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    Welcome and good luck to you!!!
    As for who knows we're swaying....my mom, my 4 closest girlfriends, my hubby of course and you guys! I'm a very open person and my friends have known I've wanted a girl for years, so they aren't shocked at all and are very supportive. One of my friends has 2 girls so we've been discussing what she needs to do to increase her chance of a boy It's fun! As for my mom....if she had gone on to have 10 children they would have all been girls! LOL So she's a fountain of knowledge when it comes to swaying because she's a prime example of how to get a girl! LOL
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    Hi and welcome

    I hadn't planned on telling anybody except DH but my sister knows. First she was at my house while I was making a sandwich and she wondered why I was using unsalted butter and I made something up about trying to lose weight and salt making me bloated - then a couple of days later I was at her house and I casually (I thought!) asked her if she was dieting when she conceived her little girl. She figured it out straight away!!
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    I'm glad I'm not alone in not wanting to tell anyone! I've contemplated telling my sister, but she has one of each so I know she wouldn't understand. MaybeI'll tell my mom... after I'm pregnant!!! I'm just not sure what I'm going to tell my doc... anyone have an OB get mad at them for taking the supplements or doing the diet? Just curious.

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    Welcome!!! Dh knows and one of my sisters know. Although she has NO idea the extent I go as far as pH testing. I just mentioned I'm keeping low salt and lots of dairy because "I heard" that increases your chances of a girl but I have kept it low key even to her. She doesn't know I go on this site every day and really research it LOL! My mom knows I'm trying for a girl and she has mentioned it to some family but again it's really low key. I'm playing it off like I kinda want a girl so I'll do a few tweaks and if it's a girl...then great. Reason being: if I have a boy, I want everyone to be just as happy for me and celebrate him just like they would if it's a girl. I don't want anyone's pity because I know I will be just as happy with another darling boy. Dh isn't so into it as I am...he was going along and when I got preg in April we were thrilled only to have a miscarriage so now he's just not into the whole sway anymore...it was a let down
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    My experience in life has been that it's best to never tell anyone anything at all ever about anything and swaying/gender disappointment are no exception!

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    Quote Originally Posted by atomic sagebrush View Post
    My experience in life has been that it's best to never tell anyone anything at all ever about anything and swaying/gender disappointment are no exception!
    LOL!!! This is totally my philosophy

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    Hubby knows of course...

    A good college gal pal of hubby knows but she is very supportive and is happy with my weight lose and self control. She is currently 4wks pregnant with her third and wants a girl but doesn't think she could do the diet so she is expecting to have another boy. With the info I got from her she has 60% chance at having a girl.

    I told one of my cousins because he has 3 girls and his wife is 15wks pregnant. They want a boy so I told them about me swaying so maybe if they have a girl they will join this site in a year or so.

    I told a neighbor only because I wanted to ask her some questions because she has two girls and her neighbor friend has 4 girls. I don't care what they think only because they are not friendly with me so whatever they have to say I don't care. But I did learn that they both lost weight before conceiving and ate very little. The other neighbor drank 12 diet sodas a day and they are smokers.

    I mentioned the swaying to my SIL and my dad... they both rudely said I would be doing so much work and just end up with another boy. POO on them! SIL just doesn't want to loose her step-MIL's attention because she has 1 child who is a girl.

    I would love to tell my MIL because she really really wants a girl. She would be the one to go out and buy whatever we need but I really want to surprise with either a picture of a girl or at delivery. She loves the boys and DS1 always says he is grandmas-boy (never anyone elses) and grandma has to sleep in his room when she comes to visit. DS2 is to wild to sit still but he has always goes to her if I am not around.

    I don't tell my older bro or sisters anything because I know it would get back to my mother and she is the type of person who sees a mom with 4 kids of one gender and 1 kid of another gender and has to say to them "you just had to keep trying for a ____". My mother had GBGGB and she wanted my younger sis to be a boy and my younger bro to be a girl, ha on her. My mother thinks anyone who has more then 2 kids is after a certain family balance but look at her.
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    I've never made my desire for a girl a secret at all, so I told my 4 closest friends and my Mom about swaying. They don't know all the gritty details, but they do know about the diet. There's no way I could have kept it secret anyway - I have a reputation for loving food and never dieting, so they would definitely have noticed I'm not eating much of anything. I'm so happy I told them all, because it means when I don't have to hide anything when I eat with friends. It also takes a lot of stress off me to be able to complain to people IRL about how hungry I am!
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    Other than DH, I have told my 3 closest girlfriends that I am on a "boy diet" that is it. I did not really want to tell them but they did think it was a bit weird when I was closely examining their eating habits over the last year or so (they all have 1 DD each followed by 2 DSs) and asking them questions like so what did you eat before you conceived DD, did you eat the same and "did you always put salt on your sandwitches" etc etc. One is really supportive and keeps telling me that the diet is right and it will work because it matches completely what she ate before DSs as opposed to what she ate when she conceived her DD. The other wanted another DD and tried Shattles with DS2 but it did not work and wishes she knew about the diets, but is considering having another one so wants to see how I go. The last says stuff to me like "you will always only have girls." She is a bit like that though she is a great friend and does not mean to be b...hy, so I don't get upset but I don't talk to her about it anymore. Other people in my family know that I have always wanted 3 kids and expect me to have another one so it is great that there is no pressure or expectation on the gender.

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    My mother and family also think three is more than enough. So we are not telling anyone either. I plan on acting like we accidentally got pregnant because of irregular cycles after my iud had to be removed.

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