September blue swayers chat thread!!

[Sonia2003]

Thank you Cinss and Waffles!

I love reading others food idea, and it gives me a base of where to start from. I have the worst sweet tooth so I need to give up my sweets, which will be hard for me!

Did you ladies drink a lot of fruit juice as recommend in the FGD or just stick to V8?

[TTC5]

I'm finally home from hospital!!!

How is everyone? Update me!!

[Blueplease]

Hi all... Wow so much info. Ttc5 I have followed your story since I joined a fewcweeks back. Big congratulations on your prince. I'm looking to start the sway in the next week or so with an attempt in dec/ Jan. I just feel so overwhelmed. We have looked into PGD which would obviously be a financial burden.. Dh wants to still go for it but I wantbto give swaying a go. I'm just gathering all the info at the mo... The abbreviations are confusing me. Could someone please clarify.

Dpo, bfp, af, bfn, profile ticker???...

I have ordered clear blue ovulation testing kit and thing I need to start testing around 1st oct. Can someone please explain in ABC terms what I should be documenting- is the surge the lead up to my ovulating days.

I know shettles say timing but am getting mixed feelings on here that timing has nothing to do with it. Please can someone clarify.

Also in addition to checking cm, should I be recording my vaginal ph.

Thanks...

[Butterfly Spirit]

Dpo, bfp, af, bfn, profile ticker???...

AF- Aunt Flo, menstrual period
2WW- 2 Week Wait
LP- Luteal Phase - 14 days after ovulation
DH- Dear/Damn husband.
DD- Dear daughter
DS- Dear son
DP- Dancing Partner; spouse, or significant other
DPO- Days Past Ovulation
DB- Dear Boyfriend
M/C- Miscarriage
TTC- Trying to conceive
EWM- Egg white cervical mucus
OPK- Ovulation prediction kit
FR- Frequent release
BD- Baby dance
BBT- Basal Body Temperature
Beta- Blood test for PG
BFN- Big Fat Negative (Pregnancy Tests)
BFP- Big Fat Positive (Pregnancy Test)
CB- Cycle Buddy - Same cycle day as yourself!
CD- Cycle Day
CL- Corpus Luteum
CM- Cervical Mucus
CP- Cervical Position
DTD- Doing The Dance, BD, sex
EDD- Estimated Due Date
EPO- Evening Primrose Oil
LR- Licorice Root
HCG- Human Chorionic Gonadotropin - detected in HPTs
HPT- Home Pregnancy Test
LH- Luteinizing Hormone - detected in OPKs
LP- Phase, days between ov & AF
O- Ovulation
POAS- POAS - pee on a stick (pregnancy test).
PG- Pregnancy, pregnant
PNV- Prenatal Vitamin

The ticker is the cute little countdown thingy at the bottom of each person's post.. such as how many days they are on their cycle, or pregnancy, or child's first birthday etc.

[Blueplease]

Omg thx you so much. I would never have guessed half of those. Ha! Did you do your own sway or get a personalized sway one on here by AS. How long did you sway for beforehand... Food, suplemtes etc. Do you thing timing plays. Part in it. Did you specifically DTD ( I'm learning) few days before o wanting a girl?? Are supplements best way to get ph levels/ cm up?? Thanks agsin

[Butterfly Spirit]

Omg thx you so much. I would never have guessed half of those. Ha! Did you do your own sway or get a personalized sway one on here by AS. How long did you sway for beforehand... Food, suplemtes etc. Do you thing timing plays. Part in it. Did you specifically DTD ( I'm learning) few days before o wanting a girl?? Are supplements best way to get ph levels/ cm up?? Thanks agsin

I responded to your message in my Vitex Journey sweetie.

[Pearl327]

I'm finally home from hospital!!!

How is everyone? Update me!!

Welcome back TTC5, How are you getting on with your little man?

I am on 5DPO and will be testing a week from today if I can hold out that long.

[3Pink1Blue]

Sonia - 1-Foods/drink - bacon and eggs for breakfast & a couple glasses of green tea every day. Fish oil was amazing for producing tone of ewcm.
2- I eliminated processed foods. Meat, fruits, veg, nuts and a little bit of bread was the essence of my diet. Everything home cooked and full of fat and nutrients.
3 - I was trying for 6 months and, if I remember right, in that time gained nearly 30 lbs. I choose to believe that each lb was necessary but logically know less gain would be fine lol

I drank one glass of blueberry pomegranate juice a day or made it into jello, it really helped with the sweet tooth.

Welcome Blueplease! Get yourself a fertilityfriend.com account and record your waking temp and your opk results. Remember to take the opk in the afternoon as you can get a false positive in the morning. After a few months you will figure out how soon to the positive you ovulate, for me it's 12-18 hrs so we dtd the night of the positive. Once you know about when you ovulate I suggest you stop temping, it'll drive you mad.
I'm not a believer in pH as I conceived my son while never getting my pH above 5.5 but I do believe the more ewcm the merrier

Pearl - woohoo! I love knowing others will be poas soon lol

[Sonia2003]

3Pink1 Blue, THANK YOU for your diet help. Thats where I struggle and I know diet is really important. I will take the bits and pieces of everyones advice and come up with a plan for me. Did you watch calcium? Or just include full fat dairy?

Blueplease, welcome! I spent the last year on the HT/PGD road, and now back to swaying so I am learning as well.

I read as much as I could on here and also got a custom plan from Atomic which helped ease my mind as well. Its worth it for the plan and also the help she provides.

[Blueplease]

I responded to your message in my Vitex Journey sweetie.

Ok thx you. Sorry. Still trying o navigate around this forum. I will have a look now . X