Brand of Eggs

[Flava]

Yes i did used it, put it in before I got up.

[Hobbermittens]

Was it hard to put in laying down?

[Zivic-Bubac]

Wash the shell with soap and water, and separate the whites carefully--I heard there are more germs in the yolk (?).

I read somewhere that basically all the germs are ON the shell, that's why it's important to wash the shell thoroughly. Although if egg is infected ( with Salmonella ), the germs are in the yolk.
So I guess (hope?) we should be safe from infections.

The best option is to buy pasteurized eggs, but I can't find any I know I can pasteurize them myself, but I can't find that thermometer either so I would probably cook them trying to pasteurize

I'm going with carefully washed organic EW this cycle.

[Zivic-Bubac]

About IC - I think I won't use it again, I obviously don't know how to put it in properly and when trying to pull it out I always panic a lil' bit bcos like Lola said, it does feel like digging up for China LOL!
Plus I remember a lady from IG who somehow managed to misplace it and coulnd't get it out and ended up in ER. Scary!!!

[Flava]

It's not hard to put it in just lay on your back pick up your hips a little .At least I don't find it hard to do.

How can some one misplace it? Like where else you put it?

[atomic sagebrush]

So I've been sifting through all the sway attempts/outcomes on here, IG and PlumLily. I have my own little sheet made up of the various things all the women did that had successful sways. One of the trends I am seeing quite clearly is egg whites. Granted I'm sure I haven't found all of the posted successful sways but right now I have 7 out of 11 that used egg whites and got their boy (one didn't answer the question so I'm assuming that's a no). One of the girls that didn't use egg whites used Pre-Seed instead. Of the mama's that had failed sways for a boy, only one used egg whites. Hmmmmm... I never considered using egg whites before (I used Pre-Seed last month) but now I am. For those of you that use egg whites, what brand do you buy? What do I need to be looking for? I know you put it on the counter to get to room temperature... any thing else I need to know? Are there risks with putting an uncooked egg in your body?

The other overwhelming trend I saw on the successful sways... out of the 11 I read, ALL but one did low calcium. That one did high everything. I've been doubting my low calcium diet lately but I think I'll stick with it for now. For me it's about switching up how things were before and low calcium is definitely the opposite for me

But I can turn around and find you billions of people who conceived billions of baby boys without using egg white. An egg white has never been anywhere near my wazoo and I have four of the critters. The presence or absence of egg white cannot be what is swaying in the vast, vast majority of people and mammals who are having boys.

Those sway stats are fun to look at but you must always keep in mind that they are preselected for what people are told to do for a sway. So most of the blue swayers do egg white and baking soda, but just because they do those things it doesn't mean that's why they are getting boys or that it's the ONLY way to get boys. Egg white may be totally neutral or it may help a ton or it may be that EWCM and Preseed is just as good as egg white...it's just because since egg white is considered the "gold standard" on some of the sites, the people who are the most dedicated to having the "perfect" sway tend to use egg whites. They're also the ones who do everything else they're "supposed" to, to achieve this "perfect sway" and the more obsessed and detail-oriented you get with swaying, the more your testosterone levels go up and that DOES totally sway blue regardless of anything else. As a result, it may be that the people who used egg whites were extra-diligent with their sway in other ways or it may be that the people who were extra-diligent with their sways raised their testosterone or a combo of the two.

Researchers once analyzed rape statistics and found that rapes went up when more ice cream was consumed...that doesn't mean that ice cream causes rape, it turned out that rape and ice cream consumption both increased during the summer months. Sometimes things are simply unrelated coincidence and this is true even when that coincidence is dressed up in fancy science talk.

In terms of a lack of statistics, please understand that this website didn't even go up until Christmas of last year. I wasn't even promoting the Trivers-Willard stuff actively until that point (I mentioned it sometimes on IG but I chose to keep that to a minimum out of respect to Tamara) and I didn't make the HE Diet plan up until well after this site went up. Most people at the beginning were not willing to give up the mineral stuff (and most of them still aren't willing to give it up, which is fine), so it is not at all surprising that there are few successful HE Diet sways yet. I would not give that lack of statistics any weight whatsoever for your decision. You can't expect something that didn't exist until a few months ago to have the same statistical support as something that has been promoted on every other site on the Web for years. It doesn't mean it doesn't work as well as, or better than, the mineral diets.

I promise ya, I ate TONS of calcium with my boys. Plus nuts every day with gobs of magnesium in them. Virtually every failed pink swayer was taking/eating tons of dairy and they still conceived boys despite that. And vice versa because there are plenty of failed blue sways out there too and they were guzzling salt by the barrelful and avoiding dairy like the plague. The calcium cannot be a magic bullet in either direction or there would BE no failed sways. The premise that the FGD is based on, which is that calcium sways pink and sodium sways blue in every animal on the planet from sea slugs through humans, just can't be true or there would be no failed sways, let alone the fact that cultures who eat a lot of dairy have more sons than cultures where they eat very little dairy and are in fact physically incapable of digesting it.

If you don't feel good about calcium, it's fine to limit it, that won't kill a blue sway if you're getting a lot of other nutrients elsewhere and your body just robs your bones and teeth to get the calcium it needs. You see, you're really not depriving your body of calcium at all because if the level of calcium in your blood****** changes in any appreciable way, it means you have a serious medical condition like cancer, kidney disease, and thyroid problems that you can DIE from...it doesn't just change due to changes in your diet regardless of what some other sources say. A healthy person will have a normal amount of calcium in their blood whether they eat tons of calcium or very little because that is how your body is designed to function.

