October chat thread for pink swayers

Good luck to everybody ttc in October! Chat away ...

are you putting the members stats up again?
if so can you please change mine to surprise BFP, September 26th, 12 DPO
Due date June 6th....:)

I'm just catching up on the chatting after my weekend away. I think it's really cool that you and your sister are due around the same time, Z. I know it would be really tough if she gets a girl and you don't, but I'm sure you'll both have girls and they'll grow up as best friends!

Hello :)

Zanacal ~ so cool about your sister! :) My twin sister is 9 weeks pregnant right now. I am hoping to be pregnant with her soon! :)

Have a great rest of your day everyone! :)

zana - how exciting to read about your sister - what a lovely experience to share together!

Hi ladies...hope everyone is well. Mocha- good to see you're still going to be chatting with us on this thread! Zan- congrats to you and your sister! I'm ovulating this friday so hopfully this will be my month. This will be my fourth attempt and I am starting to get a little worried/discouraged :( I've stopped the asprin, and sylk. Just gonna use canola oil and DTD everyday till friday. I have a feeling that my sway was way too hard core! In the past I got pregnant so easily so i am assuming it must be all the things I am doing to reduce the amount of sperm. Hubby is still gonna take licorice root and if it doesn't happen for me this month we're gonna get rid of that for our next attempt. So many of my girlfriends are pregnant and I'm starting to get a little envious. good luck to everyone!

Sounds like a good plan, Mandicane. I dropped Sylk and Rephresh this attempt, and I think that's what made the difference for me.

Thanks everyone - it will be so cool for my sister and I to have our due dates so close. Our second children are only 3 months apart so we've been pregnant together before but not as close as we are this time!

FX for this month mandicane and happyheart x

Mocha- do you think the rephresh stopped you getting pg? I was about to order some for my attempt in a couple of weeks...now not so sure. I have acijel which I will use for the run up but don't want to stop my chances of getting pg too much....
It is all consuming this ttc business, I was dreaming all about it last night!
Zanacal- lovely news about your sis, will be a lovely experience to share again.

Indigo - there's no way to know for sure, of course, but the lack of Rephresh was the one significant difference in my sway this month.

Thanks Zan..hoping this month will be my month. Indigo- I have an unopened box of rephresh that i'm not gonna use. i can send it to you free of charge if you like.

I definitely think that the sylk and/or antihistamines are effecting my ability to get pregnant. Gonna do what you did with the asprin mocha and take it every other day. I haven't been doing frequent release (it was to exhausting and hubby couldn't keep up as he is also taking licorice root) but we started last night and will BD until O. I spoke with a girlfriend of mine who has two girls and she said for both attemps she and her hubby did it everyday 5 days leading up to O. I'm gonna try this as it will also be the opposite of what we did to have our ds.

That's pretty close to what I did, mandicane. We did every day for 6 days leading up to O. Let's hope that works for both of us and we get our girls!

Fx to all of us! Can't remember if you posted this elsewhere Mocha ( i guess i could go look at your sway!) but did you take antihistamines? If so how often? Still debating whether or not to include this for this months tiny sway? For some reason I keep thinking this is the cause of me not getting pregnant. My hubby insists its the licorice root but i don't yet want to give this up. What do you gals think?

Yes, I did take antihistamines. I took two Zyrtec once a day, usually after supper. I tried to take Benedryl too one day, but it made me pass out before dh and I had the chance to dtd, so I figured I should drop it.

thanks Mocha!

Mocha - how much RepHresh were you using before?

anyone heard from Swish lately? is she OK?

No, I was wondering about swish too, I think she hasn´t been on since her bfn. Hope she´s fine.
I also need a break sometimes especially when I get a bfn and see other people get pregnant, although I´m totally happy for all the pregnant girls!
And then as O comes more near, I hang around a lot more here, I enjoy the company of all you pink swayers:)

swish is taking a break to think through how much swaying she still wants to do. I'm hoping she'll join us again closer to O or maybe when she gets her BFP (which is hopefully this month).

rainbow - the first couple of months I was using about half an applicator of rephresh every 3 days and I tried to time it so my last application was 3 days before O. The third month I only used a fingerful a few days before O. This last attempt I did use it once - a fingerful 6 days before O to counteract the fact we'd messed up frequent BD, but I think it was far enough away from my attempt that it didn't have an impact.

Hi ladies,,im also swaying pink this month starting the 8th and im getting kinda nervous excited more so just to get this over with so i can eat again,i feel so secretive about the ig diet if anyone knew they would think ive lost it,so its getting difficult..im counting the days!

Good luck to you too sweetsister!

I used Rephresh too - a whole applicator around 48 hours before our attempt.

thank you, I was wondering how much rephresh to use. I've only tried it twice so far but found it very hard to only get some out - it's much easier to do the full dose

aww I hope Swish feels stronger soon and that its her turn soon

I'm also swaying at the moment although I think I went overboard with my 0+12 attempt. I took benedryl zyrtec aspirin rephresh in the morning, acijel on Dh for lube while dtd. Dh takes LR zyrtec benedryl aspirin. I'll have to change something next month if it's a negative. What do u girls think?

