Dreaming...ooo this will be fun waiting to see if anything comes of that night! If it was meant to be it will be!
Welcome to the new ladies!
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Dreaming...ooo this will be fun waiting to see if anything comes of that night! If it was meant to be it will be!
Welcome to the new ladies!
We NEED boy swayers on this thread boysway!! So happy you joined us. Overall, it seems more ladies on here are swaying for girls. But I love having a good variety :)
I hope you can get your diet sorted out. I also have a tendency to do really well for a little while and then slack off because I am bored. Lol. If I do diet, it will be the shortest possible amount I can and still get results! Haha. But I'm trying to more toward more girl eating patterns already, so it won't feel as big of a change.
Did everyone have a good weekend? We found out yesterday that we are expecting our first nephew!! I'm so excited :) We don't have any nieces or nephews, so he is our kids' first cousin! Both Dh and I are the oldest children. I wanna spoil a baby and snuggle him and then hand him back. Hehe. I did a little shopping for him this afternoon. It was so fun!
Congrats on finding out about your future nephew! We just found out over Christmas that our kids are getting their first cousin too. She is only 12 weeks pregnant though so not sure what they are having as of yet.
I am so nervous I am going to be super jealous if it is a girl but I really am excited to be an aunt! By all swaying standards...even though she wasn't swaying of course, she should be having a boy. We shall see if I am right!
Today I bought 4 baby girl newborn onsies, they were on super sale and I couldn't pass them up. Hope I get to use them!
^^I was rather sure my SIL was having a boy too. I guessed boy pretty strongly. She only had one "strong" girl factor (she is a nurse who works nights). But her diet, health, and personality were all boyish. She is even more particular about things than I am (aka: Martha to the max). And even though its an old wives tale, I find women carrying boys are nicer and look really good in pregnancy. Total stereotype, but I've seen it be true a lot. She became so nice when she got pregnant (we haven't been the best of friends, but it's changing rapidly). So I was pretty sure her odds for a boy were higher.
I didn't really care though, but again, I have a girl and that makes a big difference. I might have felt envious if I had three boys. I did feel really bad for her though, she didn't have a preference (to my knowledge), but her only sibling is expecting this week and having a little boy. So her entire side of the family were pulling for a girl. And my husband and her husband are the only two on this side and since we have two boys and a girl, their mom (MIL) made it clear she wanted to even up the teams. So I feel like she got "ganged up" on to have a girl and I know she was feeling pressure of disappointing people by having a boy. Thankfully, everyone was gracious at the party they had (except her best friend, but she is a tool). I really am super excited to get a nephew, I just love little boys :) I just hope no one says stupid crap to her, I want her to have that delightful 'first pregnancy bliss' without people ruining it with gender comments!
Congrats hotdogz and rosie! So exciting to be an aunt and for your kids to have cousins :) I come from a pretty small family and so does DH so both families are happy we are already planning for #2! I just bought some girl clothes on clearance last weekend too! Dh found them and thinks I'm crazy though. Haha!
On a more serious note, I think I need to take baby aspirin out of my sway. I only took two last week and got bruises on the back of my legs :( I'm hoping the other elements are enough. I also cheated on the diet last night when dh took me out for valentines day... I had salmon.
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It's so exciting knowing a new little relative is on the way. My SIL gave us a nephew in 2011. We now have a little niece on the way :D She is due in 8 weeks. I'm looking forward to seeing if she looks anything like my youngest. My first three kids are from a previous relationship. My youngest looks a lot like my husband.
We welcomed the first girl in our family after 5 boys. My SIL had a baby girl a month ago and we were all beyond thrilled :-)..if nothing else.. I have an excuse to buy the cute girl clothes.
