Originally Posted by
Erin514
Hi,
Mom to two gorgeous boys over here. My diet was quite different between the two, the only commonalities were that I have always been a big grazer, mainly with healthy snacks like nuts, my weight remained consistent, and I exercised with light to moderate cardio and weight training 3-4 times a week. Other than that the circumstances of the two pregnancies were night and day.
DS1 was accidentally conceived on CD2 of a 28-day cycle (don't ask me how this is even possible, but that was the only day we BD without a condom, thinking we were safe. So much for Shettles!) I was only eating meat about 1-2x per week. My diet was fairly healthy with a lot of whole foods. I didn't drink milk but I would have yogurt with my breakfast. I had coffee once a day.
DS2 was planned and I was trying to sway pink with the FGD. We DTD every 2 days the cycle he was conceived. I took calcium & magnesium supplements, drank about 3 c of milk and 2-3 bowls of yogurt per day, and I loaded up on beans and nuts while reducing meat, potassium and sodium. I was still nursing DS1 maybe 4-5 times at night and early morning, but I worked full time and had stopped pumping during the day by then. I didn't drink coffee because I was breastfeeding. After reading a lot of Atomic's posts here I wonder if the reason my sway failed was because my diet was too nutrient dense. We tried to prepare really dense, rich super-foods for our toddler so lots of avocado, kale, homemade veggie juices, and not much in the way of simple carbs. And of course all my calcium-laden foods for the FGD were full-fat.