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Take it 6 hours before your attempt or even a bit longer (10-12 hours). The Zyrtec is weird in that it takes a good 6 hours to really get rolling and then works for 24 hours after that. Don't take anything after pos OPK day.Quote:
Originally Posted by ThreeMenAndALAdy
Oh thanks! I feel pretty good, things are weird around here right now because my FIL is really sick and my son left yesterday to move in with them and help so lots of activity going on and also I'm sad because my son isn't going to be here! So my attention was kind of divided for a couple weeks here and I really ahve to buckle down and finish getting ready for this baby!!Quote:
Originally Posted by ThreeMenAndALAdy
I have been taking Loratidine/Claritin everyday of the cycle because I do have allergies so killing the bird with one stone. How many days before O should I stop this? I actually think my OPK will turn positive real soon and having O pains. I definitely notice less EWCM at this point in my cycle than usual, but I still have some that I notice when wiping.
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Originally Posted by atomic sagebrush
Well, if you're used to the antihistamine and you need them to get along, you have more leeway to continue them post-O than other people do, that is as long as you attempt before O and allow the sperm plenty of time to get to the egg. It you're going to attempt after O, it is best to take at least 1-2 days off. I'd stop them at pos. OPK and resume them as far afterwards as you can - if you can make it 3 days, ok 5 even better, 7-10 is best because most eggs will be implanted by then.
I can't stick to the diet :/ I suck at it. I love broccli and mashed potatoes and salsa...haha. I think the only thing good I can do to sway girl is CL, reducing my red meat intake, I don't add salt to any of my meals anymore. Oh and of course rephresh. Still waiting to O. Looks like it will be another 5 or 6 days.
Christa, you can have broccoli, potatoes, and salsa on the LE Diet. I ate potatoes 4 times a week!!
Really!?! Oh nice! So I don't have to feel guilty anymore. Lol
I don't think you can do a lazy sway. All you can do is your best.
I think I screwd up :/ just a blarring pos on an opk. I'm a bit early. We bd last night this morning I put in a full applicator. Of rephresh. Thinking I was getting things ready for ovulation in 4 or 5 days. Oh well. Only time will tell.
Well, if you DTD last night and put in RepHresh this morning, any sperm was long gone by this morning anyway. And that's plenty of time if you want to attempt tonight! REally, it's perfect.
Really?!? Omg! You are so awesome!!
I'm 7dpo! Woohoo! Where are all of our lazy swayers at?
Hi I think im going to be a lazy swayer too when the time comes as I just cant seem to stick to teh diet as DH does the evening cooking and its not very girl friendly. ive never been a big eater so actually eating 2-3 meals a day is making me put on weight not loose it but I have gone from grazing all day on junk to eating 2 solid big meals which is a big differnce for me so my blood sugars are definately lowering so thats good plus im going to take supps which i hope will do the trick.
Mom23boys, sounds like me too! My hubby doea all the cooking and its boy friendly too. Lots of read meat,Whole fats, I've found. That not eating the meat that night b/c I want "feeling it" has helped, and reducing my salt intake. I used to eat a ton of salt and now, everything is too salty. Lol
Well at 10 dpo I got a super faint second line and this morning at 11dpo my temp jumped up so I think this is the start of something beautiful. I have a history of early losses so I'm not jjumping up and down just yet, still have a lot of hurtles to get over. I'm not super confident in my sway and my hubby this morning not knowing I was swaying behind the scenes said to me " you know this is another boy" I kept a brave face but wanted to tell him off...lol
Congrats Christa!!
great post :)
I think I'm finding myself falling into the category of lazy swayers. This will be our first child, we're probably going to stop at 2 (we're both in our 30s), and I know that I'm much more likely to be devastated if I never have a daughter than if I never have a son for various reasons. So my husband thinks we should try and sway pink for our first. Though the more I think about it, the more I REALLY want both, and I also think I'd be devastated if I never have a son.
So the sway that I'm doing is pretty easy. I'm already vegan, so my plan for the diet is to cut out salty foods, keep my calories below 2000 per day, stop snacking, skip breakfast (though I normally have just a smoothie for breakfast anyway, so this won't be hard), and follow the principles of LE and FGD as much as I can. Also helps that strawberries are one of my favorite foods!
For exercise, I have a daily Ashtanga Mysore yoga practice, that's important to me, and I'm adding lots of cardio to it as well. Whatever the baby happens to be, the cardio is definitely helping my yoga practice!!
When it comes to sex, right now my husband and I normally have sex 3-4 times per week, and we're going to challenge ourselves to have sex every day from the end of AF to O. It seems like it's a good idea to bombard my egg with sperm as much as possible anyway. :-)
I may use Rephresh, haven't decided yet.
And that's it, we're starting with TTC this coming March, so that should give us plenty of time to be sure that this sway is something we want to do. We were talking about it at breakfast, and seeing as we've known which girls' name we want to use since we've met, it seems kind of weird to think that we'll have to wait a while to use it or that we'll never get a chance to use it.
So if we do, I'm thinking a lightweight pink sway for our firstborn. For our secondborn who will also likely be our last, we'll be swaying a lot harder and for the opposite of what our firstborn is.
I had a missed m/c at 8weeks, I had my d&c almost 2 weeks ago. I asked for thr chromosome testing as this was my 5 loss. So I'm back here with the lazy swayers. ;)
I'm sorry Christa!!! Nice to see you again but I wish it was better circumstances :heart:
Hi girls! Really enjoyed reading through this thread and think I will join you! :). Got my BFP from
My August sway an also decided to do a "lazy sway". I didn't want to get all
Caught up in the swaycession again so decided
To sway only 2 weeks before the attempt ( officially decided only
1 week before). For me, it helped a Lot to keep
Stress low.
