Congrats babydust! Hope I hear pink when my turn comes! :)
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Congrats babydust! Hope I hear pink when my turn comes! :)
Aw, thank you sweet mummy! :)
Wish me luck ladies!! I just got positive OPK. Not exactly the bd pattern I wanted but today is cd23 for me I was so tired of BD we took a break last night. I put in some rephresh earlier and will be ready for tonight ;-) Thank GOD too! I dropped down from 100lbs to 98/99. I plan on sticking with low sugar but will add a bit more calories to my meals. praying for a healthy sticky beautiful girl
O pains suck!
Hi everyone, thought I'd join this thread since I'm really struggling with the diet but still trying to stick to it loosely plus other bits & bobs but trying not to stress about it all. Looking forward to getting to know you all xxx
welcome fellow lazy swayer. Its not very active at all here, glad to see you join us/me. lol
Hi Big Christa, it's kind of nice when it's quiet, sometimes theres too many people to keep up with!! How are you doing? What kind of thing are you doing to lazy sway? xx
Hi and welcome! :)
I probably belong in this thread. I'm not doing the LE diet. I tried it in the summer but couldn't do it for health reasons. I'm doing a vegetarian version of the French diet instead. I can't lose any weight because I'm already underweight.
I'm pretty much not doing anything else to sway, So it's going to be a very light sway.
I think that when I was TTC my boys I inadvertently swayed blue, my diet was boy friendly and I was doing everything I could to increase fertility, using preseed and taking loads of fertility boosting supplements. So I'm hoping that by not doing that stuff this time it will make a difference.
6boys- That is tru, the big groups are some times hard to keep up with, especially if its an active group. I'm very lose on the girl diet. I still eat meats, but ive cut back. Insead of having a meat for lunch I'll eat something meatless. I stopped adding salt to my foods. I'm doing rephresh and crystal light with FR. Im in my 2ww right now and am trying to put some weight back on so If this cycle is a bust I'll have some room to lose a pound.
pangea- Welcome!! After doing a lot of reading I think I was "swaying" blue with my 4 boys. feel free to post. It gets pretty lonely over here.
Hi babydust, hi Pangea!!
Bigchrista - I'm currently on 2nd month ttc pink and it hit me really hard when I got a BFN last month that I've relaxed things quite a lot this time. I know, patience isn't my strong point but saw palmetto is helping with the short fuse!!
This time I am taking saw palmetto, vitex, baby aspirin, folic acid and loosely flowing LE diet ( cut back on everything & lost 6 pounds) no breakfast ever, no rephresh this month but still doing FR til +opk.
Think I could be more strict with diet but its just chocolate :-(
Hope everyone of us gets our lazy baby's very soon xxx
I am still lazy. Sometimes I think it's because deep down I feel like I won't get my DG anyway, so why torture myself with the full on diet...
I am taking baby aspirin, drinking CL and diet coke, no breakfast 90% of the time, eating less meat, but still eating some and lost about 4 or 5 pounds. I also take folic acid. I stopped using Rephresh this cycle as I need to get preggo sooner so I stopped all of that type thing. I laid there after dtd instead of J&D. I hate that we can't do FR, but DH just can't, so we are probably pushing more boy on that aspect. I have also been battling a cold/sick for the past almost 2 weeks.... I'll be glad once I am preggo so I can start my obsession over what the sex is instead of getting pregnant.
my three sons, I got my girl wihotu doing FR! Perfect boy frequency.
from what I remember from the studies, those men with naturally low sperm counts only have a small % more daughters anyway. It's a statistically significant percentage but still a small one. I wouldn't feel too bad about dropping that if it gets you pregnant.Quote:
Originally Posted by My Three Sons
Well today, DH informs me that he knows why I haven't gotten pregnant yet.... I still nurse my 18 month old 1x every other morning or so.... I told him that doesn't matter, that whle BF can decrease the chances of pregnancy, that plenty have got their BFP while nursing much more often than me. I don't think I nurse enought to affect my ovulation, plus I have been getting a thermal shift each month. He read one thing online and now he thinks he is an expert....
Yes, breastfeeding affects different people differently. I got pregnant and I'm still nursing my son who is now 17 months. Although he bit me so hard, the other night that I had to use an ice pack. It hurt so much and my breasts are so sensitive from early pregnancy. Let's just say his days are numbered, I'm cutting back his feeds. And slowly weaning him. He was feeding a lot still when i got pregnant.
