First Time Girl Swayer! Girl Sway Help requested. Really hoping for a girl for 2nd & final baby.
Hi!
I've read LOTS of your posts and threads on this website and it's been SO helpful! I really appreciate all your through posts.
I have a 3 year old son and would love a little girl for our 2nd and final baby. I'm 35 yr (DOB Nov 28) so I'll be 36 when I have the baby and DH just turned 37.
I've been tracking my cycles for 9 months now and they are a bit irregular. Most of the time I OV CD 13 but sometimes CD15 and the last 2 months TTC I ended up OV CD 17 :( and I was stuck on the cut off day so we weren't even in the window for the 2 tries. I've thrown the cut off days out the window.
Here's what I've been doing:
LE diet since Feb 24 so 8 weeks now
I eat about 1,400-1,600 sometimes i eat 1,300 and sometimes i'm at 1,900 or even 2,000 but that's like a holiday or major cheat day usually i'm around 1,500/1,600. if i have a drink than it's more like 1,700 to 1,800
i try and keep fat 30-60 g but i am usually around 50 but sometimes up to 60 and sometimes over the 60 and low protein. i've pretty much become a vegetarian sometimes i'll eat one of my toddlers chicken nuggets but i've been skipping meat and seafood and have reduced amount of avocados & nuts i used to eat. just eat a little bit for some fat.
i walk 6 (sometimes 7) days with my toddler for about 1.5 hrs but it's about 60 min and then we at out playing and then i walk home for another 20-30 min so it's not straight 1.5 hrs. i was running but i hurt my knee a little and don't want to push it so i just try and walk really fast.
i've lost almost 6 lbs since starting the diet. i'm almost 5'2" and currently about 119 lbs. i was pretty fit before but i've thinned out.
i skip breakfast (always have) 2 large cups of coffee. eat lunch around noon, snack at 3pm, dinner at 5/5:30pm and usually that's it. been drinking a little either wine or liquor but it's hard to maintain the low calorie and have a drink. and i find if i have a drink pre dinner i will eat more so i try and save it for evening but again not drinking too much b/c of calorie counting.
i feel like i should cut out the 3pm snack but honestly i don't think i'll make it so is it terrible to have or should i really try and cut it and just make my lunch bigger?
for some background. i was pretty thin when i got pregnant with my son and didn't eat very much calories but it was calorie dense food (lots of avocado and eggs, lean deli meat, chicken breast, etc) i had also recently started weight lifting and was doing it 3-4x a week while also doing HIT workouts. i'm currently only doing the walking. sometimes ninetendo's switch fit game which does body weight exercising. i was also very relaxed. had just gotten back from a month long vacation in thailand with my husband and I was not working. i'm now a SAHM with a challenging toddler :). I would say I'm def a go getter, highly ambitious, competitive type person.
a few questions:
should i change anything? exercise? food?
when i track ovulation I get a really high LH reading and then the next 12 hr reading will be my peakshould i aim to have my 1 BD on peak day or ovulation day?
i.e. my cycle this past month (which was very late for me but the same as the other month I TTC so clearly even tho I tell myself I'm not stressing I am stressing) was CD 15 PM very high, CD 16 AM peak, CD 16 PM high so I assume I ovulate CD 17 AM assuming I'm ovulation 24 hours post peak SO when do I aim for my 1 BD? CD 15 PM when it's very high, CD 16 AM when I get my peak or CD 16 PM or CD 17 when I ovulate???
I can have sex either 2pm or in the evening. so if the best was do it it at ovulation would I aim for CD 16 PM or CD 17 PM since I can't have sex in the AM (toddler reasons).
for pink sway I thought it was best to have sex in the evening. not sure if that's true or not. I think I was very stressed trying to figure out the day I was supposed to have my 1 BD but now that I've given up the window cut off I already feel more relaxed since I know this next time (in about 3 weeks) I'll actually have a chance at BFP.
I was debating giving up calorie counting the week of my ovulation b/c it's a lot of work and i thought maybe it's stressing me out (i use my fitbit's food tracking app) but if i'm honest i prob won't eat as low as I have been b/c having to track your food intake really does make me eat less b/c i know i'll be over for the day.
I REALLY appreciate your help! Sorry for the long post!
I've told myself I will be really happy with a 2nd boy but I really want to give my best shot at a little girl and I think my heart will be settled knowing I gave it my all but I was meant to have 2 sweet boys. I had MAJOR GD when i found out my baby was a boy at the 20 week scan but I have come a long way since then and now know boys are really really fun and oh so sweet!