Due June/July/ August 2017

[GirlieCat]

Just a quick question - what is the safe way to wean down folic acid dose? I have been on 1500 mg since being on the le diet. I have now added in a pregnancy multi which has 500 mg and am continuing to take 1000mg of folic acid as well but I am not sure how to safely decrease this to just the pregnancy multi. Any advice would be appreciated.

I am in the same boat Kelbear. I take 1600 total- 800 in prenatal and 800 individual folic pill. I am 12w now so I am going to start spacing out my extra 800 next week. Maybe every other day at first then cut pill in half and start doing 400 every other day, then every third or 4th day. I am still warning off my metformin too and because that controls blood sugar I went for a longer wean of about 3 weeks to be fully off it. I am happy to eventually take less pills.

Anyone else taking fish oil pill? Doc said I could take it all through pregnancy but he said same with with 1600 folic and I know you are supposed to decrease that so not sure I trust him.

[GirlieCat]

Yeah Norskie, glad you joined us. Happy to have you and wishing you a healthy and happy pregnancy.

[norskie2005]

Welcome norskie, and congratulations on your pregnancy. Did you sway? Hoping you have a healthy and happy 9 months. :-)

Yes we did try and sway, it wasn't a hard sway though. I had a personalized plan with Atomic which helped a lot. I was doing so well with diet until we had a house fire and then everything was out the window with diet. So my diet wasn't the best when we conceived, but I did have some things that I was able to keep changed compared to how my diet was when I conceived my boys. I'm hoping what we did was enough. We also did one attempt at fist +opk after abstaining for 7 days.

[MrsSparkles]

Norskei - Congratulations !

GirlieCat. I just started doing only the folic acid in my prenatals from week 10.
Taking the Ocean Moms - Prenatal DHA now. Will take it during BF too, as apparently it can be helpful

[Cnburke]

Hey ladies ! Can I join ? I'm due August 21st & swayed blue ! I have two DD's
Sometimes I feel like it's a boy then I tell myself don't be silly it's a girl . Anyone else battle themselves like that? lol I'm worried my 'intuition' is bias hahaha

[Cnburke]

Also , hopefully you ladies can give me some feedback on my sway :

*We had 4 attempts in the fertile window and before that it was every 3 days.
*used preseed on 3 of the 4 attempts
*laid down for 30 minutes at least after each attempt
*used missionary position with legs over dh shoulders
*female O each attempt
*took prenatals every day for 2 months before conception
*dh & I both took coq10 morning and night for 2 weeks before conception
*dh took multi vitamins for 2 weeks before conception
*i took 4 wheatgrass capsules morning and night for 2 weeks before conception
*tried my best to increase potassium which included 2 99mg capsules a day and through diet (banana smoothies, coconut water, OJ)
*avoided acidic foods
*ate average 2300 calories a day - on diet about 2 months
*atw cereal almost every day
*always ate breakfast
*tried to keep positive ions up - cell phones , laptops , iron , etc.
*dh only wears boxers
*no saliva used during attempts (kills sperm)
*gender calendars say boy (not that it means much lol)
*dh & I both took probiotics daily
*i was on antibiotics prior to O for a short time which MAY sway blue.

A couple things I'm worried about -
Moon phase was girl - although my dd1 was conceived in a boy moon phase so not a huge deal .
I had a pretty nasty cold prior to O
1 of our 4 attempts I did not have fertile cm and we didn't use preseed
Not sure we were taking some of our supps long enough to make a difference

We plan to find out in January with the blood test I'm nervous as can be !
Praying morning sickness stays away . I swear I believe in the morning sickness theory = girl lol . I know not for everyone but it seems to be that way in my family . I had hyperemesis with dd2

[MrsSparkles]

I think that looks like a great sway.
Wouldn't worry too much about the moon phase, there's not really any hard evidence that it works.

Congratulations and welcome

[All*blue*everything]

So ive finally decided how to do our gender reveal over Christmas!
I've ordered scratch cards with boy and girl and once we know what baby is we will be dishing them out to our families and watching their reactions! So excited x

Sent from mTalk

[GirlieCat]

Cute idea All Blue. That will be fun. So excited to see what you are having.

Welcome Cnburke. Happy to have you join. Congratulation. I don't know boy sways well but that sure does look complete opposite of a girl sway. Lots of blue dust to you. Are you going to get any early NIPT testing done or wait till second trimester ultrasound?

[Cnburke]

I am going to get the gender blood test at 9 weeks . I clearly have no patience this time ! Hahaha