this is very good information. I want to thank everyone who is posting. Send us all the pink baby dust that you can.
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this is very good information. I want to thank everyone who is posting. Send us all the pink baby dust that you can.
I have a DD and will be TTC a DS in the summer. I thought I would add how I got my lovely DD as I did not intentionally sway at the time, but have come to realize how girl friendly my diet was. We had been TTC for 10 cycles and I was getting frustrated. I began dieting to lose weight and get my mind off TTC. I ate an unknowingly LE diet - always the low calorie/fat option - LF cottage cheese, cucumbers, green beans, lean protein like chicken and extra lean turkey burger, light yogurt, FF salad dressing, diet soda, egg whites, light parmesan cheese on steamed veggies and I always tried to avoid salt. Plus, I was doing low carb. I hope this helps!
Thank you so much!!! Welcome!
I would LOVE to do a study in the general population about months to conception and genders of babies conceived. I know SO many people who took several months to fall pregnant (not every time, but at least once in their childbearing years) and have more girls than boys overall. In the meanwhile many of us all boy moms are 1-2 months and pg, even over the span of decades!
Ya as a boy mom I've wondered that too! Like one cycle per boy here, and with a dear friend - 10-11 months TTC and got girls (2x). Wonder if there is a thing there.
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It took my SIL 12 months TTC and she is having a girl. I have a DD, we DTD once and were NOT trying
Pebbles I hope I land this one as a one shot wonder lol
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Has anyone conceived a girl having gained weight? Im trying to conceive and would love a girl but I'm gaining weight and don't know why. I'm skipping breakfast and eating healthy. No red meat...I live a busy lifestyle so I work out when I can. I do walk though. With our recent attempt we did extreme frequent release
Are you tracking your cals on my fitness pal mama?Quote:
Originally Posted by MamaLuv
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I'm not sure I posted here but will again just in case! I have 2 DDs with 2 different hubbies. #1 I was eating a lot of everything, unhealthy, overweight, & a smoker.. She was a pull out oopsie baby.. #2 I was a lot healthier, walking an hour everyday, still eating meat, but also still smoking . She also was a pull out oopsie baby! You would have thought I'd learn my lesson, lol!! Let's see, so both I smoked, drank a lot of coffee, and pull out! Have all my pink dust! Plz give me your blue!!! :)
Very curious about this as well! What I've also noticed is that a lot of women conceive their first baby girl by surprise and then go on to have planned pregnancies and make boys. So they would naturally conceive a girl, change their life for health benefits for their child, so eat healthier, take vitamins etc and then go on to have boys. Maybe that's something I notice more because thats how it worked for me, but would still be interesting to know.Quote:
Originally Posted by atomic sagebrush
How I accidentally conceived my girl: we were not trying, so when DH oopsied inside of me I jumped and dumped as much as I could in the toilet. I had just started dieting to loose weight, doing a lot of walking and eating LE. I'm a vegetarian also and was a heavy smoker. With my boy pregnancies I did everything opposite to my girl pregnancy. Not eating meat still, but taking loads of B12 and other vitamins to up my health.
You need to switch to one of the alternate diets in this thread. http://genderdreaming.com/forum/gend...rt-3-pcos.htmlQuote:
Originally Posted by MamaLuv
I also see that trend A LOT. There are even some famous people like Eleanor Roosevelt and Mel Gibson and his first wife who had an eldest girl and then 5-6-7 boys in a row.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dana-Alicia
Ya I was taking note of the oopsie thing too. I believe it's the lack stress. I have a friend in AZ who got pregnant by mistake - Dh has like 4 boys, then they have 2 together and "oopsie" was a girl.
I kinda wish the oopsie would happen to me, yet I can let go of "the plan, the sway" bc I feel I need to give it my all....
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I worry too that stress is a major factor. I can't stop needing a sense of control over things. Although it stresses me out because when I fail by letting the diet slip I get more stressed and worried. It's a funny thing as even if we do nothing we may still get a girl. It's just the unknown and the lack of control over future genders that stresses me out. Its also the worry of feeling like you've not tried enough to get your desired gender. On the one hand I want to give it my all and then I know i did all I could, but on the other I may feel I've sacrificed my life a bit if I get the opposite gender and even maybe compromised my sway by getting so stressed.
Stress does not sway blue! (I can still 'hear' AS shouting it lol) It really doesn't! There are different types of stress, like competitive stress and exhausted stress to make ends meet for example. So either way I would not worry about stress at all, focus on diet and exercise, don't worry about stress!
It's not stress, it's being a control freak. PLEASE DO NOT STRESS ABOUT STRESS, THAT SIMPLY ADDS STRESS!
Bahaha I had already written the above post in all caps before reading this LOL.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dana-Alicia
Studies have actually shown that "real" stress, ya know, things that are actually bad like losing your job, death in the family, illness, etc. sway pink, not blue. It's the things we feel like we can control, and the trying to, that sways blue.
