Pink swayers' December thread

[Out of the Blue]

Jen, I read your blog and balled like a baby! I am so sorry for your loss. MAJOR girly VIBES your way!

Thank you! Back at ya! and

[Out of the Blue]

Obviously, I believe swaying can help, but it just drives me crazy to think about how little we still really know why a certain sperm gets the egg, you know?

I know!!! Yesterday I had a horrifying thought. You know how keeping blood sugar sways girl? What if it's just the blood sugar at the time of conception? Like if you eat all the time but just happen to eat a light dinner and your BS is low, pop an egg in the a.m. before you get a chance to eat breakfast and voila...normally you would have gotten a boy but b/c your BS happened to be low at the time, you got a girl! I was kind of freaked out to eat dinner last night when I was thinking about this (but I ate!). I'm sure it cannot work this way but I'm always thinking of things like this b/c we just don't have the answers!

[Jamie86]

One of my students (I work in a career college as a librarian) and I were talking and she's on her 7th pregnancy. She had G G B G B G and this pregnacny is B. I asked her since she had so many kids if she did anything differently with them, eat different foods, worked out, etc etc, and she said to me that she's never changed her habits or her behaviors. Although I am assuming that there are different fathers at play for some of them, she swears up and down that nothing noticeable changed with her. She is on the heavy side as well.

She says she's going to try to have 3 more

Anyway, obviously this is not conclusive, because she may have been doing minorly different things and not have paid any mind, but her theory was that sex selection was very random and a "luck of the draw" kind of thing.

Obviously, I believe swaying can help, but it just drives me crazy to think about how little we still really know why a certain sperm gets the egg, you know?

Wow I would love to have that many kids but I'd want to be able to support them (financially and emotionally) comfortably and I'm just worried I couldn't. I have a friend that had 5 girls and then 2 boys the first two girls were from two different fathers and then the remaining 5 (3 girls 2 boys) were all from the same (a 3rd) father. I was her nanny and lived with her for a few years, she is very thin and eats very little and not nutritional things either. She would go a whole day with just eating some chocolate cake and drinking like 6 dr peppers. I really don't know what would have changed between the girls and the boys. My doula with my last pregnancy has 11 kids she had 4 girls then 2 boys then 4 more girls and then a boy. So thats 8 girls 3 boys. She is a very healthy eater and fairly average size. She never tried to sway in any way so I guess it really is just luck of the draw the majority of the time. Almost forget my mother in law also had 6 girls and then 1 boy at the end it's crazy how it all works out.

[Mochagirl]

Don't think the flavor would matter at all! I don't drink it but it is great for a girl sway!

I think atomic once said any flavour but the iced tea ones are good choices (maybe because they have caffeine?). My favourite is the raspberry ice!

[Mochagirl]

Jen, I think your sway sounds awesome! I really love this website and the freedom it gives about making the sway plan that works best for you. Because of the end of the day, each woman has to feel good about what she did to sway.

I agree completely! I was a longtime IG member before coming here, and swayed for ds3 while on that site. I found there there's a lot less flexibility about what makes a good sway. Basically, it's Tamara's way or the highway (not to criticize Tamara, who really is lovely and works very hard to help the women on that site). I'm just happier here were we're encouraged to find the best sway *for us*.

[Mochagirl]

I know!!! Yesterday I had a horrifying thought. You know how keeping blood sugar sways girl? What if it's just the blood sugar at the time of conception? Like if you eat all the time but just happen to eat a light dinner and your BS is low, pop an egg in the a.m. before you get a chance to eat breakfast and voila...normally you would have gotten a boy but b/c your BS happened to be low at the time, you got a girl! I was kind of freaked out to eat dinner last night when I was thinking about this (but I ate!). I'm sure it cannot work this way but I'm always thinking of things like this b/c we just don't have the answers!

Atomic addressed this specifically recently - someone was asking whether it would be better to BD in the morning when out blood sugar is lowest. She said it doesn't matter whether you've just eaten when you BD. I'll try to find the thread and post a link if I'm successful. So....don't worry - you had an awesome sway, Jen!

[Mochagirl]

Found it!

http://genderdreaming.com/forum/gend...-ttc-pink.html

Read through the thread for atomic's response.

[Out of the Blue]

Atomic addressed this specifically recently - someone was asking whether it would be better to BD in the morning when out blood sugar is lowest. She said it doesn't matter whether you've just eaten when you BD. I'll try to find the thread and post a link if I'm successful. So....don't worry - you had an awesome sway, Jen!

Thx!!! I always am over-thinking things, especially when it comes to swaying Phew! I just need to relax now, lol.

[KraizyDaizy]

How long can you get +OPKs? I am still getting them as of my last around 1:30 today. See pic. Does this mean I have not Oed yet? Maybe this is why there is no PEAK on my fertility monitor?IMG_2045.jpg

[Jamie86]

How long can you get +OPKs? I am still getting them as of my last around 1:30 today. See pic. Does this mean I have not Oed yet? Maybe this is why there is no PEAK on my fertility monitor?IMG_2045.jpg

I had this question last cycle as I had 4 days of positive OPKs so I would like to see what you find out. I know it is probably somewhere in the thread but how many days of positives have you had?