. I have been tracking my cycles for 6 months now in preparation for the sway and ttc baby#2. I notice that I ovulate late and that I have sort of a short luteal phase (10 days) and so that is why I went to the doc. He looked at my ovaries via ultrasound and said everything looked normal and even confirmed that I did in fact ovulate recently. He decided to also go ahead and run some blood work ...one of those things was AMH and that is when he e-mailed me saying it was 1.38 and that it was low for my age. I have seen scales that say above 1 is normal like you have mentioned but then how come he said it is bad? Does AMH matter if I am ovulating every month? Doesn't it just mean I have less eggs? I see in your signature that you did IVF...is that because you had low AMH? I have had a baby naturally before so its hard for me to think that I will need ivf to have baby #2. Were you given clomid first? Sorry for all the questions!

nuthinbutpink already answered your question but I just wanted to reiterate, PLEASE don't worry too much about your AMH number at 26 years old. AMH is one of the newest tests out there and even the experts aren't really sure what it means - they used to swear that AMH couldn't change and yet we've seen several people whose AMH numbers have gone up, so we know that's simply not the case. It is a bit low for your age but then again like NBP mentions, there is more than one way to measure and there is a lot of confusion even amongst experts - people are told one thing by one doctor, then another thing by another doctor.

Another thing to keep in mind is that to TTC naturally, you only NEED one egg to show up every month. AMH is a lot more important for those who are going HT because they are trying to coax their ovaries to produce as many eggs as is possible - swayers only need that one egg each month and you can def. produce a normal amount of eggs for many years to come, even with less than ideal AMH. The Clomid may very well help with that, but he should also take a look at your FSH numbers (and may have already) because Clomid can sometimes aggravate high FSH numbers. At 26, you should be fine to do Clomid and I suspect your FSH is probably great.

You are NOT being punished for wanting a baby of a certain gender - if so none of us would have our babies!!! :heart:

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If you are in the USA, your AMH is just fine. You have to know what scale the measurement is based. .75 is the minimum most RE's like to see and anything above that is okay. Here in the States, we use this scale- AMH Fertility Test, Anti-Mullerian Hormone

and over 1.0 is NORMAL. So, I think at 26 with a normal AMH, you are not infertile.

In the HT section, we have our AMH checked and I can tell you from all the fertile girls on there, it is all over the place. It is very common to see an AMH around .7-1.something. Over 3 indicated possible PCOS so it is a very small range. I can also tell you is varies although your RE will probably say it doesn't. I had mine retested and it went from .75 to 1.25 so it can absolutely change.

Have you been TTC long?

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I just had a client who had AMH lower than one conceive a baby girl at the age of 38 after being told there was no hope! All she did differently was LE Diet and acupuncture!!

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Hi there! Yes I am in the United States! California to be exact. Thank you so much for responding! This is going to sound dumb but I haven't even tried yet. We were going to have our first try be next month (we are swaying for a girl). I have an 8 month old son already who was conceived spontaneously. I have been tracking my cycles for 6 months now in preparation for the sway and ttc baby#2. I notice that I ovulate late and that I have sort of a short luteal phase (10 days) and so that is why I went to the doc. He looked at my ovaries via ultrasound and said everything looked normal and even confirmed that I did in fact ovulate recently. He decided to also go ahead and run some blood work ...one of those things was AMH and that is when he e-mailed me saying it was 1.38 and that it was low for my age. I have seen scales that say above 1 is normal like you have mentioned but then how come he said it is bad? Does AMH matter if I am ovulating every month? Doesn't it just mean I have less eggs? I see in your signature that you did IVF...is that because you had low AMH? I have had a baby naturally before so its hard for me to think that I will need ivf to have baby #2. Were you given clomid first? Sorry for all the questions!

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Yes, all it really means is that you ~MAY~ have less eggs in reserve than the average 26 year old. I really really hope you can not worry too much over this. I do not think you are infertile in any way (of course, your son is a miracle baby, they all are! :))

Your doctor really did not say that your AMH was "bad", he said that it was below the mean. The mean is like the average of all 26 year olds, so some people are lower and others higher and you're just a little below the average person. It doesn't imply that you're infertile or going into menopause or anything of the sort. People get pg every day with low AMH, even women in their 40's who typically have a lot worse prospects than you do!

THANK you both so much for the kind words and reassurance! I have a doc appt Monday with a diff doctor in the practice to find out more info and to see if we are still proceeding with our original plan to do Clomid. I hope they still let me:)

Keep us updated! Good luck.

