The Unintentional Swayers Pop Quiz:

[meeks32]

Are you like me? Do you quiz your friends (both knowingly and unknowingly) when they get pregnant to guess what they are having, now you know about swaying?

I've written up the questions I ask, feel free to steal and use or post here to add new ones.

So far I've predicted 3/3 right for my friends, one more I am waiting to find out!



The Unintentional Swayers Pop Quiz:

Did you eat breakfast?

Did you snack through the day or eat 2-3 meals and not much between?

Did you eat meat?

Was your diet high in salt, fat and protein?

Did you eat lots of high nutrient foods like dark leafy vegetables, nuts, meat, dairy? Or high carb, simple/plain foods?

Sweet tooth or savoury for cheats?

Were you exercising? Weight training muscle building type or fat burning cardio type? How often?

Were you taking multivitamins? What and how often?

Were you taking medications? What and how often?

How often did you and your partner/husband 'do it'? Every day? Once a week? Every few days?

Were you gaining weight, loosing it, or staying the same?

Were you on any special diet or exercise program?

If you know around when you conceived, were you drinking alcohol at the time?

Do you or your partner smoke?

Did you have any fertility treatments? IVF? Clomid? Naturopathic treatment?

Do you have PCOS?

[meeks32]

Bump

[harleyquinn]

Mine is a little tongue in cheek so don't take it too serious but I am 5 for 5 now on FB friends
Is she always ball busting her DH directly or with passive aggressive comments? (I have a personal theory about your relationship with DH plays into swaying)

Is she married at all?

Do frequent statuses reflect the astonishing amount of work she has accomplished that day? Including work outs, organizing, getting miraculous stains out of the laundry

Is she always dieting

Does she always try to analyze the meaning of life (where am I going in life? type musings)

Does she have another child very close in age to the one she is pg with?

Keep in mind I know them beyond the basic FB profile but I really have been quite accurate so far

[Adia]

Mine is a little tongue in cheek so don't take it too serious but I am 5 for 5 now on FB friends
Is she always ball busting her DH directly or with passive aggressive comments? (I have a personal theory about your relationship with DH plays into swaying)

Is she married at all?

Do frequent statuses reflect the astonishing amount of work she has accomplished that day? Including work outs, organizing, getting miraculous stains out of the laundry

Is she always dieting

Does she always try to analyze the meaning of life (where am I going in life? type musings)

Does she have another child very close in age to the one she is pg with?

Keep in mind I know them beyond the basic FB profile but I really have been quite accurate so far

Now I'm curious...what is your theory on your relationship with DH in relation to swaying???

I will do the POP quiz tomorrow with more time, but I am a natural girl swayer so I fit the description very well!!

[harleyquinn]

Well I certainly don't want to insult anyone so feel free to correct me, throw used opk's at me or whatever! Its *just* a theory from what I have observed from an extremely small sample

The ladies who seem more at peace with the husband..meaning...getting emotional support from him consistently and affection, lots of lovey dovey type feelings maybe?? or just a sense of peace and security in the relationship, perhaps an even keeled personality of the man that doesn't cause much friction...everyone is able to think, feel, do as they wish and there is little conflict about each others actions and beliefs---and thats just a nutshell--of this type of relationship(its a very nice relationship) ~maybe girl~

Compared to husbands who are not that always that emotionally in tune, strong opinions, beat to their own drum and meanwhile wife has her own drum and they are not always in tune LOL, I think you get two of these types together (DW and DH) and ~maybe boy~

[harleyquinn]

Because husbands with all their wonderful and maddening ways DO affect how we feel on a daily basis and I don't know about anyone else, but my marriage definitely goes through an ebb and flow cycle. In some way, this may affect our hormones, I know I definitely feel different in the waxing and waning phases of our ever-constant pull and tug with this gravity we have towards each other!!! I wouldn't change it but it does make me think Maybe other women go through different phases (we are connected to the moon after all LOL) in their marriage and have boys or girls depending on what kind of phase their marriage is currently going through. Just a hair-brained theory

[Dreamofpink]

It's an interesting theory Harley! Thing is when it comes to everything but the subject of having more kids we have what you described as a 'girl' relationship. We don't see eye to eye over how many kids and ttc so you never know!!

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[Cinss]

Interesting theory hq. I guess in my situation we had our girl first relatively quickly into our relationship when we were all lovey dovey towards each other, and our son 3 years on and the stress of ttc and swaying did drive a bit of a wedge between us, all good though but i can see what you mean.

[Goodus]

You might be on to something there Harley. Dh and I are always arguing. Not like in a mean sort of way although it annoys me no end but he has to argue on every subject! And of course I have to argue back ! And these are silly subjects like we were arguing earlier on about whether the moon affects us, or even our religious beliefs. And the way he argues is in a very argumentative way iykwim. Loud and like going to have a fight. So u think the act of arguing raises testosterone? I will have to tell him that

[meeks32]

I don't know, my husband and I don't fight hardly ever and in terms of arguing causing testosterone I can't see that for me.

Stress however, in general, is probably an indicator. But it's also subjective and less tangible to measure, and less easy to 'control' or 'wield' for swaying purposes.

Eg when I conceived ds1 I was stressed at work, although, I believe the moment I conceived was on our honeymoon so I was actually very relaxed. With ds2, ds1 was stressing me out majorly, that time I do think my t levels would have been off the chart.