Swish thinking of you and best of luck

OK, I have a plan!

with such little weight to lose I've always known (well, since my first week of the diet) that I can't keep it up that long. So we've got a plan:
TTC this cycle and keep up the diet
TTC next cycle, but as soon as OV is over I will go back to eating more normal although still try and keep blood glucose low, and then that should take us to mid-November.
From when AF arrives then if we're still not pregnant I'll go back to my old eating ways, bring back breakfast, and just enjoy Christmas with my DH and my DS, re-gaining weight if I have to and re-stocking my nutrients in my body.
Once Christmas is out of the way I'll start the diet again, ready to TTC in Feb and March, etc.

So it means only 2 shots at getting pregnant at a time, but TBH I feel less in a rush now than I did and know that it will be worth waiting for and I can't become "Swayorexic" in the process because that won't help anyone.

rainbow - that sounds like a great plan. I had decided that if I didn't get my BFP this past month I was going to start eating more normally in the 2WW, though still making sure to keep blood glucose low.

thanks :) sort of looking forwards to eating "real" food one way or another in 6-8 weeks now. Praying my LP is long enough to get pregnant this cycle... I think it'll be hit or miss :(

I'll send lots of baby dust your way, rainbow! :HH:

Well, I got a + OPK yesterday afternoon, cervix was SHOW, we had an attempt, but DH wasn´t able to deliver...I can´t describe how angry, disappointed and sad I am...I really felt every thing was perfect, had managed to have a 7 day abstain (happened to be sick and vomited in the morning), I had been good on the diet this last month thinking I would start eating normal again after this change just giving up on swaying. Now I didn´t even get a change to get pregnant with all my last efforts :mad::sad::SS:
We´ll try tonight but it will probably be too late, no more ecwm and cervix is lower and firmer and more closed. I tried and managed to stay positive last cycle when we missed our fertile window, but now, I feel like giving up and just have a boy, I can´t do this anymore. But I feel so sad too thinking of getting pregnant on my normal diet, that way I have no change of a daughter :(Sorry for moaning.

Rainbow your plan sounds good. Hope you won´t need it and you fall pregnant soon.

Oh Indira, I'm so sorry. Maybe tonight will work out - I always have less EWCM when I actually ovulate than I do leading up to it. {hugs}

thanks zani

Aww indira I hope he feels better later on, less ewcm might sway better for you...

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I´m more optimistic now :) my opk is still + (that doesn´t mean anything I know, but it makes me feel better), I have a tiny bit of clear, little stretchable cm. My cervix still feels firmer, lower and more closed than yesterday, I think I just need to stop checking it and chill...
Really hope things will work out tonight!

Indira - I'm sending you lots of baby dust for tonight. I think you still have a good chance!

Good luck Indira!

Good luck Indira, I am still waiting for my :happy: but it should really come either tomorrow or Saturday. I was up half the night with DS2 who has tonsillitis and is very sick when he has it so totally drained today. Have a bit of a sore throat myself so hoping I get that :happy: soon!!

Rainbow- that's almost exactly what I was thinking of doing. I don't have a lot of weight to loose and my Dh is already getting worried about how thin I am looking. I'm glad that someone else is thinking the same, I will copy your plan!

Zanacal- thanks for the info on rePHresh, I have just ordered mine and was needing to know how to use it. Did you use acijel as well? I have acijel and was thinking of using both, aj every second day and then the repH a few hours before bd, do you think that would work ok? TIA

Madicane- is your attempt tomorrow? GOOD LUCK!!!

I did use both Indigo. I used Represh every 3 days starting soon after my period (I only managed to use it twice in that cycle as I ovulated early) and I used a finger tip of Aci-jel every 2 or 3 days earlier in my cycle too (on different days to the Rephresh). Rephresh is designed to be used every 3 days to balance pH so I would use it earlier in your cycle (so your body is used to it by the time you O and doesn't try and gush out a load of EWCM to get rid of this foreign substance!) but I wouldn't use it too close to your attempt if you're going to use a whole applicator full. Personally I'd want to be at least 24 hours away with the Rephresh. I used around 1/4 applicator of Aci-jel the night before our attempt (which was early in the morning) - so around 7 hours beforehand. Again, the only reason I used Aci-jel earlier in my cycle was to make sure my body was used to it.

Hi everyone :)

I was doing really well the past two weeks since my last attempt. But now I am super confused and hoping to get a positive OPK soon!! The CBEM said that I peaked a couple of days ago, but I never got a positive OPK or a temp spike. The ovacue gave me tomorrow as an ovulation date.. but it did the same thing for a couple days ago... very confusing!! I have zero CM due to the clomid drying me up so bad.

Gosh.. I am so hoping to get a positive opk soon and I am starting be concerned that I won't this cycle. :(

I hope you all are doing well and good luck!!!