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Thanks Atomic. What is the best way to go in ur opinion? That I try to keep the same weight (61kg) until when I'm going to ttc in December? Or should I try to lose some weight now so I gain weight again just before ttc? Or should I try to keep the weight at 61kg and just before I should ttc increase the weight 1-2 kg? Then I will weigh 62-63 kg, which means that I gained about 6 kg from when I got my daughter.Quote:
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Please just try to hold steady. Don't lose weight to regain it, that only depletes your reserves for no reason. We have no evidence that gaining weight right at the moment of conception does anything at all for a sway.
Thanks Atomic, I read that flaxseed (linseed) can sway pink. I usually eat crispbread that contains flaxseed. Do you think it could be a risk?Quote:
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I don't like anyone to have flaxseed more than 2-3 times per week (and if you've been having it daily for a while, I think you should drop it for a few months totally before eating it again). It definitely has hormonal effects and may be quite harmful in large amounts during pregnancy.
Hi again Atomic. I feel like I'm starting to have a good look at my blue sway in terms of diet, exercise, vitamins and bd. What still worries me a lot and makes me nervous is the personality factor. I don't know what to do to get a more boy mom personality. I have no opportunity to play games, nor do I have time to take on challenges. I keep trying to think I can have a son, but it's not that easy. very often I think I can't have a son. What should I do? [emoji20]Quote:
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I also wonder if it is ok to eat oatmeal every day and is a BMI of 23.1 ok for blue? Thank u!!
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Reline, your questions have all been very "boy-mom-ish". Don't worry about that.
Everyone can have a son or a daughter.
Yes, it is fine to eat oatmeal every day.
BMI 23 is fine for blue.
Thanks Atomic! That makes me happy. I really hope so.Quote:
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Hi Atomic! The last few weeks I have felt that I have had low blood pressure, it has been a long time since I had low blood pressure, but I often used to have it before I started swaying and often at that time when I got my daughter. I wonder if the reason is that I have eaten a little too healthy the past few weeks. I eat very little carbs, I eat mostly chicken, eggs, cheese, yogurt, nuts, fruits and vegetables. I do this in order not to gain weight and I have managed to keep the same weight in recent weeks (61-62kg). I try to eat all the time, I never let myself get hungry, but I'm afraid I eat a little too healthy? So I'm getting pinkfriendly? I'm not losing weight, but since I've started to feel low blood pressure sometimes, I'm afraid I've become punkfriendly. I find it a bit difficult to find a balance between following the HE-diet but at the same time not gaining too much weight. Thanks for your advice Atomic!Quote:
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There's nothing pink friendly about any of that. Keep doing what you're doing. Have you checked your blood pressure or are you just assuming??
EAting a bit of extra sodium will help so if you haven't been salting your foods, I would salt to taste.
Hi Atomic. When you follow the blue diet, it is good if you stay hydrated. Does it matter in the way you stay hydrated? I mean is it as good to drink water as to drink a cup of tea? Or is it the tea / caffeine itself that is good for blue? I drink quite a lot of water during the day, but if I also drink tea and coconut water or juice I then need to pee in the middle of the night and wake up to go to the bathroom so I have trouble falling asleep again, which affects my sleep. Do you think I should try to drink a little less water so there is room for other liquids such as tea and juice / coconut water?Quote:
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I also wonder if chia seeds are bad for DH. I have stopped eating chia seeds and flaxseed but should he stop too? Is there food that is bad for DH, I mean that is bad for his semen?
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Yes please drink less water. All liquids are the same for our purposes.
I would have DH drop the flax seed for sure and possibly the chia. I don't trust flaxseeds for swaying at all and the chia are very much of an unknown
Sorry Atomic, but I didn't really understand. Do you think I should drink less water but increase the drinking of other liquids? Or reduce the drinking of all liquids? Thank u!Quote:
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I think you should drink to your level of thirst but it is ok to use things like tea and juice to do that. You DO NOT need to drink all that tea, juice, milk, coconut water, etc and then ALSO drink water. It's fine to only have the tea, juice, milk, coco water. Lemon water is NOT important, I am fine with you guys dropping that. I never drank lemon water and only rarely had plain water when I got my boys.
