TTC girl - September 2012

[mydream]

wishing all the September swayers BFP's!!!!!

[genieinabottle1]

so after all that, i had a massive temp drop this morning, so i didn't ovulate after all! still, all good, means we have more attempts in

No problem, Lassie, no biggie! Looks like you are going to O today! Hope there's a nice temp rise for you tomorrow am!

[ThreeMenAndALAdy]

Good luck cvd. That's what I did and got a bfp my first month.

[Butterfly Spirit]

Gold Star for me please! I managed a second attempt this afternoon!
Another positive opk, so hopefully we have caught the egg.
Will see what my temps do tomorrow, will be interested to see where FF pins ovulation

Lassie, here you go babe:

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I think you have a STRONG PINK sway this month.
I am glad you gritted your teeth and hung on, 'literally'
and didn't skip this month!

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[Lassie1982]

Love it butterfly!!!! Thank you a million times


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[Lassie1982]

Thanks hope *hugs*
I really hope we can be BFP buddies!!!!
Come on swimmers!!


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[suregena]

:/ Have not temped... not using OPKs, have gained loads of weight, etceteraetcetera... I am showing fertile signs now. Part of me is too scared to try because everything is heavily boy... I am probably back to the weight I was when I conceived my son. My husband didn't want me back on the diet... but I'm now hesitating to try this month. I want to get out of the 120s again... this whole month after the last cycle has been a fail. Around ovulation last cycle I got down to 114... but I think my ovulation happened later than my chart said (I went on holiday and stopped temping... I think it happened then, ugh!)

Now I'm 122 or thereabouts.... just, ugh. I don't know what to do... there's practically zero sway factors and all likely quite boy friendly.

Took soy this month, taking antihistimine, folic acid.... eating with an odd breakfast day when I cave in... using soy milk mostly...

Husband said he'd FR....

We're both already vegetarian.

But, eh.... I'm just struggling and I think time is ticking so I need to make a decision. I SO want to get pregnant. I wanted to be pregnant MONTHS ago... but I still hesitate because I still want a shot at a girl, even if I'd be happy with a boy. It's not worth stressing over.... I've put all this in my head. If I had never heard about it, we'd have just tried for a baby without all this fuss... so partly, I feel annoyed with myself that I ever typed into google "how to conceive a girl"... but it's all in my head now.


So conflicted right now.

[Lassie1982]

:/ Have not temped... not using OPKs, have gained loads of weight, etceteraetcetera... I am showing fertile signs now. Part of me is too scared to try because everything is heavily boy... I am probably back to the weight I was when I conceived my son. My husband didn't want me back on the diet... but I'm now hesitating to try this month. I want to get out of the 120s again... this whole month after the last cycle has been a fail. Around ovulation last cycle I got down to 114... but I think my ovulation happened later than my chart said (I went on holiday and stopped temping... I think it happened then, ugh!)

Now I'm 122 or thereabouts.... just, ugh. I don't know what to do... there's practically zero sway factors and all likely quite boy friendly.

Took soy this month, taking antihistimine, folic acid.... eating with an odd breakfast day when I cave in... using soy milk mostly...

Husband said he'd FR....

We're both already vegetarian.

But, eh.... I'm just struggling and I think time is ticking so I need to make a decision. I SO want to get pregnant. I wanted to be pregnant MONTHS ago... but I still hesitate because I still want a shot at a girl, even if I'd be happy with a boy. It's not worth stressing over.... I've put all this in my head. If I had never heard about it, we'd have just tried for a baby without all this fuss... so partly, I feel annoyed with myself that I ever typed into google "how to conceive a girl"... but it's all in my head now.


So conflicted right now.

Firstly *hugs*
Secondly go and DTD!

Ive been where you are - I've faced the fact that a hard core girl sway just doesn't work for me - and it doesn't seem to work for you either (i mean just LOOK at what it does to your cycles!!)
This doesn't mean that we CANT have baby girl's.
We still have just as much of a chance to have a girl as anyone else...

Try and block the 'boy' friendliness out of your mind (easier said then done, i know) If it helps up, read up on some failed boy sways - ladies that did EVERYTHING that sways blue and STILL had pink.

If you want more children then i really think you need to stick to the 3 main sway aspects and just carry on TTC. (vege, no breakfast, no snacking)
If you don't want more children and only want a daughter (does that make sense?) then carry on with a super heavy sway, but pls see that your body is rebelling against it and it can't be good - maybe you should consider HT then?

I know its a tough one hun, believe me i do, but in the words of the great Atomic, you can't have your dream gender if you can't get pregnant at all.

Even with a limited sway, you are still doing MORE then many other do, who have GIRLS, so surely thats gotta swing the odds in your favour, right

My sway is very 'weak' from that perspective. Im not watching my total intake religiously and am sure i am over some days.
My body cannot take any more weightless so there is none of that.
But I'm vegetarian
I skip breakfast
And I really avoid snacking....

SO - Chin up, and be confidant that you still have a great shot at a girl

Good Luck!!!!

(ps, i'd still temp and opk just so that i can be aware of whats happening and when)

[sweetpea]

I totally agree with Lassie, and can't add a single thing. She said it perfectly. Sending you some BIG ***hugs*** and letting you know we're all here for you, suregena. Just do the best you can, that's all any one of us can do. Good luck, sweetie!

[suregena]

The weight gain bothers me... I've been bad for snacking, sort of... have eaten breakfast but have also skipped breakfast (i.e. yesterday and day before I had no breakfast... today I had two slices of toast.)

But, generally, I've been eating *whatever*... but I've gained weight.... fast and furious. It's like my body is just completely fried... like the diet really freaked it out and everything is all over the place... but I just feel fatter, flabbier than ever.

HT is no option for me... I don't feel that desperate. I'd have 3 kids, my husband ideally wants 2 for eco reasons, but would go to 3. Any others we will adopt (we plan to adopt at LEAST one child in the later future.)

But it's just because it is in my head as a possibility, I think it has increased the desire, if that makes sense? Like before I knew about "swaying", I would have just happily tried to get pregnant, and even if I were inside crossing my fingers for a girl, I would have been happy with a boy.

If I have a boy... I'd *still* feel happy, but I feel like I should make an effort, anyway.

I keep watching midwife/birth shows and shed tears just as much for the baby boys born as the baby girls, so obviously I just am ready for another *baby*.... but it's hard to shake the little "boy/girl" family of four vision in my mind. Ideal but not realistic... not for everyone, since it's such a roll of the dice.

I probably will still try... I'm going to use rephresh even (I have one tube left after the very first sway attempt that I didn't even get through because my O was so so delayed late last year) on top of the other stuff, to try to make up for my fatty vegetarian diet as of late. :/

I wish I could have been more 100% on the no snacking/breakfast... two holidays in one month and just feeling very blah, it's not gone so well. Just really have been very "whatever" this month, up until feeling like my fertile signs are showing... and now I'm hesitating - go figure.

But I want a baby. A BABY! So what's my problem?

I'll still go for it. My son needs a sibling. But, just not happy with myself. I wish I still had my husband's support for the diet... might have meant I wouldn't have been so bad in my eating and gained all of this weight. The gaining weight = boy thing is what bothers me... and I conceived my son while on holiday... and I've just gone on TWO this month. TWO!!! It's a complete repeat.