Survey!

[LolaInLove]

YES! With both girls, I was working out almost every day, doing 1 hour or more of cardio (very acidifying), never ate breakfast, ate tons of fake sugar and dairy (I had a very high calcium intake due to osteoporosis scare with my mom), never salted anything or ate potatoes or bananas. I never checked my ph, but I am sure it was very low, as I used to have an upset stomach all the time....probably due more to my horrid DH at the time (now ex, thankfully). Speaking of him, he wore tighties and released every day, with or without me. Both were O+12 timing, as I thought I had already ovulated and remembered seeing creamy cm.

I have changed almost everything now, including the DH, so hopefully I'll have a son this last time around!

[Gus]

Very much so! I am a total boy-diet eater. I hate most of the girl diet stuff and I used to drink so much caffeinated pop it was pathetic. Even following the girl diet loosely was a huge pain for me.

[skrimpy]

To me it does... mostly. With my first, a DD, I was eating mostly vegetarian, in college studying technical theatre. So I was up at all hours doing back-to-back shows (especially in the 2 months just before she was conceived) and I was not eating an optimal diet. I have no idea what her bio-dad was eating, lol, but I know what my life was like. I also suspect she was probably an O+12 conception.

With my DS1 and DS2, I was eating much, much better. My diet was really healthy and I got plenty of food - eating lots and lots of protein, getting plenty of salt. The only "non boy" thing about my diet was drinking around 4 cups of milk each day, and having plenty of cheese. But really, I was just well-nourished. Also, the boys' bio-dad was not around much. I have to admit - probably the only reason they got conceived was b/c I was fertile and shooting pheromones all over... that convinced him to stay home long enough to get me knocked up It was probably a timing close to ovulation

DS3 was an intentional sway for blue. I used the same diet (I did not drop the milk) - I just added in boy drinks and some boy supplements. We also timed conception carefully. I am not at all surprised we got a boy. Plus, DH wanted a boy and my man seems to get whatever he wants!

This baby I think I feel confident in why we got another DD... firstly, we were not trying so I was not actively swaying. We had recently changed our diet to go grain-free for DH. DH and I were actively working out and I had lost several pounds and was getting toned up. It was also a fairly stressful time because DH was adopting the 3 older kids and there was a lot of paperwork, talking with our lawyer, and waiting on that for their bio-dad's termination of rights, adoption finalization, etc. I think I was pretty well-nourished, but my body was getting a drastically different diet than it was used to and I was losing weight. I think these things swayed girl. Also, we BD 4 days BEFORE I ovulated (I was charting) and I still managed to get knocked up. We did BD on O day but used a condom that time, so I think it was the 4 days before swimmers hanging around. So at least Shettles-timing wise the last 4 kiddos make sense. And DH wanted this one to be a girl - and he gets what he wants.

I hope he wants the next one to be a boy I am planning to stick with my proven "boy diet," and once my cycles begin again I am going to do boy supplements/drinks... though I don't think we're going to plan a conception again. We will just let the next baby come when he/she will (counting on my usual period of breastfeeding infertility). We have a great boy name I really want to use though!

[Chunky Monkey]

I think so! When I got PG with DS #1, I had a diet with lots of chicken, medium amount of red meat, potatoes, salt, caffiene and not much sugar or sweets. I did a lot of walking, but not much exercize other than that. I was a little underweight. We DTD the day before O and the day of O. I didn't get up right away after and I had the big O. CM was always there and I didn't temp or know anything about PH. I didn't use artificial sweeteners and not much fish. I did drink a lot of milk and eat a lot of cheese though. My husband had a similar diet.

With DS #2, I don't know exactly when I ovulated, but I do think it was another day before or day of O. My diet was similar, but maybe a little more protein and I started eating sweets. The only big difference was that I worked out about 4 days a week and weighed about 15 lbs more than when I got PG with #1.

I have always loved lots of protein, potatoes, caffiene. And I have always disliked artificial sweeteners. I hadn't heard of swaying before, so I didn't know about PH, shallow penetration and no female O :/ I also didn't get up right after.

I am going to sway for #3 and I think I will do the opposite as much as I can. I can only guess from my first 2 pregnancies, that a diet with lots of protein and potatoes and no artificial sweeteners might have had something to do with it. I also think I will try a 4 day cut-off and pray that I get PG with a DD If I don't get PG at all after trying a 4 day cut-off for a few months, I will try a 3 day.

[Orchid]

I was doing moderate excerise, losing weight, eating cereal for breakfast, eating healthy, interviewing for jobs, used OPK to pinpoint O day and got pregnant that cycle. Apart from losing weight everything was boy friendly.

[TTC5]

Yep!
We have 4 girls and have recently learnt my pH is 5.5!
I also rarely ate brekkie, ate lots of dairy and when we BD with the girls we DTD ALL the time!!!!

[puppydogstails]

Yes, know i know better it makes sense to me that i concived two boys. Very boy friendly diet, put salt on everything!! ( not a good habit of mine) high calorie intake, always had a big breakfast LOADS of tea and coffee my DF drank lots of energy drinks and coke and did lots of weights! He wore loose underwear and had cool showers and we dtd right on ovulation both times and all the details of it were boy friendly

[Aqua]

We ate from both group of foods. I would say our diet was 50/50 girl-boy diets when I concieved DD. It did have high fiber though. My sister who has similar diet as mine had a boy.

[Chicky]

I thought I understood why I conceived ds1...the diet was very boy friendly and timing was a 1 day cutoff. However I did the girl diet 100% when ttc the second time and got ds2 so clearly diet wasn't the factor for me. So not really I guess.

[aintnocinderella]

i would say yes 100%, as a rule i love everything boy friendly and as memory serves me right at time of conception was happy and healthy with all three and eating plenty and plenty of crap! this time round i am hoping not only my diet but a long cut off will help. Hubby is on boad and drinks plenty of fake sugar drinks. i am yet to test his PH but i know both boys i had with him were either day of OV or day before. MIddle one was +OPK. For my pink sway i just hope i am one of the lucky ones who just had boys by circumstance and this time round if i switch things up. but there does seem to be far more pink swayers than blue!