October Chit Chat Thread for Blue Swayers. All welcome!!

[cemas]

Do you girls belive in the male/female moon sign on the day of conception? this was somewhere on IG.Was it right with your kids?

[LolaInLove]

Lola, sorry about flamin af again Would you consider the ivf/pgd route? Could you afford it? That would be fantastic for you wouldn't it! Sorry if this is a rude question

Nah, hunni, not rude at all! No, I don't think we can. I had a phone consultation with a clinic here, and we'd need to essentially pay $700 a month for 7 years...that is, if it works. I just can't see that being a good idea for us. If we didn't have any kids at all, I think I would consider it. We may change our minds in a couple of years and say, hey, this is important enough to us to make huge sacrifices to afford this, but not now. I want to continue to try naturally for a while longer. Don't get me wrong, I'd love to do IVF and throw a boy in there while I'm at it, but not for a while if ever. Honestly, the longer this goes on, the more I think I would be just fine if we never had one and I'm done....I really am ready to get out of this fat ttc suit I have on permanently now, lol. Thanks for asking though, ELP!

[LolaInLove]

Personally I am not going to do o-2 (unless I mess up pinpointing my O) and try to BD once as close to O as possible. If we believe in X and Y characteristics as to speed and life, X will survive longer than Y and I am afraid that we might be increasing X's by doing O-2. Love to hear other thoughts

This has been proven to not be true after all....Shettles came up with this theory, which swaying has been based on for ever, but it turns out he was looking at capacitated and uncapacitated sperm, so that was the difference, not the X or Y. This is why we don't care about the timing as much....and why you see boys come from all sorts of timing, really. So, one less thing to worry about! But if you want to try the once and done approach, I say go for it, just try to dtd about 12-18 hours after your first positive opk, and take at least 2 opks a day so you really pinpoint when you think you get your surge.

[LolaInLove]

Did you have ewcm when you conceived? I can't remember if I've asked you before.

I've been using Instead Softcups this cycle. I tried one for practice and actually found ewcm in it! It wasn't much and was white, but it stretched about 3in. I was sooo excited lol! Hoping it's a good sign for me this cycle.

That is awesome, Alexis! I am using the cups again also. Gotta give my ghost town sperm a boost however I can! I think ewcm can be white, I don't think that's a big deal. You might have already gone for it.....must read on!

[LolaInLove]

Does calcium in prenatal OK? Should we start taking prenatal during swaying? I feel just strange to be asking someone in the store for prenatal without calcium.....

I would MOST DEFINITELY take a regular prenatal with calcium. The no calcium is old IG stuff.....this site is kind of, um, evolved, and we believe more nutrients, including calcium, are best for ttc a boy. There were a lot of failed pink sways on IG back in the day, I remember, and a lot of them took tons of calcium, which is very curious. There are a bunch of threads about the "calcium conundrum" as we call it here, because that theory has also been pretty debunked. There is really no proof that the potassium/sodium thing really matters for boy/girl swaying, it was just hypothesized, I believe. Correct me if I'm wrong here, though!

[LolaInLove]

no spotting ttc. not since fri. im so relieved! my numbers almost tripled in a little less then 48 hours! hopefully that means a sticky little nugget in there!

Oh yay, I'm so glad to read this!!!! I didn't want to post anything if there was something wrong. That is totally a good sign, Tink!!!!

[LolaInLove]

We are sick again ...Im so tired of this. Last month was the same ...good that I did not skipped it or I would be even more angry now. I don't know what to do I hate this. I keep up with the diet , exercise and all but Im so angry !
ahh whatever

Sorry you are sick, that does suck! Just take good care of yourself and try to get some rest. How is DD4 doing? Giving you some uninterrupted nights, I hope!

[LolaInLove]

ELP, when is your big scan? Couple of weeks now, yea?

[LolaInLove]

Do you girls belive in the male/female moon sign on the day of conception? this was somewhere on IG.Was it right with your kids?

I don't personally believe in any of that stuff because all was wrong for at least one of mine.

[cemas]

Hi Flava,
last time i went to whole food store i saw am immunity booster for kids and picked up one for dd. Am going to see if it works. DD too falls sick easily- the cold cought stuff
will let u know if it works.
i have seen that whenever i am on the prenatal i fall sick less.