I simply don't want anyone to rely SOLELY on minerals to sway because I think that's not the best sway and I just really really want you guys to get your DG (that is why I waste time doing this rather than crocheting haha). Whatever you do, don't throw the baby out with the bathwater and do/eat things that are not boy friendly in other ways (like Rice Krispies with non-dairy creamer for breakfast, iceberg lettuce salads for lunch, bacon and ham and hot dogs and Campbell's soup for every other meal) in some attempt to chase mineral levels, because those things are terrible for blood sugar and are full of chemicals that will only harm your fertility overall and that is not the way to go for a boy.

[atomic sagebrush]

I read somewhere that basically all the germs are ON the shell, that's why it's important to wash the shell thoroughly. Although if egg is infected ( with Salmonella ), the germs are in the yolk.
So I guess (hope?) we should be safe from infections.

The best option is to buy pasteurized eggs, but I can't find any I know I can pasteurize them myself, but I can't find that thermometer either so I would probably cook them trying to pasteurize

I'm going with carefully washed organic EW this cycle.

But whenever you handle things like egg whites, which you surely must have to handle a bit, they are exposed to germs in the air, on whatever container you used to hold and transfer them, and then whatever is on your hands and the outside of your vagina. And while I'm sure that all of us are scrupulously clean, sh-- happens when you're in a hurry and stressing over swaying, and something sneaks past ya. Germs are all around us all the time and normally they don't hurt anything, but when your cervix is open at ovulation, I just have some concern about shooting a big wad of potentially contaminated EW that can then possibly go onto infect your uterus through the open cervix. Plus, your vajayjay is crawling with organisms anyway both good and bad, with the bad ones held in check by the good, and whenever you change the pH of the vaginal environment, you run the risk of allowing the bad microbes to get a leg up on the competition. That's the reason why your pH is usually low except at ovulation, to keep microbes from overgrowing and causing YI, BV, etc.

Consequently, I prefer both EWCM and Preseed because of less risk of contamination and also they have lower pH than egg whites and are therefore less likely to contribute to infection. Plus I question whether super high pH is really any better for sperm than super low pH is.

[atomic sagebrush]

It's not hard to put it in just lay on your back pick up your hips a little .At least I don't find it hard to do.

How can some one misplace it? Like where else you put it?

Did I leave that dang thing in my purse or what??

One time at ovulation I had my diaphragm in (which is about the same size and shape as the IC) and my cervix was really high and I did have a hard time getting it out. So maybe she was just having a very hormonal ovulation that month!!

I think I would rather live with an IC up there forever rather than go to the ER about it tho! Poor thing.

[Hobbermittens]

eat things that are not boy friendly in other ways (like Rice Krispies with non-dairy creamer for breakfast, iceberg lettuce salads for lunch, bacon and ham and hot dogs and Campbell's soup for every other meal) in some attempt to chase mineral levels, because those things are terrible for blood sugar and are full of chemicals that will only harm your fertility overall and that is not the way to go for a boy.

Okay, but I have been eating some of this stuff. Like canned soup and hot dogs and bacon. Why are they bad for blood sugar? I don't eat them constantly, but several times a week.

My problem is that I can't come up with good protein ideas on the fly. I eat nuts a lot. And beef jerky.

[soontobesix]

But whenever you handle things like egg whites, which you surely must have to handle a bit, they are exposed to germs in the air, on whatever container you used to hold and transfer them, and then whatever is on your hands and the outside of your vagina. And while I'm sure that all of us are scrupulously clean, sh-- happens when you're in a hurry and stressing over swaying, and something sneaks past ya. Germs are all around us all the time and normally they don't hurt anything, but when your cervix is open at ovulation, I just have some concern about shooting a big wad of potentially contaminated EW that can then possibly go onto infect your uterus through the open cervix. Plus, your vajayjay is crawling with organisms anyway both good and bad, with the bad ones held in check by the good, and whenever you change the pH of the vaginal environment, you run the risk of allowing the bad microbes to get a leg up on the competition. That's the reason why your pH is usually low except at ovulation, to keep microbes from overgrowing and causing YI, BV, etc.

Consequently, I prefer both EWCM and Preseed because of less risk of contamination and also they have lower pH than egg whites and are therefore less likely to contribute to infection. Plus I question whether super high pH is really any better for sperm than super low pH is.

I totally agree that you need to be careful about the risk of infection from egg whites.... with that said, outside the risk of salmonella (which is only in 1 out of every 20,000 eggs according to the American Egg Council... and they claim the risk is even lower when it's not actually ingested) the risk of other germs/bacteria based on trying to insert the eggwhite doesn't seem like that big of a threat to me. Yes I know weird things can happen, but I don't think it would be the norm. Not to be gross BUT what else goes in that exact same body crevice every time we have sex?? Our DH's penis! I don't know about all of you, but I sure as heck don't sterlize that before sex! He is a clean person and showers every day, but you can't tell me that the potential for germs is greater from handling the egg whites than from my DH's penis or hands (foreplay anyone?).

I definitely don't think egg whites are for everyone. If you're not comfortable with it, don't do it. Many, many women have done egg whites over the years without infection and have gone on to get pregnant. I've noticed various people mention that their doctor even suggested it to them (in most cases a fertility doctor to increase chances of pregnancy) and it's even mentioned as one of the only safe lube options in TCOYF.