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Mother of two girls (4 & 2).
With both pregnancies I was eating lots of sweets, I was also trying to lose weight by restricting calories.
I hadn't started to use opk etc, but I had read somewhere that you should withold Dp release for a couple of days prior to sex to ensure there was heaps of sperm to make a boy. Well I got a beautiful daughter so it might be worth trying if you are after a girl :)
I have just read the entire thread - thanks for sharing. I am trying to get a girl this time and it is quite clear to me, that I did NOT eat a girl diet, when I conceived DS!! ;) We were not swaying - had never heard of it at the time. I will go write in the boy section to let you in on my "boy diet secrets" :)
With my DD2 and 3 I was BF and only 6mo postpartum. With DD1 we DTD daily (several times) and I was pretty thin. We also weren't eating a very balanced diet. Coffee for breakfast, sometimes with protein, sometimes not. Sandwiches and chips and fruit for lunch, meat & potatoes & veggie for supper. But probably not eating enough calories to fuel a strenuous work life. Both of us were stressed a lot, particularly DH. I also have low T, very sure about that. I'd like to see what the stats are on babies born close together, if steaks of girls are more common or not.
i would like to know too, going to ttc girl soon, but had my second son recently. heard the theory that babies born close together are mostly same gender though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Plantain
By coincidence I just found out my friend is expecting a whoops baby - she got pg 6 months after giving birth to her daughter. She is expecting a boy but think that the food and vitamins she is taking would have swayed heavily for her as she was very skinny before.Quote:
Originally Posted by marinewantspink
Just finished reading the whole thread and found it very useful thanks. It was nice to see peoples signatures under some comments and to see that they had had success swaying. I'll add how I got my boys to the other thread after I have had a read and hope I can help someone wanting a boy.
How do you know if you have high or low testosterone? I always suspected mine has been high due to my competitiveness but does body shape have anything to do with it? I am above average height with broad shoulders and back, square jaw and big hands and feet. How do you know what your PH is? Do you just pee on a strip?
This a great thread! Thank you everyone for posting...I'm learning a lot!
That's not true!! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by marinewantspink
You can have a blood test to know if you have high T or not. This essay may be of interest to you but don't read too much into it. http://genderdreaming.com/forum/tryi...one-women.htmlQuote:
Originally Posted by 1+2+3boys
pH tests are done on cervical mucus, not urine and you can read how to do that here http://genderdreaming.com/forum/gend...-ph-dh-dw.html
Hi Ladies!! Feel free to have every speck of my pink dust!! DD#1 I didn't know about swaying but unintentionally did almost a perfect PINK sway. WE DTD everyday for about 10 days before O and around O.Drank lots of cranberry juice, i was on a low cal diet, ate lots of fat free dairy-mozz sticks,yogurt.had a vodka drink almost everynight after work (high stress job).I ate lots of strawberries, raspberries, turkey.Brisk walk almost every day.DH was mountain biking a lot at the time, we had no kids so we actually had free time!! he wore these really tight spandex biking shorts which I think helped.I took Femaprin which is vitex & b6. I took this because I get chronic ovarian cysts and it prevented the cysts and kept my cycle normal.Definitely took Baby Aspirin. We also used preseed.The first month I used it we got pg.Hope this helps & thank you all for posting your "boy making recipes"
Hi ladies can you talk about your cm
I am a mother of 4 girls and never never has EWCM
Always creamy and thick
Thank you
I answered your question in another threadQuote:
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Can you please give its linkQuote:
Originally Posted by dloui128
Thank you sooo much
Just read the whole thread and I so sway blue without even realising it! Thanks everyone who took the time to post!
With my first two girls we dtd daily the whole week of o conceived in the summer I was taking vitex. I believe both were during a new moon. My third I did a mild sway had the flu and delayed o giving me a 2 day cut off oops. My 4th was a pullout baby with no period I was still bf'ing my daughter also my last two were conceived in the summer. My typical diet is a few cups of coffee with creamer no breakfast, chicken, rice, dairy, milk, seafood, fish lots of cheese and veggies, salads, deli meat sandwiches, pasta, diet coke, sweet tea, sweets, ice cream ate chick-fil-a sandwiches. Avoided salt, potatoes, bananas, not too much red meat, not very heavy meals. Dh diet is similar but he always has a cereal milk at night before bed. We both have a few beers or wine each week. We are pretty active and have a low stress live we both do cardio each week and my hubby some weight lifting.
