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So many posts on this site seem to mention that having only 1 attempt is key when swaying pink. I'm just wondering why is this the case? What is the logic behind it? I just need to understand all of these tactics thoroughly before I start my sway!!
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We honestly have no idea why it works. I have my ideas about why it is, but the main thing is that our statistics SHOWED that it worked and once we started doing it, our results went up and stayed up.
When we first started off we thought that other things swayed and no one even guessed that number of attempts did anything. But only over time (and some really bad results to be honest!!) we suddenly realized that OMG, 70-75% of the people who did one attempt had girls, 60-65% of peopel who did 2 attempts had girls, and 40-45% of the people who had 3 attempts had girls. At the same time, many of our blue swayers who stuck to Shettles timing for boys (this is done with one attempt for boys) had terrible results.
The only conclusion we could draw was that somehow, some way, number of BD sways. So we do that. :)
Fair enough...I'll take those stats!
Reminding myself that the BD strategies for a boy sway are different from what happened with both my DDs gives me hope. Thanks for the stats too, it's nice to see percentages that might help me overcome the fact that having a third girl is more likely than having a boy after two girls. Don't think I ever read anywhere an explanation for that fact.Quote:
Originally Posted by atomic sagebrush
Actually blue swayers - your chances of success DO go up over time. Studies have found that your odds of a boy after 2 girls is higher than ours to have a girl after two boys. :)
That's interesting Atomic. Do you have a reference for this? I'd be keen to read it. There is a page over on IG that shows the increasing likelihood of your next baby a being a boy after each additional boy born, however, it seems to suggest that the only time a girl is more likely is after you've had two girls. Thoughts?Quote:
Originally Posted by atomic sagebrush
Yes, somewhere haha - I'll take a look
For 2-Children Families
All Boys - the real number was 25.8% (25.0% Predicted)
Mixed genders - 52.2% Actual (50.0% Predicted)
All Girls 22.0% Actual (25.0% Predicted)
So right away, you can see that it's more common to have two boys than it is 2 girls, by more than 3%!!!
3-Children Families
All Boys 14.9% Actual (12.5% Predicted)
Mixed 73.0% A (75.0% P)
All Girls 12.1% Actual (12.5% Predicted)
4-Children Families
All Boys 9.1% Actual (6.3% Predicted)
Mixed 85.4% A (87.4% P)
All Girls 5.5% Actual (6.3% Predicted)
Four boys are more common than four girls by a whopping 4%!!
And in every category, mixed gender families were less common than they technically "should" be.
^^the above info was from a study but I don't ahve a link to that.
Thank you Atomic, these stats are very interesting. In my mind there seems to be come correlation between the TW theory you've discussed previously and the increased likelihood of conceiving and having a boy.Quote:
Originally Posted by atomic sagebrush
Where I find these stats a little disheartening is that they do not seem to consider birth order. If I had no children, but intended to have 3, the chances of having 3 girls is quite remote (12.1% actual). However, the fact that I do already have two girls means that I'm now at a different point. The IG stats seem to suggest that from this point I am more likely to have a girl for my 3rd than a boy (only 46% chance of a boy). Sadly for me this is the lowest chance of having a boy in any circumstance (based on any number of previous children and their genders). For some reason there seems to be a lower chance of having a boy as the third child and particularly if the first two are girls. Have you seen these stats? Do you have any thoughts about why this may be with the third child? I will say I'm not sure where IG got these stats and as you've mentioned in places some of the info on IG may well be outdated or inaccurate.
Having said all that, that's why your original BD stats and this site in general provides me with an opportunity to reflect and some hope. Reading what you've said about diet, exercise etc I can see that I had a very girl friendly lifestyle and what strategies I may be able to use in my eventual sway.
Unlike a lot of stats on IG, I actually read this article and that is what the findings were. I remembered this morning it was in a statistics magazine online that does not seem to be online any more. I think it was "Chance Magazine" or something like that and it was a writeup of a study.
The way you're thinking of it is not how the statistics work. These are numbers across a POPULATION and not YOUR PERSONAL odds. Do you see the difference there? Some of those people had GBG, some had GGB, some had BGG, or whatever, but the fact is that 12.5% of the population ~should~ have 3 girls and only 12.1% did. In the meantime, the odds of 3 boys were MUCH higher at almost 15% vs. 12. That is all good news for you. It doesn't say anything about your personal odds of getting a baby girl the next time, it just means that of all the people in the whole wide world with three kids, more of them have some combo of boys and girls than end up with 3 girls.
Stats are funny things. If gender is NOT a coin flip (and of course we believe that it is not) then it doesn't MATTER what the numbers across the population are. You can change your own odds by swaying. So even if you do, as we sit here in this moment, have only a 46% chance of a boy, you can change that with swaying. We have consistently gotten better than 50% and most years we got more in the 70% range. If your husband doesn't smoke that's even better chances.
Your body doesn't "know" what the stats are. Your body only knows the cues it gets from the environment. And that you have control over! not 100% of course but definitely better than without swaying. :)