Are you tracking your temperatures? I would try to mesh the low temperature with the OPK +. GL!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Tink18
Are you tracking your temperatures? I would try to mesh the low temperature with the OPK +. GL!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Tink18
Aaaaaand this is why you shouldn't dtd unprotected after CD8 or so.....I have a freaking O-3 cutoff if I ovulate today, which I probably am (early, only CD12), thanks to the DHEA I'm taking. Hooray.....and haven't been doing diet at all. If I get pg, it is a girl, for sure! Oh well, she is welcome anytime.
Thanks so much for the info about the OPK's. I wasn't drinking anything 2 hours prior but I was peeing in between! I don't have time to purchase the OPKs off of eBay/Internet so what kind do you guys buy? Someone said the digital ones work well...any suggestions? GL to all the TWWers!! Can't wait to hear the good news!
I'm like you ladies. I had no problems conceiving my 2 DDs...only DTD one time with DD2 and we just can't believe we're not pg this month. But I'm kindof glad bc I can keep playing softball for another month, and our timing was off so we probably would have been in the girl zone. It's all in the Lord's hands, but it's fun to try for a boy!! =)
Lola - Never thought I'd say this but I know you wanted to wait a few more months so fx for af, but if not that's one determined little critter :)
Hope.ful - it suck but yep few fluid AND no peeing for two hours. Glad you figured it what was up before many more months of frustration. What we do to try to tip the scales :rolleyes:
Hope: I am tracking my temp, they haven't changed at all, I just peed, Hooray! it's like xmas! I get so excited to pee on stuff now, no wonder dogs pee on everything! Anyway, I got a 2 major pink lines at 9:15. Still feeling all the same cramps as I did yesterday. Which my entire life I have always been able to feel myself ovulate. So Lola, mentioned age, I am at the cut off! I am 29!! ...So what do you think would be best? should I do the 0- 2? or just the O Ill be 30 in Feb but we will TTC before then and hopefully get pregnant before then FX!!
Lola, can you just write me plan, laminated and come stay with me? lol. Pretty please! I am back to being confuesed again and last week I felt slightly confident in my plan.
Jen, I am so with you on that! I just texted DH and was like "Should we just go for it tonight?" He is maintaining that we chill out and just hope it's a no go, but he said, "You know how I feel about gender" when I griped about it being a perfect girl sway. I mean, we used regular old lube (KY) and everything!!! And I haven't been doing the diet or drinks, ugh. He would love a girl, but it would just KILL me to spend close to a year with all this stuff only to get pg on my sway break with a perfect girl sway! Wouldn't you just want to ceaselessly kick yourself? Of course, if it ended up being a healthy little girl, then, ya know, that's all good, but still!!!!
I do have faith that swaying works, ladies, I will tell you that. Not every time, like a guarantee, but out of everyone in the past year who swayed boy that I know about from here and IG, it's about 2 girls and 10 boys!
Tink, it is totally up to you, but I don't think 29 is old at all....you could go either way. So, since you can likely get pg pretty easily and quickly, you may want to give the one shot a try the first month? Try for a 3-4 day cut off for your DH, then just bd one time about 12-18 hours after your 1st +opk. Lots of ladies have made boys that way, but I don't think it has to be done that way at all. There is a thread about which sperm would make it to the egg first which I found really intriguing.....would the older sperm or the new sperm? Most think the older as it is capacitized and waiting for the egg before the new sperm. (That is the process of the sperm shedding their exoskelelon-like head armor so it can penetrate the egg, and it takes about 3-4 hours I think....which is why it is better to dtd earlier than later on O day.) The one shot ladies had their DH not ejac in them at all before the attempt, kwim. So, they knew which batch was making the baby.
I would do whatever you feel most comfortable with, but for sure, I would do the diet 100% and take your supps and really try to up your ewcm (or use the fake ewcm- eggs or preseed). I really think those are the most important things in a sway....your diet and cm factor. Whether you dtd a lot or just once is the least factor to pay attention to, in my opinion. I will say that if you want to for sure get pg right away, I'd do it more. If you are on leisurely time table and would rather do as close to a perfect sway as possible, according to the old sources, then try the one hit wonder.
And OMG I am so not the one to ask for a swaying manual, hahaha....I have just learned from lots of mistakes in the past year, but I do really believe in the GD way of swaying and taking a more relaxed, do-what-you-can approach to it all. Trust me, when you do it hard core for a while and get bfns and have m/c, it will indeed make you CRAZY.....lots of us long-timers have had to take breaks and chill on the swaying to prevent divorce and insanity!
Lola, that is cray-Z about your "accident" ... but it is what it is, and I'm with Jen ... that would be one determined little bean! And it totally could still be a boy if you are pg.
ITA by the way that I think swaying works. I used to be more on the fence about it, but having seen SO many sways and the outcomes in the last 9 months, I am with you ... it really seems to be about 80/20. And I also agree that DIET DIET DIET is key.
I'd love to hit timing right but the odds are we won't. Dh doesn't want to sway (though I know he would love a son.. I think he doesn't want to get his hopes up honestly) so it isn't like he's going to be cool with NOT BD for 4 days, LOL. We aren't like horny teenagers or anything but 4 day abstinence will be hard to pull off. I'll probably get an 0-2 and an 0. We'll see.
Today I was wondering if I already had a boy and a girl what I would want for #3. I definitely want 3 (though these days I can't say why, for crying out loud my kids are crazy lately) but I wonder if I had one of each if I'd have a preference. Hard to say.
Gotta run so sorry no personals but hope everyone is doing well! Haven't seen TTC5 post this am so will assume she's busy POAS :-)
Wow, thought you were going to wait for a bit. Did you not expect to have a +opk. Will you dtd again today. GL, you never know it could a boy. I sooo agree with you & atomic that diet is the most important thing in swaying, i also think since the Shettles method we find it difficult to get the timing method out of our heads i mean take a look at the many FF charts that prove that you can get a boy with frequent bdingQuote:
Originally Posted by LolaInLove
I too would love to hit timing with abstinence but with my irregular cycles there's no way in hell it can happen for me. You ladies with cycles that know that cd14 is ovulation are damn lucky, it's easy then to plan your abstinence etc. Lucky, lucky youQuote:
Originally Posted by begonia