Hey ladies. So I just came from the worst docs appt ever. Went there to discuss the low AMH issue. As you may recall it was 1.38.She said that I have the ovarian reserve of a 39 year old and that I probably did get lucky conceiving my son no problem. I asked her if this just meant I had less eggs or if it effected quality as well and she believed both...although I have read online that Amh says nothing about egg quality. She stated that there is no way to know for sure that quality is effected but its an indicator that it is. Anyways long story short she thinks we should get cracking on having another baby and not waste anymore time. She wants me to try a couple more cycles on our own since I am ovulating on my own supposively....and then if that doesn't work she said she will do a monitored Clomid cycle. So the problem is that I was planning on having our first attempt be in Sept but now with this new info....sounds like we shouldn't' be wasting any cycles. I am due to ovulate in 10 days and my Dh and I have decided to try this cycle. I have not been doing the girl diet really at all. In fact I had a burger 2 nights ago and last night had pasta! The most salty things ever! This is because I wasn't' planning on really starting the diet until another week or so. I thought our first attempt was 4-6 weeks away! The good thing I guess is that I have been taking magnesium and calcium supplements the past month and making an effort to drink more milk, diet soda, and crystal lite. DH and I had sex 2 nights ago and that was the last time. So if I ovulate in 10 days that will put us at 12 days abstinence if we still try to sway girl. Any suggestions on what else/more I can do on such short notice? Should I just forget the whole swaying thing in light of this information? Any advice would be much appreciated. I still can't believe that at 26 years old with all other blood tests normal that this is happening to me. FSH, estrogen, etc all normal. Progesterone was a 12 last cycle after ovulation which wss good too. She said that if I really wanted to they would retest me for amh and I said yes so they are going to test that again just to double check...but she is pretty sure it was accurate:(

Do not worry one bit about the burger, pasta, or sodium.

I personally think your doc is being a little bit alarmist esp. if your FSH is good.

For the most part I don't think people on Clomid should do much swaying aside from diet but if you really want to try abstain for the first month, that's ok, it's just that if you don't get pg it should be dropped.

Here are two threads you should read, one is the general Clomid info thread and the other is how to adjust your sway while on Clomid.

http://genderdreaming.com/forum/gend...91-clomid.html
http://genderdreaming.com/forum/gend...-part-2-a.html

Thanks Atomic! This ovulation/attempt coming up next week will not be with clomid (doc wants us to try on our own a couple more months) but if/when she puts me on clomid I will def keep all this information in mind. Thank you so much for the link to the clomid swaying article!

Hi there,

I'm new to this site but in the beginning of swaying for a pink result. I'm concidering to sign up for a personal plan but I live in sweden so I wonder how hard it'll be for me to translate your plan with supplement and stuff, do you have any idea? ...I just had a late misscarriage so I'm now waiting for the body to be back at normal cycle, is it ok to start swaying then?

Also I'm wondering a bit about exercising... I love it and do it often, both bodypump and spinning - do I need to give this up for a while?

...sorry if this is a lot of questions in one, and also excuse my sometimes bad english... ;)

Oh, no not at all. I've done many plans for members from a variety of countries and haven't had much difficulty with the language barrier. I actually have a couple friends who are from Sweden who can help me translate if we really run into a problem.

It's fine to start swaying the cycle after a miscarriage and it may even sway pink to do so. (I'm sorry to hear of your loss!!)

It's fine to continue exercising, but it's best to do a lot of exercise (60 minutes a day, 6-7 days a week) to be sure you're shrinking your muscles rather than building them up. I would focus more on the spinning. Here is an essay that may help: http://genderdreaming.com/forum/gend...h-genders.html

Oh thank's for your reply!

...then I'm not far away from ordering... :)

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Hi there,

I'm new to this site but in the beginning of swaying for a pink result. I'm concidering to sign up for a personal plan but I live in sweden so I wonder how hard it'll be for me to translate your plan with supplement and stuff, do you have any idea? ...I just had a late misscarriage so I'm now waiting for the body to be back at normal cycle, is it ok to start swaying then?

Also I'm wondering a bit about exercising... I love it and do it often, both bodypump and spinning - do I need to give this up for a while?

