Atomic could you please sticky this one :)
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Atomic could you please sticky this one :)
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Interested in swaying again for baby girl! Not sure when though as lil one is only 4 months 😍
ive done 3 girl sways so far, currently pregnant with sway baby #3 but will most likely sway again at the end of the year :)
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Originally Posted by 4blue2pink
Did u get your desired gender each time? Did u do the same changes each time or differ in anyway?
Think im more nervous this time than the first time...
my 1st sway worked, my 2nd sway didnt and they were virtually identical, this time i switched to the PCOS diet due to having an opposite on the standard LE and i'll know if it worked when baby arrives :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Parying4agirl
Aww
Good luck this time round. When are you due? Do you have any gut feelings this time round?
PS love the fact you have a big fam ( im sure ive said it before) wish my hubby would agree but he says only one more ��
done! LMK if you guys need anything, it's hard for me to keep up with support threads, if you ask your questions in the forums in a new thread I'll be sure to see them!
Oh that’s interesting!Quote:
Originally Posted by 4blue2pink
Have you found it hard getting back into the diet etc each time? Or not so much?
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Day 15 and OPK is significantly darker. Wonder if I’ll get a positive shortly
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not really, i always feel better doing intermittent fasting style eating, the big gaps between meals and no snacks leave me with more energy and feeling good so it makes me want to do it :) the PCOS diet this time really agree'd with me (sugar gives me a bad stomach but i stupidly ate it anyway!!) cutting sugar out alone left me feeling so much better!! so im happy to stick to an eating plan that i feel good on, i will look to vary my meals a bit more next time though, by the end i was getting bored of the same few choices!!Quote:
Originally Posted by laurelw
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...6624ca80b3.jpgs This isn’t my attempt month.. working out what’s my normal though. Is this almost a positive OPK?
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Pregnant with girl sway number two :)
I’m a bit worried this time as I wasn’t super strict with diet like last time, only drank alcohol for about a month beforehand, but still stayed way more more girl friendly than I was with the boys, and remained a coffee drinker. We ended up having an accidental 4 day cut off, confirmed with opk and temp. Fingers crossed I get lucky again!!
Good luck! Can’t wait to hear the result! I’m feeling the same this time, I’m not as strict and hopefully that doesn’t influence!Quote:
Originally Posted by Mummyof4boys
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Fingers crossed for both of us :D mum wants to pay for the NIPT..$425 yikes!! So at least I won’t have to wait as long this time lol
Good luck Mummyof4boys
I hope to sway towardd the end of the year
That’s very kind of her! We paid for that one last time but won’t this time.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mummyof4boys
Not too long to wait then!
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She wants me to have the test because she’s way more impatient than I am LOL. About 5 weeks to wait...eek!
oh sorry I don't always check the support threads - yes!Quote:
Originally Posted by laurelw
How accurate is NIPT ? A “friend” said she knows three people who were given the wrong gender and were given a refund...not sure if she’s full of crap LOL.
I think it’s pretty rare to get it wrong. It’s actually looking at your blood and searches for the boy gene or whatever, if it is missing, it’s a girl, if it’s present, it’s a boy. Pretty hard to get wrong. If taken too early it can not have enough to show a result though apparentlyQuote:
Originally Posted by Mummyof4boys
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When does everyone usually start OPK testing?
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I start around CD 10-11 here. I usually O around CD 14-15. I think it's recommended to 4-5 days after AF ends.Quote:
Originally Posted by laurelw
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So tonight is the night we make our attempt for our baby girl! Please send me sticky pink baby dust! [emoji1696]
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Good luck Sam
Attempt didn’t happen. Our youngest started vomiting and we were up all night with him. [emoji1785]
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Oh no so sorry - FX for next month and hoping little one feels better soon.
4blue2pink-- can you give a rundown of your sway this time (PCOS LE diet)? What types of food did you eat? What were the most drastic changes/differences for you from the normal LE diet vs the pcos LE diet?
Fingers crossed for you!
hi foursquare,Quote:
Originally Posted by foursquare
my sway this time was LE PCOS diet, coffee, walking 60mins 5-7days a week and 1 attempt. I was on pcos diet due to having an opposite on standard LE, as far as im aware i dont have pcos.
the biggest changes for me from LE to PCOS LE was cutting out sugar, and switching bread and pasta over to wholegrain/wholewheat. weight comes off much faster with this diet so overall i felt i ate more at each meal just to get enough cals etc and the cost.. pcos diet is more expensive.
foods wise for dinner id have a veg or lentil soup with wholewheat pitta and hummus or egg whites or some avocado if i needed the fat and a cup of almond milk.
for tea id have a jacket potato with lots of salad and some cheese and salad cream or whole wheat pasta with broccoli/veg and pesto or some other sauce.
i didnt have a huge variety in my meals, i had a small amount of chicken once a week when i'd cook a roast and have it with the roast veg and gravy.
sweet food wise i had fruit, it was funny after giving up sugar i found i started craving fruit for something sweet and wasnt bothered by sugary stuff any more.