Lol it's so hard though, not stressing about stress.
Thought i'd post here but i seem to be the exception, not the rule. Currently pregnant with my 3rd girl per the latest ultrasound tech, however i dont lead a very girl friendly life style...so who knows what the heck has happened. I eat tons of fast food, tons of canned food, im always snacking...i do drink whole milk but its an occasional thing...with donuts or cereal or pancakes..typical "this would go good with a glass of milk" type foods. huge fiend on soda, probably dont get enough water by any means. Tons of red meat...very little excersise. I am a very 'sensitive' person though...sensitive to stress, sensitive to life in general and have not had the easiest last 10 years or so. This latest pregnancy pre attempt i was on a prenatal vitamin for 7 months trying to get pregnant before i got pregnant, had to use clomid to even conceive, and when it came to my actual fertile window i seemed to hit it just right since i was being monitored by the fertility specialist..had a positive ovulation test on a friday, DTD with husband that friday night, twice saturday, and twice sunday. Used pre-seed saturday and sunday and from baby's measurements safe to say she was conceived one of those two days...
Only thing i can come up with in my situation that was girl friendly was maybe too frequent a release during my fertile window, my sensitivity issues, or by some miracle of god i have way more calcium/dairy intake than im actually aware of.....or for some reason even with pre-seed im extremely hostile to Y sperm.
Not sure anyone should take anything from my post lol..more just to show there are definitely some exceptions to every rule and im sure there are other ladies who by all means according to diet etc would be more 'boy friendly' but somehow end up with a girl or more girls than boys...
Doesn't clomid sway pink? I never swayed, but for some reason thought clomid swayed pink?9
My understanding is clomid shouldnt be a stronger sway than diet.. Heck the boy diet + pre-seed should have overrode the clomid but i agree it seems in my case it did not. My diet has never changed though really... And i didnt need clomid with the first two pregnancies and they were still girls. So it sorta goes back to something in my diet or 'sensitivities' or something else about me makes me hostile to Y sperm. Hubby has a high count naturally too which ive heard should also sway blue
was it EWCM or CM when u did your deed?
I didnt really get EWCM...i never really have that ive noticed but this time attributed it to the clomid since i was paying close attention. I had an appointment with doc that same friday where they did an ultrasound saw one big ready to pop egg... I had already tested that am and got a negative OPK then around 8 at night tested again and got my positive..
Yes, Clomid sways pink and no we don't know that diet counteracts it. It helps and if you need Clomid you need it and can def. get a boy on it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pebbles&BamBam
I'm sorry it didn't go your way Burk.
i suspect there is correlation on ewcm for boy and cm for girl. I had ewcm both times doing the deed when conceived my boys. DS2 was failed shettles method who conceived two days before O
It could have been something different every time or it could have been just sheer bad luck. Even if you come into something 80% set, there is still that 20% and that seems to be as good as we can get with swaying. If swaying was 100% possible, the whole human race would have died out a long time ago.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burakoam
I have two dds and my main reason for dds i think would be.... i always use to skip meals or delay my food eating... i usually get carried away with other work and dont eat on time. Not a big fan of sweet things except choclates and never ever exercise so sacrifice my food for staying slim ... dont like vegies and fruits either ... and plus may be genetics count we are a family of four sisters and one brother :)
I know atomic i also believe in some situations its not bad luck so much as maybe actually fate. Princess-i believe you are right especially where im concerned because im not sure i have ever had EWCM.. At least not enough for a happy Y sperm. I really thought pre-seed would encourage a boy.. First time i had also used that in the 7 months of trying... Nope but it did get me pregnant so still worked to a degree lol
Hi,
Thought I'd give away some of my pink dust...
For my two girls I'd say the key thing for me was barely eatting. I was never trying to "sway" but my lifestyle is pure girl. I could wake up at 6 with the hubby and have him make me a tea, which I would only take a few sips from. Or it would be a coffee. The next time I would eat anything could easily be well after 12pm!! Often this choice food would be a pack of fruit gushers(total sugary garbage) or some other convenient snack. Basically the only meal I was guaranteed to make time for was dinner!
Both my girls were conceived first cycle off the pill actually all my pregnancies were but only 2 were to term.
Key "foods" I ate before conception were:
Yogurt-low fat kinds
Fruit gushers
Milk duds
Cookies
Soy milk
Tuna/old cheese sandwiches
Chicken shawarmas
Apple pie
Donuts-glazed/maple
Those five cent candies
And the juices I drank were almost always from concentrate
I also took chewable cranberry vitamin c tablets religiously
I barely drank water and it showed with my CM
Things I did:
Walked everywhere
Cardio 3-5 times a week
NEVER ate breakfast
Had sex everyday sometimes multiple times a day (I'm nervous about this one for my boy sway)
Was very chill as I used to indulge in some special cigs
Looking back/now that I'm doing the boy diet I'm amazed I even conceived!! I feel "bigger" already (it's only been a week lol) but so much healthier.
