Let's talk about blue sways.
UPDATED 12-23-17
Our blue sways are getting much better results for 2017, back up to the range of 2011-2014 . We dropped EPO, wheatgrass supplements, and milk replacers from our sways but since we used all those things 2011-2014 and got good results then, I really truly honestly believe the sole difference is that we had a larger sample size this year. So the people who had complicating factors in their sways THAT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH SWAYING such as health or fertility issues, medication, etc were mitigated by the people who did not.
The last 2 years (2015-2016) our blue sway results were worse than the previous years despite the fact that we changed nothing. (Please note, we had better than 50-50 success rates every year) I'm opening the floor to talk about why that is and I'm going to move some posts that were unfortunately posted in a person's sway post before I realized where they were at. UPDATE our results for 2017 are back up and is at present (Dec. 23 of 2017) 70%.
From 2011-2014 we got great results for blue doing nothing any different than we are doing right now (between 65-80%). At the same time we had terrible results for pink, changed some stuff with pink and our success rates went up and up (and we are using that info for our blue swayers too). We had people getting boys after 4 and 5 girls, people getting boys after failed IG sways, and people getting 2 and 3 boys in a row. We have changed nothing for blue because we did not have to, our results were great for 3 years straight. I believe STRONGLY that we are completely on the right track and this is largely an unfortunate and temporary side effect from having so few blue swayers.
If we do have some people (as I do believe) who are more set for one or the other, it can really skew the stats even if they are swaying hugely...like I always say, if you guys go from 80% to 50 or 60% likely to have the same gender you've been having all along, that is still a huge sway but still means that our overall results may still be 50-50 range and that is OK. This may manifest itself with some of our blue swayers taking ages to get pregnant for no apparent reason, which seems to be associated with more girls conceived despite great blue sways.
I really, really, really hesitate to "go here" because I hate this line of thought but the truth is that at least SOME of our blue swayers (particularly in 2015) did not have that good of sways. Again, if we had more people this would get lost in the shuffle (as it has in 2017 where our results are back up where they were in 2011-2014) but with only a handful of people it can affect the outcomes. This does not mean you guys shouldn't sway (as an example, if your husband won't quit smoking, which is the main thing). You are still going to have way better chances than if you do nothing any different. I am going to keep researching and trying to figure out something to change but as it sits right now, I believe in what we're doing and I think it works even if people have gotten more opposites than I like to see the last few months.