Just updating this thread with my results. We found out last week our second girl sway has worked! Baby girl #2 on the way. Yay!!
That’s amazing! Yay!Quote:
Originally Posted by Mummyof4boys
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Congrats! Have you posted your sway? What was your diet? Or what do you think it was that worked for you?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mummyof4boys
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No, I haven’t posted my second sway yet.Quote:
Originally Posted by Thirdtimelucky01
My diet stayed much the same as my first sway in 2016. I never went back to my old eating habits when I conceived my boys. I skipped breakfast, rarely snacked, and avoided cereal and fortified juices, stayed a daily coffee drinker and alcohol occasionally. I was much more relaxed with diet this time because we were planning on TTC 9-12 months down the track, so I was planning on being more strict like the last sway for the 3 months before our attempt, but ended up deciding it was better to get pregnant sooner rather than later due to our ages (me 38, hubby 49). We had one attempt with a 4 day cut off as I ovulated later than expected. I made hubby release on his own several times in the lead up to our one attempt as I wanted fresh, healthy sperm considering his age.
I think the big change in eating habits and having only one attempt was the main factor in getting girls. 3/4 of my boys were from multiple attempts. My first boy I can’t remember if it was more than one attempt, but it was on ovulation day with a lot of EWCM.
That’s great! What do you mean by 4 day cutoff? Is it first day of positive OPK? Which ovulation test did you use? Both my boys were conceived on one attempt at a positive solid smiley (ovulation sticks that show 2 more fertile days) but I never did the diet with them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mummyof4boys
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Please do not aim at a 4 day cutoff. While occasionally people do manage to conceive with that timing, it's very difficult and many people have gone years not getting pregnant trying 4+ day cutoffs.Quote:
Originally Posted by Thirdtimelucky01
Ok sure, what should I aim at then? First smiley face (ovulation kit that shows 4 fertile days)? Or first smiley face on the kit that shows 2 fertile days? I’m a bit confused.Quote:
Originally Posted by atomic sagebrush
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It's up to you - do you want timing or not?
I conceived both my boys with one attempt at positive OPK, one on high fertility day (OPK that shows 4 days) and one on peak fertility day (OPK that shows 2 best days to conceive) with no diet though. So I’d prefer to try and incorporate timing this time around as well as diet and exercise. If I use OPK that shows two most fertile days and I have a smiley face, would that be O-1 or O-2?Quote:
Originally Posted by atomic sagebrush
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Well, BD on high fertility day IS a cutoff. That is a Shettles cutoff. So you did already get a boy with timing. It is fine for you to try timing again, but I just wand you to understand that having an attempt on any high fertility day is NOT one attempt at positive OPK and in fact is a Shettles cutoff.
Your first positive OPK (that is with a SOLID smiley, not flashy) is either 1-2 days before O. There's a range and I cannot pin it down for you any more than that. You will ovulate somewhere between 8-72 hours after that first solid smiley and the average is 24-36 hours, but 36-48 is quite common too.
So to go back to your question, my recommendation to those who want timing is to get the OPK with 4 fertile days, and BD the day of the SECOND flashy smiley. This will be a 2-3 day cutoff for most people. But, this is the timing you got your other boy with!! If you absolutely must, you can try at the first flashy smiley, but your odds of conception will be somewhere around 1 in 1000 chance of conception and if you do conceive from it, the chances are you actually ovulated sooner and didn't have that timing anyway! The OPK are quite misleading so you can't always depend on them telling you when you really ovulated.
Thank you Atomic, just one more question about your first paragraph- if Having an attempt on any high fertility day is NOT one attempt at positive OPK then what do you mean by “having one attempt at positive OPK” when you say it’s one of the things that work for pink swayers (in addition to diet, exercise, fiber, alcohol and coffee)? Do you actually mean a first day you get a smiley in the OPK that only shows 2 fertile days, is that right? Sorry I’m a bit confused.Quote:
Originally Posted by atomic sagebrush
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One attempt at positive OPK is on the peak fertility reading - the first SOLID smiley. Only that day.
If the OPK is flashy, it's not positive yet. Only solid reading is positive. And with digi OPK, the first solid smiley is the first positive OPK.
most people get 2 days of flashy (not positive yet!) and then 2 days of solid (positive/peak fertility) on digi tests. Only the first solid is what equates to the first positive of a standard OPK test.