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^^Is it bad to admit that I just wanted an excuse to buy cute baby clothes PERIOD!? Lol. I ran out of reasons to buy for my kids, they have full wardrobes AND my mom buys tons for them as well :)
Dreamingpink14: I'd take it out and not think twice about it. There are tons of other factors going into swaying and you don't want to cause health issues. If the lining is too thin, you can't implant anyway, so I wouldn't stress about no aspirin. Nor about the cheat, it's a pretty mild one in my book ;)
And how cool that so many of you got or are getting little nieces or nephews. I came from a huge family (I have 23 first cousins alone, not mentioning the kids they all have and my second cousins, whom we see on a regular basis), so it's not really a new thing for me. And my kids call my cousins' kids' their "cousins." But this is our first official. My brothers aren't old enough or in stable enough relationships for me to want them to have kids yet (lol!) but we have been kinda waiting for his brother to start. They want 2-3, so we figured soon (he is 30, she is 27 next month).
Hey there ladies! I hope that everyone's day is going well. I have been in an extremely great mood today, I am sure it's because I got great news today, well not really great per se. I found a lump in my breast in Dec. fast forward past all doc appointments and etc and today we scheduled the removal/biopsy for next week! Super excited, I have been waiting on this to pass before start my sway. There is a 2% chance it's cancer but I am being positive! (I have also been holding this in from everyone except for dh) so this is big for me..... Completely off topic but I can't wait!! Starting my exercising tomorrow!
^^Lots and lots of good thoughts for that 98% and to be able to move forward with your sway!! Good luck.
I gotta say ladies...I must love living on the edge. I am not being careful AT ALL lately and I don't quite know why. Last month I was having weird CM and thought we might have BDed too close to O. Turns out I ovulated later and all was good. But this month...again...I haven't gotten a positive OPK yet, but not liking what the CM is doing far too close to relations. I need to learn. Lol. But it's not like I don't know what we are doing, I just only think about it after. Dummy! I think part of me wants as close to a NTNP baby as possible. I find the whole swaying things stressful this time around, like I don't want to think about it or plan it, so I'm hoping I just pop up pregnant (which isn't possible because of the clotting issues and ill have to catch it early). But me and dh pretty much talked about trying much later in the year (July). So I dunno why we are playing with fire. It kinda baffles me. Lol. Hopefully that smiley face stays away until Thursday or so. Then I think we'd be in the clear. If I wanna play this game AND sway, I best start changing things up. Ugh. I wish I weren't so torn on all of it. (FWIW: dh doesn't care, I could want to be preggo tomorrow and he would be fine with it, it's not like I'm messing things up in that way. Just with my own plans!)
Hi! We're starting our sway in April. I'm reading a lot about swaying, have started taking folic acid, drinking diet coke and crystal lite, and have been checking my cp and cm. I'm so excited and really encouraged to read all these successful sway stories!
hotdogz, it is kind of fun to play with fire isn't it? haha. I wish I could do the same and I too want to accidentally fall pregnant and not have to worry and stress anymore but like I mentioned before these two months are beyond out of the question and I know I will be upset if I get pregnant! It is also hard to not want to be when all the ladies from our old due date club are getting pregnant!
married-so happy it is only a 2% chance! Your odds are soo good. Good luck moving forward with your sway now!
Thank you hotdogz and rosie! You two are hilarious.
marriedmom, I'm thrilled for you It must be such a relief after all that worry You must feel like a big weight is off your shoulders. Good for you!!
hotdogz I know the feeling! we had a bit of a drunken woopsie back in Jan and I thought No give more time on my sway!! Had only started swaying two weeks then! But thank god af showed up! I have a big night out on 8 March so I have to be good and not drink too much again!
Anyone else craving salty foods and meat? I've eaten atkins style for so many years this diet is so strange for me When I get my bfp I'm having a large big mac mmmmmmmmm!!!
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Daisymoo I'm getting sick of full fat milk and vitamins if I'm honest. I'm not 100% HE atm, just trying to add a few things like the vitamins as they're not something I usually take.
If I can be a bit TMI for a moment, I very nearly threw in the towel last night but no want to give my sway a go but have started an AF with all the crappy symptoms. First one in 3 years so it's taken the wind out of my sails. Boo
Sorry you are having a rough time dreamingblue, it is so hard to make such drastic changes and I too often want to throw in the towel.