...sorry if this is a lot of questions in one, and also excuse my sometimes bad english... ;)

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Hello Luppa,
I am so sorry about your miscarriage. :sadflwr:

I had one in April-May, and I just wanted to double recommend that you don't wait to sway! It is an automatic girl sway right after a loss.
I started Vitex to bring back AF and Red Raspberry Leave capsules to heal and strengthen my uterine lining. I was able to ovulate 2 weeks after my M/C and I did conceive from it. I found out I am having a girl, so something worked ;)
Best of luck in your sway! Atomic is awesome!

boy or girl??? (12 weeks 2 days)

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Hello Luppa,
I am so sorry about your miscarriage. :sadflwr:

I had one in April-May, and I just wanted to double recommend that you don't wait to sway! It is an automatic girl sway right after a loss.
I started Vitex to bring back AF and Red Raspberry Leave capsules to heal and strengthen my uterine lining. I was able to ovulate 2 weeks after my M/C and I did conceive from it. I found out I am having a girl, so something worked ;)
Best of luck in your sway! Atomic is awesome!

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I hear you, BUT I haven't done anything to sway yet and as feeling sorry for myself I've eaten ALOT of candy and fat food lately. My plan is to start with girl diet and exercise now and go for it in about 6weeks although I've heard that M/C sways pink, I really want my body to be back on track before we try again..

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I hear you, BUT I haven't done anything to sway yet and as feeling sorry for myself I've eaten ALOT of candy and fat food lately. My plan is to start with girl diet and exercise now and go for it in about 6weeks although I've heard that M/C sways pink, I really want my body to be back on track before we try again..

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Candy can help sway pink and will keep you from losing too much weight! I understand that you're not ready to try yet, but I did want to let you know that candy is ok.

Hi Atomic,

I would like to buy a personalised plan but I need to confirm timing first. I am trying to decide when to start trying.

I wondered if you have any views on how important timing your sway is? I want to give this sway a lot as my DH isn't on board (he won't take supps etc but may make small adjustments) so feel it is on me and I need to have everything aligned.

I am in Australia and was planning on a Feb/March conception but now I am wondering whether to put it off until the girl months of Sept-Nov 2013, although may not have the patience!

Thanks,
Lolly.

Hi Lolly! I think you asked me this a couple days ago then I couldn't find the post again. Sorry.

I don't think it's very important at all, there may be a tiny statistical advantage in working with the seasons rather than against them. There's a full explanation here. http://genderdreaming.com/forum/gend...s-swaying.html

Thanks Atomic! That's great to know.

Hey ladies where do I find Vitex ?

Hi, how do i put a ticker on and also how to put on how many and what children I have? Thanks

unsure you need to go to settings at the top then down the left hand side edit signature there you can add details in using the smileys and writing hat you want or you can insert the link to a ticker from any ticker making website.

We just got my DH's SA back and his count is high but motility is really poor. We are preparing to do an iui in a couple of months. He already takes a "Men's One a Day" multi-vitamin. Is there anything else I can be having him take? We weren't expecting this. He is only 27 and we already have a son. We haven't seen the doc yet but his results were posted last night:(

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Any herb/supplement shop will have it or you can order online - it's one of the more common sups and easy to find.

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We just got my DH's SA back and his count is high but motility is really poor. We are preparing to do an iui in a couple of months. He already takes a "Men's One a Day" multi-vitamin. Is there anything else I can be having him take? We weren't expecting this. He is only 27 and we already have a son. We haven't seen the doc yet but his results were posted last night:(

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Yes, you can have him take l-arginine 500 mg(if he has herpes or cold sores he shouldn't take this), l-carnitine 1000 mg (don't use d-carnitine) 100 mg coq10, extra folic acid (1200-1600 mcg a day), 1000 mg fish oil, and 1000 IU Vit. D. Having him eat/drink 9-11 servings of fruit and vegetables will also help. He should avoid soy foods, smoking, industrial chemicals and pesticides and get a lot of sleep. He should NOT take megadoses of vitamins or minerals, regardless of where you read about them. Have him wear boxers and keep his jewels cool. Please note, these things tend to sway blue, but since you're doing IUI you will be avoiding the whole "race to the egg" and that's where swaying probably makes the difference anyway.

Thx Atomic for your response. Also do I only take the vitex 6 weeks priar to my attempt? Also I have two boy's I conceived ds1 on O and ds2 O-1 so I
m swaying for girl come April and I was thinking abstaining for 12 days with LR and do one attempts at + opk with the LE diet almost two months priar. Does that sound like a good plan or would you do anything different Atomic?

Take vitex AF-1-2 days before O (or if you have super long cycles just take it the first 14 days then stop).

I would not have DH abstain for 12 days while on LR. 7 days is plenty. Good luck!

I posted on "review sway plan" but just seeing this thread
this is my question about le diet here-

http://genderdreaming.com/forum/revi...questions.html