What worries me is that I might have dtd
Right on O. And we only dtd once Dh released in the morning, we did an extremely shallow attempt right after, and then dtd that night Me on top, deep release, did j and d and sem right away. So we might have dtd a few hours before or the hour of O!! But I took 1/2 benedril 30 min before and after attempt and used rephreshnand baby aspirin. So hope that helped my
Cause. Haha.
I do think I had a better sway than with my DD even
Did way more the morning of attempt with jelly's and supps. Plus stress
Was lower. Not as good on diet this time but overall I think my
Diet was girl friendly and I did lose some weight.
I'm a perfectionist but I'm so glad I didn't try and perfect my
Sway this time around. I feel good about my testosterone levels at least. And who knows, I could
Have even dtd the day before O
Could you have achey feelings in ovaries day after O?? I had these on Sunday ( we dtd Sat night) and did have once batch of thick Ewcm Sunday afternoon. Then Monday started the crampy feelings. Had no O pains on Saturday ( day of
Attempt). Sooo I think it's more likely that I O'ed on Sunday with very little Ewcm. It was thick
And creamy, TMI! Haha. Had a fair amount of Ewcm
On Sat but ph was still 5.0.
Anyhoo, wanted to wish u all luck!! You can check out my full LAZY SWAY in the "swayed for
A girl section" if u want. Plus my FF chart is in my
Siggie.
Xoxo
Oh and I'm just reading this now. So sorry to hear about ur loss christa :(. ((hugs))
I think your sway looks great!!! Yes you can have pains the day after O. It has something to do with the fluids after the egg bursts that can cause the pain.
I found out today that my girl sway worked! My genetic testing from my d&c showed she had a balanced translocation the same as the little boy that we lost in 2009. After 4 boys (5 counting my loss from 2009) I finally got a girl, she may be an angel in heaven but she still counts).
I plan on swaying again using the same techinque.
Thanks for sharing that extremely personal info, Christa. I'm so sorry you lost her.
If you don't mind, what did you do with diet? Would you mind if I added your little angel to our stats??
Oh gosh, christa, I am so sorry for your loss ((hugs)). Thank you for sharing your story and journey with us. Xoxo
Atomic-yes you can add that to the stats :)
I skipped breakfast, for lunch I would eat half of a cheese sandwich, or taco with corn tortillas with little meat, no avacado, and a touch of salsa. For dinner I ate a lot of baked chicken, didn't eat the skin, some flavored boxed rice (only ate a few bites just to taste). If I snacked it would be on grapes (red), strawberries, or orange sherbert push ups pops that had aspertame. I drank one water bottle daily of crystal light.
I honeslty think the biggest sway factor for me was cutting WAY back on my salt intake. I would always add salt to everything, sandwiches, spaghetti, veggies. While swaying I didnt add salt to anything. I think the aspertame aslo worked well with lowering my ph and keeping it low.
Did you take the cal-mag? Sorry for asking so many q's.
Now worries on all the questions. No, I didn't take any addtional supp. All I took was 800mcg of folic acid.
thank you!!
Hi there. I am a lazy swayer, so I guess this is a good spot for me. :) I can't stick to the diet, but figured I'd try to reduce overall caleries, drink tons of CL, chart, use rephresh, time... I hope that's enough. If not and we have another boy, my youngest will have an excellent playmate! I know this is the last one though and told DH he can get his V as soon as this one is born. ;)
That's a great attitude to have! And the lower stress will sway for you big time
Nice thread! I'm planning a 'gentle sway' as I'm no good at the diet!
That sounds great!! I honestly feel that the lazy, low stress approach does a lot to sway in and of itself. A great way to lower testosterone levels. Plus if you add a bit of diet in and do a somewhat strict sway during your actual attempt ( repHresh, antihistamines, BA) I think you have a great shot at conceiving a girl. Same for a boy but with other supps of course. Also, not getting bogged down with timing is key. I don't think it sways. So just dtd when you get a positive opk. I think frequency of bd sways ( abstinence or frequent). :)
anyone out there in Lazy sway land??? lol
Im about 2 weeks away from my O date and I'm sucking at the diet. I'm supposed to be on a cheese sandwich diet for lunch and then a good dinner. My gosh!! My hubby cooked my fav dish last night (cooked down roma tomatoes, egg plant, mozzerella cheese and pasta MMmmm) and I had it again today for lunch..DOH! I have got to get serious on this. lol
okay tomorrow I'm back to cheese sandwiches lol
OMG bigchrista- just reading your fav meal made me start drooling. This girl diet sucks. Hopefully it will be a BFP this month so I can try it out!
Hey that dish is totally fine on LE Diet!!Quote:
Originally Posted by strawberrymom
really?? I woulda thought the cheese and pasta woulda killed it. lol good know :) thanks!!
strawberrymom-yep the diet sucks, I know now why I have so many boys. haha
as long as you watch your portion size, it's all good.
I think I'm a lazy swayer, I'm cutting calories but not being too strict about the diet and adding in cardio - I was planning on doing that to lose weight anyway so the idea that it can help me sway girl is just extra motivation! Aside from that I'm going to do rephresh and a cut-off (and hubby agreed to frequent release, didn't take much convincing lol). Hoping it works but if I have another boy, then I was just meant to be a mom to 4 wonderful boys :)
Well girls, my lazy sway worked!! Swayed girl and having a girl :). I think ( and have always thought, even before o knew the gender) that my relaxed sway and low stress helped with my T levels to a huge extent. I still did a lot to sway, impo, but I didn't do it to the point of stressing and getting all crazy about it ( which would have happened if I did a stricter attempt).