I miss meat and eating full meals. I get that changing my habits has shown me how to eat better as in not eating too much fat and calories like I was before but I really do miss eating whatever I want and now with the awareness I have gained I know I will never go back to how it was. I have never been a label reader and now that is all I do. I would eat half a pan of brownies before...no guilt really and now I can barely feel good about one.
I just really hope this all works out for everyone in the end and we all get our dream genders!
oh and daisy I haven't been having salt cravings at all actually. I reduced my intake but not to the point of including it in the sway, it just naturally happened with my food selections. I can tell the days I get more than normal because I get super super thirsty.
Thank you daisy! It really is a relief. Dreamingblue, sorry you are having a hard time. I have two boys and I hate full fat milk (red cap) I only use the blue cap (2%) and I only have milk with cereal or cookies, never by itself I hate milk, I give it to my boys when I'm done. Can you change it up? Breakfast food, cereal, and burgers (with tons of steak fries) have always been my favorites ( no idea how I am going to give these up).....
welcome Abi :flowerz:
dreaminginblue, I have 3 boys and never drank milk. So don't worry about that too much. Like marriedmom, I would eat buckets of cereal, lots of meat dishes and lots of food with really healthy fats like nut butters, avocados and really healthy brown breads. I would take multi vitamins, extra vitamin c, fish oils etc. And I would drink green tea by the gallon! You should try that instead of the milk.
Rosie, I was like you I would eat loads without even thinking about it. It does make you realise how much you could eat doesn't it? I have definitely become a label freak now! Even my husband commented on me eating white bread today it's that strange for me But I do love it! Oh please let our sways work :banghead::what::):)
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Daisy the only white bread I ever ate was homemade and when going out to eat. I always loved it but it isn't as healthy so we stuck to wheat for at home. So I am enjoying that guilty pleasure!
oh and I am with daisy...I never ever drink milk as I have a pretty bad intolerance and I have 3 boys. makes me wonder if I did drink it if I would get girls, haha
I think it's hard on both ends to change diet so drastically. There is a reason, somewhere, for why we eat the ways we do. Girl mamas tend to enjoy the LE way of eating. And boy mamas love the HE style!
I don't struggle much with the choices on either diet, I tend to sit in the middle as far as items I eat. But it's the pattern of eating (snacking) and simply being told I *cant* have things that I rebel against. And I know that it's fine to say "hey, there aren't cant foods, cheat sometimes." But I'd cheat all.the.time. Lol. And I love potatoes. All forms, but particularly French fries. I could live on them. I'm amazed I don't have weight issues with how many freaking French fries I eat. Lol. I am also a pretty big eater as well. I have been less so lately, not because of LE, just because we are busier and I miss breakfast a lot, which cuts out an entire meal without making it up. So it's a bit of LE without doing it on purpose.
Are any mamas in here crafters? Just wondering :)
Hi ladies.. I'm having a rough time sticking to the diet. I've been pretty good until this past weekend. Craving meat now. Argh!
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I was doing ok on the diet until today. I had to have chicken fingers and cheese fries for lunch lol
Ladies go ahead and eat meat once in a while! It makes it easier to stick to the diet. I have chicken once a week! The point is to make a change from where you were before so eating way less meat is still doing something. Vegetarian is a magic bullet as many veggie moms have boys!
Hotdogz-I craft! Don't have a ton of money to do so but I enjoy it very much!
oh and I love french fries too! Especially the ones from smashburger, yummmmmm
I have found the cure if any of you girlies are feeling like throwing in the towel Go and see some pink girlie clothes in a shop. I did today and it got me all excited again! Strange I know but seemed to work!
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I agree with the being used to LE diet. I seem to constantly lose and gain the same stone and usually stick to semi-skimmed milk and chicken meals. Am eating more red meat and adding salt but I've crashed with sugar cravings so I'm glad I'm not TTC atm.
Thanks for your suggestions ladies.