Good luck ladies!
This thread is really good. Thanks to everyone who's sharing their pink dust.
Does anyone know if dtd once at ovulation is better than dtd everyday for 7 days? IT seems like a lot of people dtd really regularly. I feel we might have more chance dtd everyday for a week although we don't have the highest sex drives so might be hard.
We are getting such outstanding results with the one attempt that I find it VERY risky for you guys to DTD every day for 7 days. Just because some of these gals got girls doing that, you have to realize that most of them were doing tons of things that were pink friendly (and even under ideal circumstances we are seeing swaying have a theoretical limit of about 75-80% maximum.)
PLEASE PLEASE try e very 4 days or even every 3 days before starting to DTD every day. NOt only may it sway blue, but it's not really going to helpyou conceive anyway because DH will be depleted in his sperm numbers before you can even get pregnant from it. It's the worst of both worlds.
Ok thanks atomic
Does anyone remember which side they think they ovulated from when they got their girls? I read somewhere that girls are more likely when ovulating from the left but Im sure that's probably a myth ?
Please don't worry or put much stock into this. I ovulated and the placenta was on the left side for this pregnancy, and we are having a boy (Ramzi theory would say girl).Quote:
Originally Posted by Bobster
Trying to determine gender from anything other than non-invasive prenatal screening tests or anatomy scans is really pointless [emoji6].
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It's actually not a myth and I need an essay on it but when researchers looked at a 3 month pattern, patterns that were L, L, R were boys 75% of the time. Some of the other patterns that went from R to L ovulation were slightly more likley to end with a female conception but nothing anywhere as high as the 75% from the L, L, R pattern and boys. So you can see that something that has to be 3 MONTHS of knowing what side you ovulated from, only to end up with 75% success AT BEST (and that is for boys). It is impractical (impossible) to utilize this for swaying and is just something that is interesting because of what it tells us about how this works, not because it is any kind of feasible method and certainly totally completely and totally not something that anyone should put more than the most passing of thoughts into (except me because I find it freaking fascinating LOL)Quote:
Originally Posted by Bobster
It is almost 100% certain that it has NOTHING to do with the ovary itself, it is because it's been proven that most women have a dominant right ovary and you tend to O from that side most of the time as long as things are going well, your fertility is good, and your condition is good. What happens is that when fertility declines, the right ovary closes down shop and the lefty takes over for reasons we have no clue about, and thus it seems to be an artifact of declining/improving condition - a woman who is going from repeatedly Oing from the left side, to Oing from the right, seems to be experiencing an improvement in condition = more boys. :) Weird, weird, weird, and wonderful.
Since most women O primarily from one dominant ovary, and most often the right ovary, and since more 160 boys are conceived for every 100 girls, I wonder if that alone suggests more (but FAR from all) girls than boys come from the left ovary.
This is the topic which is going on in my head now ...i m 5dpo now ..at the time i ovulated i was feeling pain on both sides not sure of tht was ov pain or what but tht day i ovulated and now after 5 days whenever i feel any pain/sensation on my left side i get worried if my sway has not worked and implantation is happening on left ... i know its silly its not 100% but thts what going on in my head now :/
But atomic and xxforhubby u r right i should not bother much there are positive examples also to follow [emoji4]
You can feel O pain on both or either side and it doesn't tell you where you are ovulating from. You develop 15-30 eggs on both sides every month and only one or two of those eggs are released. The rest are not, and this causes pain in both sides. Both fallopian tubes also cramp after ovulation and this can cause pain as well. It can actually be worse in the side that doesn't ovulate because the pressure is released when the egg pops. I have talked to TONS of ladies who had strong one sided O pains and actually found out later that they Oed from the other side.Quote:
Originally Posted by goodmom
you CANNOT feel pain from implantation. It is absolutely impossible. The ball of cells is so small that it cannot be felt. IF you could feel implantation occur, your uterus would be so unbelievably sensitive that pregnancy and childbirth would be unbearable. For reasons we don't know, people often feel pain in one spot or the other for a while then it moves around to a different spot here or there, it's probably the stretching of tissues or swelling or inflammation. I've had pregnancies where I felt pain here for a week, there for a week, pretty much the whole first trimester and it had nothing to do with where the placenta even was. :)
This is so interesting. I always ONLY felt pains or anything on the right side. Never anything on the left. Now in the last couple of years, it's both sides. Hmmm.
You can't tell anything based on O pain. I know it's tough to wrap the old brain around, but it's 100% true. The stuff you feel going on below the equator around ovulation isn't necessarily even coming from the ovary. So much goes on around ovulation both physically and hormonally that it can be all sorts of things causing O pain and is totally unreliable.