New here! Figured I would add my story! We have one child (a girl). I was very skinny when I got pregnant with her. I am 5'8 and I was about 128 pounds. I NEVER ate breakfast. I ate at very random times. I NEVER drank water. I would drink a lot of sweet tea, and coke. I was in advanced fitness in school (got pregnant my senior year so this was a class I had to take 5x a week) so for everyday I was walking a mile and doing some strength. DH (who boyfriend at the time) was in Tech School for the army. I hadn't seen him in a few weeks. I had just gotten off of BC so when I saw him I was just off of my first AF after getting off BC. From my calculations I had ovulated on Wednesday or Thursday of that week and I saw him on a Friday or a Saturday (Can't remember the exact day) So I either got pregnant 2 or 3 days after ovulation. We only had sex once. Missionary. And no orgasm for me. DH was very stressed. Had a poor diet and his boys were always very very hot. Hopefully now that our lifestyle is completely different this time around we can have DS!
Hi Everyone,
I noticed a lot of women who swayed Pink did a lot of exercise / cardio. We are TTC in about a week, and I was wondering if I should start now (working out everyday before O)? I haven't been working out at all lately since I don't get home until after 5:30 and I am with my son until he goes down for the night. Do you think not exercising will lessen my girl sway?
The advice for TTC pink is either exercise 1hr a day every day doing cardio (eg jogging) NOT muscle building type exercise. OR do no exercise at all. So if you think you can maintain 1hr a day, then by all means throw it in, but if you are thin already (don't have much weight to loose) or don't have the time, its safer to do nothing than throw it in in boy frequency (like a few days a week).Quote:
Originally Posted by Lorrainey
Good luck!
New here and finding This is very interesting. We had a son 3/18/12.
Now, we REALLY would LOVE a Daughter.
We just turned 32, and I've finally got a period! So I'm trying to see what my cycle is but temping is hard due to me jumping up as soon as I hear our son.
Anyway, I was wondering if anyone knew if taking stool
Softener (colace) would hind swaying girl. Currently, heneroids due to hard stools (in probably not drinking enough water) ugh. TMI sorry.
Also, if frequency sways girl should I ask my husband to masterbate everyday? Lol weird but wondering.
Also, is it only the warm months the good months. Was looking at conceiving around the time I 14 month old today turns 2 as I had my appendix removed and thinking maybe I should heal more?
Oh, and I go for a walk about once a day. Should I skip this?
This is quite interesting.
Hi,
We have a 20 month old son and are ttc a girl. I run everyday and am already fairly thin, so I think that part is covered. I eat a healthy diet and not a lot of meat. I eat tofu, which is soy. What sort of effect does this have on girl sway? ALso does eating nuts affect your testosterone levels. THanks,
I think you should post these querstions elsewhere, so they get answered. Because this thread is only for girl moms, so they can share wahat their lifestyle was when they concieved girls.
Yes, I would make a separate post for questions! We created this so we could share what we were doing when we conceived girls so those ttc girl could read and hopefully see some common threads.
I would say eating nuts is more ttc boy though, because they are so nutritious, but make a post about it and you may get some more updated answers. Good luck!!!
Fabulous thread, thank you so much to everyone who has contributed. I have started my big fat pink sway and it's good to know that I might be on the right tracks, lots more to think about too. It is no wonder that I have two beautiful sons as my diet couldn't have been more different than the pink one! Will write in boy thread too... Xxx
Well i have 3 girls but i must admit, i did alot of the opposite especially with the first one. I am a salt eater. I put salt on everything and always have. But i had not herd of gender swaying till after my 3 girls so i tested my ph to see what it is, and it is very acidic so this might explain it.
Oh sorry somehow I misssed this particular question and have answered the same q in other threads. This thread is specifically for people to share their experiences and not really for me to answer individual q's in. But if you are also curious about these things please check out The Complete Index for answers to all this and much much more. http://genderdreaming.com/forum/gend...ete-index.htmlQuote:
Originally Posted by Alicewonder
I personally believe high sodium intake sways pink by declining your overall condition and it can cause nutrients to be excreted at a higher rate.Quote:
Originally Posted by Luvgirls3
Got my daughter eating tons of salt both me and DH, after a failed sway with DS where I was limiting it.
Hi, sorry I missed this. Some people choose to leave soy out because some sources claim it may raise estrogen and sway blue. I believe soy in moderation is fine in a pink sway as long as you're sticking to the overall totals for the diet. And for DH, I believe it's good for him to eat a lot of soy foods. So feed it to DH, and you stick to the protein limits and you'll be fine even with soy.Quote:
Originally Posted by whl
Re nuts, they are considered more a boy food because they're protein + carbs and a good source of nutrients including healthy fats. But they can be a part of a pink sway diet provided you keep them in moderation - like a tablespoon of sun seeds on a salad, a couple chopped almonds on some green beans, that kind of thing. When I conceived my boys I ate 1/2 cup of nuts a day, so that's a big difference between 1 T of nuts vs. 1/2 c of nuts.
