Pink Sway Health

[LDJ]

I was just wondering about the health safety of the child while doing a Pink Sway. Lowering ph and cutting large numbers of nutrients and losing weight on weird diets, seems to cause disruptions in cycles and delays O. (It delayed our typical O by 10 days, and drew the first couple of cycles out to 6 weeks at a time, instead of a month.) Do we know how this affects the health of the egg and growing baby girl? How do these deficiencies and weight loss diets and abnormally raised acidity affect pregnancies and child health? Thanks

[SEYMOAE]

I just asked a similar question about egg quality when you run your body down...I want the best egg quality but also want a girl! I'm curious too.

[atomic sagebrush]

Well, I hope it goes without question that I am not in this to cause harm to anyone, particularly babies. If I thought even for one moment that any of this stuff could harm any mama or baby I would not be here doing this. As soon as I hear anything in the media that may indicate that something we are using could be potentially harmful I drop it (have already done so with egg whites and baby aspirin, among other things) We are now getting to the point at which many of our earliest babies are 4-6 years old, including my daughter. She's totally normal and in fact in better health than a couple of my sons who I conceived while taking prenatals and eating gobs of food (one has really bad allergies and another has a mild form of spina bifida)

I have my personal concerns about some things that are on other swaying sites and also about some things that people choose to do, at times over my strenuous objections. But I err on the side of caution on this site. The LE Diet is based on recommendations from the World Health Organization and reproductive endocrinologists about what is the lower level of safe and normal food intake pre-pregnancy. It is just the lower limit of normal, not sub-normal. And as for prenatals, studies have found pretty definitively that only folic acid/folate and possibly Vit. D (info is much sketchier) help when taken DURING pregnancy let alone before. Prenatal Multivitamins Don't Help Much, Study Says Starting prenatals at BFP is believed to be fine and safe and hundreds, if not thousands of women on this site have done exactly that, myself included.

"raised acidity" is actually biologic nonsense that has been completely debunked and cannot affect anyone's baby at all anyway http://genderdreaming.com/forum/gend...ph-pickle.html

I do try to keep an open mind about any potential sources of harm due to swaying and I have a full investigation of things that could possibly cause or contribute to miscarriage here in this thread. http://genderdreaming.com/forum/gend...scarriage.html

[MiaMelb]

The LE diet is all about being on the lower side of normal and safe recommendations. As a girl mum it was only once I found this site that I realised what an LE lifestyle I was leading. We conceived two healthy girls, each within 4 months of coming off bc (often without even tracking o) living the LE lifestyle. The goal of the LE diet is to still be fertile enough to conceive.

[atomic sagebrush]

exactly! Many of my blue swayers are eating below LE Diet limits and getting healthy babies doing that (but don't drop below LE Diet limits!!)

[LDJ]

Thank you for some reassurance.

Also, just wondering, is there a place where I could find statistics on MC here? I know this issue has been discussed at the different forums, and the results are getting better and better. And I know it is talked about in the personal sway threads. But, wondered if statistic lists were kept on things like this?

[atomic sagebrush]

I don't keep stats on miscarriages. I probably should have but it didn't occur to me at the start, and I also think it would be extremely misleading as the majority of our swayers are either over 35, PCOSers, or thyroid patients all of whom have much higher rates of miscarriage than the general population.

[LDJ]

Can I ask why the majority of gender swayers here would be PCOSers or thyroid patients? How do these medical conditions correlate with someone swaying for a blue boy or a pink girl? I don't see how it is more prevalent in a gender sway forum than just for the general population; both swayers and people who have never even heard of swaying. In fact, it would seem to me that some people with these fertility issues might not be quite as concerned with the swaying aspect at all, but more in overall fertility, which would bring the specific gender sway MC % artificially lower.

Also, is it really predominantly women over age 35 that are interested in swaying for gender? I guess it is. Why does over 35 mean that you desire a certain gender more than someone under 35? Is it mostly existing parents here that are trying to family balance at a later stage in life? Maybe my age and dream for a little girl is in the minority here.

[skillet04]

LDJ - if i may jump in here....i think that certain medical conditions may tip the scales towards one gender over another for certain individuals...for example my sister and i both have hypothyroid and i have pco tendencies where as she has it more "classic" type...yet she has conceived 3 girls and i have 2 boys .... and yes i think that if up until age 35 someone has only had one gender just living their lifestyle and birthing whatever they are blessed with, that that old biological clock ticks louder and they see the door closing on balancing out the genders in their family or at least having that opportunity to raise a child of the opposite gender to what they have always known. True for many with conditions that cause subfertility they only want a healthy baby no matter the gender so they probably do not even use this forum. Hope that helps....and yes if one is younger and trying to conceive their first child i can see that it really should not matter boy or girl because they have many years ahead of them to have more....although there was one gal i found who swayed pink for her first two and done because some illness that only affects males ran in her genetics so she wanted to have healthy girls. (Who will also carry this defect that affects males so they will want to sway girl, hope they warn the poor fellows who want a son to carry on their name )

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[honeybee]

Can I ask why the majority of gender swayers here would be PCOSers or thyroid patients? How do these medical conditions correlate with someone swaying for a blue boy or a pink girl? I don't see how it is more prevalent in a gender sway forum than just for the general population; both swayers and people who have never even heard of swaying. In fact, it would seem to me that people with these fertility issues would not be as concerned with swaying at all, but more in overall fertility, which would bring the specific gender sway MC artificially lower.

Also, is it really predominantly women over age 35 that are interested in swaying for gender? I guess it is. Why does over 35 mean that you desire a certain gender more than someone under 35? Is it mostly existing parents here that are trying to family balance at a later stage in life? Maybe my age and dream for a little girl is in the minority here.

As someone who has struggled with infertility and pcos (at the ripe age of 26), it doesn't mean I "just want a healthy baby no matter the gender." We too are allowed to hope for one gender over another aren't we? There's an implication in your post that we should "be happy with whatever we can get." And this isn't necessarily the case. An analogy would be a 40 year old woman should just marry the first guy who will marry her, and not have hopes and desires for the ideal partner she's looking for.