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[lovey dovey]

Hi mama! yes if you swayed would you PLEASEEEEE share your story?

You bet! I did sway with my daughter. I wrote down a few of the details in another post today, so I'll copy and paste:

I did supplements (cranberry, calcium, magnesium + prenatal and folic acid) plus diet for six weeks. I stuck to the diet (which was VERY different from the way I usually eat) really quite well. I would hold off on breakfast until about 10:30 - 11:00 and then would have a strawberry smoothie (1 cup skim milk, 1/2 cup plain non-fat Greek yogurt, 1 1/2 cups frozen strawberries, 10-12 ice ****s, and 6+ packets equal in blender - it makes enough for two big glasses, so I'd always freeze one to thaw and eat the next day) every morning. These are really yummy and I never got tired of them - they motivated me to stick with it! The rest of my meals would revolve around calcium-enriched pasta (in purple box), egg beaters, white rice, crystal light, green beans, cucumbers, chicken, corn flakes, strawberries, raspberries, low-sodium bread, unsalted butter and a little parmesan here and there. There were probably a few other foods in there that I can't recall off of the top of my head, but those were the biggies. I drank some milk, but didn't over-do it, either. I wanted to be sure it didn't add to much of the boy-friendly minerals to my sway. I don't care for the taste of yogurt, so the only time I ate it was mixed in a smoothie. For timing, we abstained for a week or more before we began our sway and then did frequent bd (am and pm) for a couple of days until I had a smiley face on my OPK. I didn't use replens or anything like that, but I did use sudafed before bd and I did get up and use the bathroom right away - no hip propping. I was down about 10 lbs from when I had conceived my boys (from chasing them, I suppose) when I started the diet. I lost about 5 more lbs on the diet. I'm not a very big person to begin with, so that was a significant amount of weight for me. My husband didn't really do much to sway - I think he cut back on caffeine around O and took a couple of hot baths, but that was it. I tried to put my effort into diet and supplements and didn't worry about the rest. I get stressed easily and so that's what worked best for me. We left the rest in God's hands and prayed!

I remember taking: Target brand prenatal (had 200 mg. calcium, 800 mg. folic acid, and no magnesium), 2 tablets/day Nature's Bounty cranberry (CVS), 1000 mg. calcium carbonate (CVS), 250 mcg. magnesium oxide (CVS), and 400 mg. folic acid

Hope this helps!

[atomic sagebrush]

Brilliant! Thanks for sharing and WELCOME!!

[DoulaMama]

Welcome!!! Good luck with your pink sway!

[Rose]

Welcome!

[Sunset]

welcome!