With both girls I ate a varied diet but just lots of low-fat stuff, drank white tea and diet cola and sugar free squashes. I'm not a big fruit eater but can snack on bananas. One thing I did do and have seen is eat breakfast, just fruit and fibre and toast. My only vitamin supplement was folic acid.
Oh and hotdogz I craft: crochet is my relaxation and Daisymoo I don't know if I would be able to walk away without buying something!
Dreamingblue---Did you eat chocolates at all? I have a hard time not wanting to eat all my valentines chocolates in one sitting! haha
Daisy-I look at girl clothes too, I have even bought some, on super clearance though of course and if I have a boy I will give them away but it is great motivation. When I work out I picture my daughter in my head the entire time. I feel like this HAS to be it, this WILL work I WILL have my daughter in my arms in a years time.
I believe you will too!! :)
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I totally agree on shopping for girl things (also on clearance, Rosie)! I ended up eating chicken tacos for dinner tonight with one of my friends. I couldn't resist.. it was taco Tuesday!
I have a question and sorry if this is TMI. I went to the doctor yesterday because I had what I thought was a yeast infection. Turns out it was a UTI too. Does the LE diet make you more prone to these? I used to get them a lot when I was younger and not eating as well. And now I'm on 10 days of antibiotics to get this dreadful thing to go away.
I can't look at girl clothes in the store, I will buy something. However, I get my reminders in random ways. Clothes don't do it for me, pinterest and all the little cute bows and tutus that I want to make for her. My close friend text me yesterday and she was so excited that her daughter wanted them to play with Barbies (she is only 3). I get more motivation from that than anything. I have sort of a shopping issue lol. (I have a secret bpard on pinterest and that is where all of my ttc, pregnancy, girl stuff goes! I can dream away without anyone knowing lol.... like this it melts my heart Attachment 17065 Attachment 17066
oh the bows! The barbies...seems so far away and impossible at times. Those little ladies you posted are so cute. I don't have a pinterest board for girly things, I am sure I would have friends say mean things...it has happened before. I had one friend tell me once that she doesn't know why I want another baby and that it would just be another boy and that I shouldn't bother. argh!
dreamingpink-I would think it could be more common for utis since we are essentially unbalancing the ph in our bodies making us more susceptible. Hope you feel better soon!
Rosie you can have a secret board that only you can see!!!! Also you can invite only certain people to see it. So no one can see mine. I even had my friends go on and see how many boards they saw of mine and they didn't see my secret one! BTW that was rude of that friend. Ignore that comment.....
edit: I also took my pinterest off of facebook just in case someone could see it there.
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Secret Pinterest page are awesome. Me and a couple people have one right now for planning my SILs shower. Only us three can see it and pin stuff to it.
But I can't believe people would say mean stuff to someone for simply pinning stuff they like. Gosh, I have friends that pin WEIRD stuff. And I don't make a single comment, even if its super strange. I wouldn't even think a boy mom pinning girly stuff was weird at all. Clearly just hopes and dreams and plans. People can be so judgy about odd things!
Cool that we have a few crafters in here. I am working on a huge batch of birthday invites for my grandpa right now (60+). They are coming out good, but taking a long time (and I'm procrastinating the last bit). Next up are first birthday invites. Waaaahhhh...where did the time go?!
I may have to look into those secret boards! Sounds neat.
Has anyone else got a name list going for their future baby?! I have had one for a long while but I can't seem to find one for the boys side. I have already chosen a first name for my daughter but struggle for a middle name since DH doesn't like the one I chose. He isn't set in stone for the first name either but he will change his mind :wink:
Rosie take no notice of what people say Some people can be so horrible at times I think it's mostly out of jealousy You have as a good a chance as anybody at having a little girl. By the way if I have a girl I'd love to call her Mia And another boy, probably Charlie.
yes dreamingofpink I think your uti would probably come from your diet. Not too sure though. You should ask Atomic.
Oh my god those girlie pics are beyond cute! We'll all be buying those clothes next year!!! :D
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