I don't want you miserable waking up in the night to pee. Go ahead and cut back, cut back on plain water first, then lemon water, and use the other beverages to make up your liquid intake.
Hi Atomic! I haven't written here in a while. I wonder how to do with the supplements when you get pregnant? Which supplements should you continue with and which ones should you stop with? The supplements you should stop with, how should you wean off? Today I takeQuote:
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two tablets Multivitamin
25 µg vitamin D
1900 µg folic acid
500 mg fish oil
priobiotic
241 mg magnesium.
When I need to wean off a certain supplement, how do I do it? Do I start taking every other day, then every third day etc? Thank u for ur answer!
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What multivitamin are you taking?
The multivitamin (probably, once I have checked the brand), the probiotic, and the Vit. D are safe all thru pregnancy.
Fish oil, I would take every other day thru pregnancy
Magnesium - is there any magnesium in your multivitamin?? If not, it's fine to continue all thru pregnancy. If there is magnesium in your prenatal I would have you wean off now by spacing doses further and further (just like you describe, every other dy, then every 2, etc) till down to one per week, then you can drop them.
The folic acid, continue at that dose till the end of the first trimester of pregnancy, then wean back to the amount in a prenatal by slowly spacing doses further and further out till down to just the amount in the prenatal.
Thanks Atomic! This is what my multivitamin contains: https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...5afaf1f40c.jpgQuote:
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I usually take two tabletts a day of my multivitamin.
Do u think i have to continue with the priobiotic? Or can I drop them?
My multivitamin contain 58 mg magnesium a tablett and i usually take two. Then i take additionally 125 mg magnesium. So i take a total of 241 mg magnesium a day. Thank u!!
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Ok. I guess it's all right to take two since most of the nutrients are lower dose.
You can continue with that amount of magnesium all thru pregnancy.
You don't HAVE to take probiotic but many sources think it's a good idea to take them during pregnancy.
Thank u Atomic for ur quick answer! One more thing. Do I have to take a special type of fish oil for pregnant or can I continue with mine? Should I start taking fish oil every other day from tomorrow?Quote:
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Nope you can just continue!
Sure you can take it every other day whenever you want to!!! that is how you'd start weaning off it anyway
Hi Atomic. I haven't written here in a long time. I did sway blue in December and got pregnant from the first attempt but a week ago I got a miscarriage. I was in weak 12. I'm totally devastated. I made a perfect sway. I couldn't believe how everything could sit so perfectly. Everything became perfect, my diet, my workout, my weight, my vitamins, the vitamins of dh, his realeses, the number of attempts. I know many people get miscarriage and it is very common but I still can't understand how I could get it, when I ate so healthy, took vitamins, none of us smokes, none of us drink alcohol, my last pregnancy was completely without complications, we have never had a miscarriage in our family, my period and my ovulation came at the exact time each month. Both me and my husband have always been perfectly healthy. How can you get a miscarriage after all this? I can't help but think of the vitamins I ate. If it could have affected the fetus? I continue to eat the same amount of vitamin D and the same amount of folic acid, I reduced the fish oil to every other day instead of every day, continued with magnesium. Could this amount have affected the fetus? Do you have any experience of people who have swayed blue and had miscarriage? I know there is no answer to why I got miscarriage, but Im just trying to understand, maybe to try to feel a little better.Quote:
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Most miscarriages have nothing to do with anything you did or didn't do, it's just that something went wrong. Nothing in the blue sway should contribute to miscarriage in any way. I would definitely have your thyroid checked as sometmes thyroid problems are associated with later losses at about 12 weeks. But in most cases we never know why they occurred.
Were you weaning off folic acid at that point??
