Newbie here from the UK TTC a girl to join our lovely family :)
Hi Everyone,
I've been one of those lurkers on here for a few months but finally think I should introduce myself and get in the mix as have just started my LE diet in preparation for ttc a baby girl in the new year. I have just turned 30, have a wonderful husband who is soon to be 33 and I'm mum to a beautiful boy called Blake who is 18months old.
Even though he was my first child, I did have a bit of gender dissappointment with Blake when we found out-obviously now I wouldn't change a thing and am just happy he's healthy and lovely but I just had always imagined myself with a little girl, having a lovely close relationship with her like I've always had with my mum. My hubby, while brilliant, didn't really see himself married with any children but he is a fab daddy and dotes on Blake. After much persuasion, he has agreed to one more child-he feels that financially we couldn't afford anymore and I do agree as I love being a SAHM. He's wanted a little girl since we fell pregnant before as no one else in our generation in either of our families has had a girl yet! He's agreed to trying to sway although I don't see him totally giving up red meat-especially if we are still trying by bbq season ;)
Having read the diets I cna totally see why we had a baby boy-took loads of prenatal vitamins, eat breakfast religiously, ate red meat lots and quite high nutrient foods. We didn't use timing to get pregnant before as hubby was working away mon-fri at the time as it would have driven me insane to chart at the time. Always ate wholegrain bread and loads of eggs, no diet drinks and avocados.
I tend towards the slightly obsessive side of things so in order to keep my testosterone down,I'm doing quite a mellow yellow sway and trying to keep the passion and fun side of making babies alive.
I'll post my sway up for review in the other section soon but generally I'm only taking folic acid, drinking more diet drinks and aspartame, skipping breakfast, eating much less meat and mostly chicken or shrimp if I'm having a cheat. Hubby is happier with frequent release but says he's willing to try abstinance to see if he can if it'll help. I drink peppermint tea once every other day normally. One try at bd at first. I'm concentrating on low protein, low calories and low fat predominantly and trying to ignore timing. My cycle is a bit all over the place since coming off bcp 2 months ago so don't really want to do anything that I can only do for part of my cycle as don't want to get it wrong.
We've just moved to a new area with hubby's work so don't know anyone. He works nights so I spend most mornings with just Blake playing so also looking for some supportive friends. Also interested in chatting to anyone form the UK who knows some good alternatives to the meals suggested with USA only ingredients.
As this is my last try for having a girl, am willing to add more to my sway but don't want to up my testosterone so anything that I can do without increasing the stress would be great.
Thanks to everyone who has made this site so great and especially Atomic for doing all that research!
