Tweedledeedum's Girl Sway - UPDATE - It's a GIRL!
USERNAME: tweedledeedum
AGE: 31
DH'S AGE: 31
CHILDREN: 2 boys
NO. MONTHS TTC: 3
DIET:
I started with the IG diet for about 2 months then converted to a version of the LE diet. No red meat, chicken maybe once a month, low cal everything, no salt, tons of diet pepsi. I had no breakfast and sometimes skipped supper. I did have tea occasionally, no coffee. Switched from 2 % to skim milk. This is completely different from my high calorie, eat whatever I like, red meat heavy, typical boy mom diet.
I lost 20 pounds, the lowest I've been since before I had kids. BMI is now about 20.
DH - no diet but he did have less red meat as I cooked it much less. He is a big diet pop drinker too.
EXERCISE:
none.
POTIONS & PILLS:
I took Calcium for the 2 previous cycles but didn't on this last one.
Vitex – AF-O for 2 cycles.
Cranberry - AF to O
Antihistimines – used in previous months but not this month as I had no CM.
POTIONS & PILLS FOR YOUR MAN:
He took the occassional cranberry and calcium but not regularly.
TIMING:
We tried cut offs the prior two months with no luck. This month we ended up DTD twice close to O, on the morning and evening of day 12.
On day 12 my OPK was almost positive so I thought I wouldn't O for another day or so and I have never Oed earlier than day 13.
But my temp was up on day 13, so i think I Oed on day 12 this month.
THINGS IN YOUR VG:
I used Replens after AF finished on about day 9. I had no or very little Cm around O (which is partly why I didn't realize I was Oing).
Did you track your pH, if so, what was it before the attempt(s):
My Ph was between 4.0 and 4.5 before the attempt. I never checked DHs ph but the combined ph was something around 6-6.5. (I didn't check right after our successful attempt but this was the case in previous attempts)
OTHER:
I had a couple girl outfits under the bed, if that counts!
I was just recovered my fertility from breastfeeding when I got pregnant. In prior months I had problems with a short LP and spotting which I contribute to heavy breastfeeding combined with a bad low cal diet/losing weight. I think starting the vitex and eliminating night feedings allowed me to get pregnant this month.
UPDATE: IT'S A GIRL! (according to my 20 wk scan). I have had a horrible pregnancy and am still having sickness at over 20 weeks. It has been much harder than either of my boys, when I had no sickness whatsoever and felt great. We are just thrilled to have gotten a baby girl and while I have always been somewhat of a swaying skeptic, all of the swaying was so so worth it!
Edited to add that I found out during my pregnancy that I have low iron stores. I attribute this to swaying as I have never had iron issues in my previous pregnancies.
Edited again to add that in November of 2015 I gave birth to baby girl number 2. I followed the same sway plan, however a little less strictly. Thrilled to now have 2 boys and 2 girls! Thank you gender dreaming!