I tested for the thyroid in week 6 and I had to take medicine for my thyroid so I started using medicine immediately. I had the same problem in my pregnancy with my daughter but it was not detected as early as this time, but it was discovered after two months. I started wean off the folic acid in week 10. I used to take 3 folic acid tablets a day a 500 µg. I stopped with one of the tablets in week 10 then the week after I stopped with another tablet then I got my miscarriage. Should I have stopped using folic acid earlier? Can too much folic acid cause miscarriage?Quote:
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No, you came off the tablets just fine. Many people drop folic acid all of a sudden at 12 weeks and we suspect this may cause some losses.
I hope it's obvious I would not have you guys take extra folic acid if it could cause miscarriage. Folic acid PREVENTS miscarriage and I want you to do what you did in any subsequent pregnancies.
The two most likely causes of miscarriage at 12 weeks are thyroid and chromosomal abnormalities. I think they need to get you on thyroid medication immediately upon BFN this time. Chromosomal abnormalities are like lighting, they usually don't strike twice in the same place (although I know that is little consolation) and the odds are good you will not have another loss. :heart:
Thanks Atomic, I read this that u wrote on one thread; ”Once you've had more than one loss and particularly 3 or more, I strongly suggest dropping folic acid all together (even in fortified foods) and switching over to folate only”.Quote:
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Is it only if u have had more than one loss? Can some people not take folic acid? I feel like if i had another loss i wouldnt try again cause its to hard to go through.
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It is fine if you'd like to switch to folate. It is not something I recommend for one loss. Yes, a small minority of people don't tolerate folic acid well (but most of them already are aware of that.) Everyone can tolerate folate perfectly fine. So if you'd like to switch to folate that's fine.
I understand it is so tempting to want to find something that you can point to and say "aha this is the thing that I can change that will guarantee I don't have a loss". But unfortunately, there is no guarantee I can give you (if there was, I'd already have you do that thing!) Even switching to folate is not a guarantee. I just want you to understand that so you can make peace with the idea that this was nothing you did or didn't do.
Hi Atomic! Whats ur opinion on ice cream when swaying boy? Thank u!Quote:
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i ate tons of it when I got my boys. I am completely fine with you guys having ice cream as a part of a sway diet, just don't make it a food group unto itself (especially if you're gaining lots of weight fast)
Hi Atomic, I did a boysway in December and got pregnant immediately then I had a miscarriage in February, the doctor said that it seems that the fetus stopped developing already in week 6. I did another sway this June and got pregnant again from the first attempt and now I had a miscarriage in week 6 again. I'm completely broken, I do not know what to do or how to continue living. I do not understand what is wrong. I have always had very regular periods and ovulation. Do you have any experience of someone who has been in the same situation as me? I get mad thinking that there's something about the boy sway that makes me miscarry. I had a completely flawless pregnancy with my daughter without any complications. Please give me an answer, please help me!Quote:
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Oh no I'm so so sorry.
There is nothing in the blue sway that could cause any harm, but please tell me what exactly you were taking in terms of supplements. Sometimes people start taking supplements that are not what I recommend and I just want to rule that out. Even things that seem harmless like herbal teas, I want to know about them.
I would have testing done to be sure you don't have any underlying conditions that may be causing this. Some people can have one healthy pregnancy and then after that they have issues with their body attacking the fetus so we need to be sure you don't have that going on.
I have only taken vitamin D, folic acid, my multivitamin, fish oil (500mg), priobotic and magnesium (125mg). You've looked at my vitamins before and approved them. I have not taken anything more. I have stayed away from all herbs, I drink no tea, no soft drinks, no caffeine, no alcohol. I do not take anything that has sweeteners or additives. I have only used natural ingredients. One thing I keep in mind is that I usually need to take medicine for my thyroid gland when I get pregnant. I would be tested for this in a week, when I enter week 7. Could that be the reason for my miscarriages? That I must take the medicine immediately when I test positive for pregnancy? When I was pregnant with my daughter, I started taking thyroid medicine only after 1-2 months into the pregnancy.Quote:
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Yes it absolutely can, they need to test your thyroid immediately and possibly even have you take the medicine before you conceive.