Did we sway for a girl without knowing?

[mama27]

Hi everyone
I joined this forum last week after realising we could see a nub on my nt scan pic, I have posted it in the ultrasound gender prediction section and everyone says girl so far!! I have 7 children from a previous marriage 4 girls and 3 boys. My dp and I were ttc for a year before I got my bfp in december at 13dpo. That cycle we had actually agreed to have a break but I carried on charting as my cycles are all over the place and looking back I can see that we bd 3 days before and 12 hours after O we definitely did missionary position and I had the big O beforehand(dp likes routine ). I don't add salt to anything at all in my diet and was eating a lot of chocolate and carbs. I never really got any egg white cervical mucous and I ovulated from the left ovary (scan at 8 weeks showed big corpus luteum on the left side) I don't have a fallopian tube on the left after a previous ectopic so the egg must have had to travel across to the right to be fertilised.
Does any of this sound like a girl sway attempt? My dp is convinced it's a girl and I dreamt a while ago of our baby girl so would be absolutely over the moon if it is but feeling a bit worried that I am now setting myself up to be hurt. 14 days until the gender scan

[Butterfly Spirit]

Anything is possible hon, but I HOPE you see PINK!

[mama27]

Me too the more I think about it the more I think I will feel disappointed if it is a boy. Not said that to anyone else as obviously they would think I was being horrible.

[girlmom]

i swayed pink without meaning to. missionary, 5 days before 0 and a 0+12. no red meat, lots of cranberry as i had a uti, i also had a head cold so i was taking sudifed, and vit c. i had lost some weight. bbt was super high. i was taking birth control pills ( when i rememebred). another irish twin. i know i o'd from my left side. hot shower and tighty whities for dh. despite all thats its a boy! you can imagine my shock. i knew it was dd8. hopefully you hear pink, but everyone told me i was having a girl with that minisway i did.

[NeedAGirl!]

I hope you get your desires! Of note though, it is completely impossible for an egg to cross to the other tube so this babe must have come from the R. However, it is totally possible to O more than once so you may have also O'd on the left and for a CL to still be visible from the previous month.

[auroara78]

NeedAGirl, a woman can ovulate from either side and concieve either gender. This is true and proven science. There is a lady I know at work who only has the right ovary/tube remaining (her left ruptured and had to be removed) and she has boy and two girls. There are many more examples etc, a member here was taking clomid and was monitored and knew she had O'ed both pregancies from her right and had two girls.

[mama27]

Auroara since I lost my left tube in 2004 I have conceived followed by then then all from the right side confirmed at early scans.

Needagirl- I have noticed a pattern each time I have conceived of a longer cycle where my body gears up to ov around cd 10 but doesn't and actual ov is around cd 17-24. I always assumed the first try was the left and then the right took over. With this pregnancy I had a long cycle and assumed the same thing had happened but it was the tec who said at my scan that ov had come from the left and that the egg must have migrated. I was also told the same by my consultant after my operation so I don't know

Girlmom-congrats on your boy!

[atomic sagebrush]

I hope you get your desires! Of note though, it is completely impossible for an egg to cross to the other tube so this babe must have come from the R. However, it is totally possible to O more than once so you may have also O'd on the left and for a CL to still be visible from the previous month.

You could also have released eggs on both sides and the U/S tech missed the other corpus luteum.

[NeedAGirl!]

Oh I am not in anyway refuting that you can O on either side or both sides in the same cycle - it happens all the time or that a certain side determines gender - that's just silly - I am just saying it is impossible for an egg to come out of one ovary and cross over to the other tube. That is not possible.

[atomic sagebrush]

I asked Carole about this and she said it could actually happen - personally, I wouldn't bet on it and think it's much more likely that there was a second CL on the other ovary that the tech missed - but there is an ever-so-distant chance that it could occur. The human body is AMAZING!