With sway diets, you have to understand that on HE and LE Diets, there are no magic foods, it's the overall nutrient content of your diet that matters and not any magical food that you must eat or avoid.
Agree. Just note tofu is incredibly high protein as are nuts so do make sure you count your totals carefully.
I didn't realize diet was such a big part of swaying when I conceived my DD. I wanted to sway blue, but was focusing only on timing. I never ate breakfast, never exercised, and often skipped meals. I was not taking any vitamins or supplements at all. I was using the OPKs, and right after we got a positive on that, we DTD once only. I laid in bed for about 30 minutes before getting up. 9 months later, :DD: Hope this helps! Pink dust to all of you!!
I didn't sway for any of my kids but my first was a girl. She's 5 already so from what I can remember from back then I was eating a lot of salads for lunch with balsamic vinegar dressing. I ate a lot of baby spinach (in salads) and hardly ever had red meat, always had chicken pieces in my salads. I exercised about 4 times a week, mostly cardio, power walking for an hour or so. We fell pregnant on our first attempt because we'd decided whilst we were DTD to try for a baby. I get ovulation pains which I had all morning and we didn't try till the afternoon so I remember thinking at the time that we wouldn't become pregnant because I had already ovulated (back then I didn't know too much about falling pregnant so excuse my ignorance). I didn't drink coffee but used to drink 1 or 2 cups of tea a day.
Hope this helps.
Also just remembered that 2 months before I feel pregnant I was taking prescription progesterone and the mini pill. I have long cycles and a doctor thought they needed to be changed (for the record they're fine as they are) but the tablets didn't work to shorten my cycles so I stopped taking them about 4 weeks before falling pregnant. I still wonder if this influenced the gender?
Thought I should stick my "sways" in here lol never "swayed" but planned pregnancies. TBH I only heard of natural swaying (as opposed to Shettles) a few weeks ago and have lurking for a while before I joined here!! Anyway:
Angel DS1: missed miscarriage at 20wks - was in Royal Air Force so very healthy diet and lots of cardio/strength exercises. Barely snacked, but mess food is high protein, high nutrient foods to keep you fuelled. Was not on BC.
DD1: stopped looking after myself (food wise). Worked fulltime as a mechanic, but only ate if I got hungry (for example: I'd eat on Monday at 7pm, then nothing except 2 or 3 mars bars on Tuesday, then another meal on Wednesday at around 7pm - always guzzled Irn-Bru though) which involved a bowl of mac n cheese from a box or a smoked sausage supper from chip shop - washed down with one pint of full fat milk. Drank Irn-bru in between meals. Never ate breakfast or supper, ate quite a lot of mars bars though. Was on BC for 6mths prior to TTC, got BFP after second month of stopping BC. Weighed around 8st, size 6-8. Continued all exercise.
DS1, 2 & 3: Ate 3 square meals a day, with lots of snacking on crisps, biscuits and homemade cakes. Drank a lot of Dr Pepper, Pepsi and Water. Only doing 30mins of cardio a day. Natural family planning. Weighed 14/15st was size 14-16.
DS4: Same as above, but we tried Shettles method for girl (position and timing). We got another beautiful boy.
FX for our final attempt at pink - in September!! This time we're following the advice here!! But happy with whatever we get as we are pleased with the Diva we have!
This thread is great! Thanks for sharing ladies!
Yes, thanks- very helpful!
DS2 seriously should have been a girl after reading all these!
This is bloody amazing ......... great reading , thank you all
OK, I JUST found out yesterday that I am carrying a confirmed girl and here is what I did. Mine wasn't really hardcore, but I did kinda sway.
First, I went on countdowntopregnancy.com and looked up methods to help conceive a girl.
Then, I stopped eating bananas and ate on a light breakfast. I drank alot of Diet Dr. Pepper and I was walking alot and counting calories to about 1500.
I had the Period Tracker app downloaded on my phone already and it told me my fertile window. So I timed intercourse about a week before my first fertile day and would continue until about 3 days before ovulation. Then, I would do it the day after my last fertile day. I took calcium and magnesium (it was for hair growth but I later read it helps in a girl sway LOL) I also took muccinex (although I later read that was for boys so IDK) I was taking evening primrose oil for breast pain so not sure if it factored in...I was into supplements.
As far as DH, he drank hot coffee and had a hot shower before intercourse. And this my sound gross, but immediately after I went to the bathroom and sat on the toliet awhile to get rid of boy sperm because I heard they were faster.
I ordered a calenderr online for US $40.00 that told the best times to conceive the gender you wanted and used as well.
IDK if all this really helped but I am currently pregnant with a girl after a son. I am also an older mom and I read that older moms have girls more LOL.
Monkeysnuffer, thank you for sharing, congratulations on you DD!