My Sway for a girl (Uk Mummy to 2 boys and have PCOS)
Hi everyone, very early days but a positive is a positive so will post what I did,using Zanacal's way of writing it up.
USERNAME: Chocolate
AGE: 27
DH'S AGE: 29
CHILDREN: 2 Boys, 3 and a half and 13 months
NO. MONTHS TTC: 1
DIET:
I basically ate white rice or pasta with a small amount of unsalted butter and parmasan cheese, lower salt bread with butter or a tiny bit of parmasan, muller light yoghurt, for the few weeks before O. BUT - I thought I ovulated on about cd19 ish and we went to Butlins then where I had already paid for buffet style food, so the day of arrival I had a chicken burger and chips (1 to 2 days before Ovulation) the next am I had a fry up brekkie (1day before ovulation) and then had something like chips and sausage for dinner - then I ovulated on the Sunday. So the days before ovulation I ate meat, chips and fatty food. Just hope the month before of starvation worked in my favour. I weighed the least I had weighed since my teens, I think I lost about 8 pounds over a couple of weeks and ended up weighing about 7st 12 around ovulation and my normal weight from a typical over indulgence diet was about 8 stone 6 pounds. We are normally heavy red meat eaters and have alot of take-aways and chips so this diet was a huge change. My OH basically cut out most meat and potatoes for the few weeks before but not alot else as his PH was 7.2
ps - I drank tons of diet coke but always have done
EXERCISE:
None
POTIONS & PILLS:
Saw Palmetto -the cycle of pregnancy from af to O
Low Dosage Aspirin – every day until after ovulation then realised it was best to do 2 to 3 times a week so am doing that now
Folic Acid – recommended daily allowance
Antihistimines – Zirtek before ovulation for about 5 days straight
I took some b6 and zinc but cant remember doses
POTIONS & PILLS FOR YOUR MAN:
Licorice root - 3 tablets a day from cd1 until ovulation confirmed so about cd23
Baby asprin the evening of attempt
TIMING:
Had planned for a 7 day abstinence and either cut off or 0+12 - ended up as a 5 day abstinence and dtd on the Thursday night and reckon I ovulated Sunday so 2 to 3 days before O. Also jumped and dumped, probably lead there for about 40 seconds and then got up and most of it was underwear so I actually wiped some back in lol as thought there couldnt be any in there as it was that shallow. I told OH to leave his deposit as close to the outside as possible. Missionary position and no O for me. For the boys I think I had a big O before or after dtd, and a few the month of trying, but this time I hadnt had one for weeks and weeks.
THINGS IN YOUR VG:
I used replens, thought Id used too much! I think I used a bit daily ish up to days leading up to O then practically a whole applicator about 3 hours before Ovulation
Did you track your pH, if so, what was it before the attempt(s):
Yes, ranged between 4's and 7's, mostly settling around 5.4 or high 4's but around ovulation this went up to about 6 and combined with OH it was about 7 ish even after replens it was high ish. But with the boys I used pre-seed and did the deed with lots of ewcm so hope that was the key to having boys. OH's PH was 7.2 ish. Hardly had any ewcm compared to normal
Anything else?
OH wore tight boxers, hot baths, is a smoker, has been working 15 hour days 3 days a week plus 2 normal length days so lack of sleep, over-worked has been doing this for 5 or 6 months.
I ovulated on a full moon! But did tons of negative ions just incase, bees wax candles, rock salt lamp on all the time, negative ion arm bracelet, lavender soap, rose quartz heart under pillow at night, windows open where poss. took lots of walks along the beach around O when on holiday and it was as windy as hell!
I have PCOS so hormones are out of whack, probably more testosterone than most. The s.palmetto reduced some stray chin hairs and I noticed this grew back quickly once stopping the s.palmetto .Stopped breastfeeding about 2 months before falling pregnant.
Im only about 11 days past ovulation and got a positive test at 9dpo. If all goes well Im not sure if we will find out the gender, will probably still think boy even if told girl or would worry about problems going wrong if I heard girl, bit of a worrier me!
Would I do anything different if swayed again?
Yes, I would ensure I had ovulated before eating boy foods! Would do a 7 day plus abstinence and maybe try for 0+12 for first try but dont think Id calculate this very well at all. Would do the diet for 6 weeks before Ovulation.
We thought I was pregnant this month of trying and decided to wait till March to try again to give better girl odds and get over the xmas food, but got a bfp
Pregnancy symptoms so far:
Thought I had to be pregnant when my chest veins went bright blue and stood out.
Slight sore throat
Aching breasts
Currently 11dpo so hoping they intensify and have had a hcg and progesterone blood test done as had 9 day lp's the last 2 cycles.
My guess for girl/boy: I really dont know, I thought girl with DS2 but was very wrong lol. I think I probably swayed girl a little bit more so the odds would be 60/40 girl/boy but think the PCOS strongly sways boy.
I will update with other things as I think of them