If you are getting regular cycles and are getting a thermal shift you should be ovulating. Have you tried opks just to back up what you suspect?
agree breastfeeding can affect people/fertility differently:
prevent ovulation
delayed ovulation
luteal phase defect (it affected me this way)
less/more hostile CM
but in general it doesn't have to prevent you getting pregnant and if #1 and#3 are normal you shouldn't have any major issues. It certainly shouldn't prevent a fertilised egg implanting or risk an early pregnancy
I got my BFP whilst still BF twice a day
I have been getting positive OPKs, seeing a thermal shift and only BF once every couple of days or so. I thought my last cycle was short but then going back through my FF charts, that has happened in years past without BF. I usually O on CD 11 or 12 and have a luteal phase of anywhere between 11 to 13 days or so. My previous BFPs took a few months too, so I think that it just takes me a few months to get preggo. Although DH doesn't remember that, but I have my FF charts still... I do have quite a bit of EWCM each month and it's about PH 4.5 - 5.5 consistently. I didn't do rephresh this cycle just in case....
6boysneeds- On the chocolate- we can have milk chocolate, Ithink the key to it is not eating it all day (snacking) but if you need a little pick me up after lunch before dinner. I think its okay
my3sons- no worries on the timing issues. THose "old theories" have been dubunked. I'm still nursing my 21 month old. He nurses an average of twice a day. Once for nap and again at bed time. As long as you are ovulating and have a LP longer than 10 days,. I think you are good.
Im 9dpo. In all honesty I hope this isn't my month. I had so many diet cheats its not even funny! I think the only thing that I did to sway is CL, rephresh, and losing 3 or 4 lbs, I lost so much weight (went from 100 lbs to 97) that I had stop the swaying diet in the 2ww. I hope to put on enough weight that once AF is gone I can start with the diet again and lose a only a pound or two.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...a/IMAG1662.jpg
The top is 9dpo the bottom is 10dpo.
well this may be it for me. I'll have to call my doc on Monday and ask for a progestrone supp if they continue to get darker
Yay! Congrats!!!!
I just tested and the line is still "iffy" I'm still gonna go out and buy more tests today, but at this point I'm not getting my hopes up.
edited to add: I tested with a 2.5 hr hold with my morning coffe and a few drinks of water. maybe it was diluted but still not getting my hopes up just yet.
Well as of now "A line is a line" -AS
And you are pregnant! :) But I will wait to formally congratulate you
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...a/IMAG1678.jpg
okay I'm convinced now. Just hoping and praying for a healthy pink bundle. I had a horrible sway when it came to my eating. :/ Oh well.
yaaay Big Christa, congratulations!!! So pleased for you!! I'm praying for a pink bundle for you xxxxx
Congratulations bigchrista!! I hope this is your girl!!
:fx: Christa!!!
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YAY, Christa.. definite BFP!!!
Happy & Healthy 9 Months! :pregnant:
Thanks ladies!! I started spotting tues. started my progestrone yesterday. I had betas drawn yesterday and will have my repete on Monday. The lab slip for monday says "stat" so I'm hoping to get those results mid day monday.
Praying for you Christa! Healthy sticky pink bean! Keep us posted. And for what it's worth my lines stayed pretty light for a few days before I noticed a change. Things are going good so you will be fine hunnie! Congrats!!
just wanted to come here and say I'm 7weeks and still going. My first appt is set for tomorrow where I will be getting an u/s to check for a HB. prayer and fingers crossed.
**update** My appt didn't go as I'd hoped it would. U/s showed a tiny body measuring 6wks 1day. one week behind my calculations (using ff opks and sketchy temps) My Ob was using the little u/s machine that rolls around from room to room. We could see the body but couldn't detect a HB. I go back next week to hopfully see a growing baby with a beating heart.
:pray: for good news Christa.
Thanks ladies for your support. I had loss #6 and d&c number 5 last week.
I'm so sorry for your loss. Do you plan on trying again? And have the docs said anything about all of your losses?
Oh I'm so sorry Christa. :( Thinking of you.
Thanks ladies!! Not sure about our ttc future. As far as my multipul losses. I have a genetic translocation. So my chances are higher for having miscarriages. My doc suggested ivf, with 4 boys and the cost associated with that; its just not in the cards. If I didn't have any children or maybe just one child I might of went that way. At this point, I'm just going on faith.
I did have a dream a few weeks ago though, I had an u/s at what looked like 10 weeks. The baby was just wiggling around, as I was telling my hubby about the dream he said and it was a boy wasn't it?!! Lol and sure enough in my dream it was a boy. Lol
HI big christa, I too have had several losses, including my 5th boy in October, so I can relate ((hugs))
Its funny you say that about the dream, because I had one too which does inspire me to keep trying. In my dream, there is a new-fangled ultrasound machine, which can beam the baby out to you...so you can "hold" the image of your baby and see what it looks like etc. Its such a cool machine :) But in my dream I see my baby and he is a boy, and he has little freckles..like I can see and remember where his freckles are and its such a good feeling holding him and I love THAT baby and wish he would just get here already! Good luck xx
Hi ladies, I'm going to unsticky this thread, if you keep using it regularly it will stay at the top of the rotation! Sorry, I know it's less convenient but it's too confusing for people with all the stickies we have going on.