New to Board & Trying for a Boy

[The Anchor]

Welcome! I got my boy doing a Travis Willard sway (on Atomic's advice). GL!

[essnce629]

Awesome! I am the type of person that can eat the same thing everyday and not get sick of it- this is the meal plan I have made for myself for the time being- let me know what you think or if you have any suggestions. They are greatly appreciated!

Breakfast: egg whites/ tomato/ full fat cheese/ avocado on multi grain english muffin

Snack: 2 rice cakes w/almond butter, banana and shredded coconut

Lunch: sweet potato & soup

Snack: Trail Mix

Dinner: I vary too much. My breakfast/lunch/snacks are easy to keep track of because I need to plan and pack for lunch.

I am also taking women's one a day (DH is taking men's one a day) and I am taking a prenatal (which I have been for a few months to grow my hair)

I don't drink coffee, but I have been drinking a lot of lemon water, regular water and green tea throughout the day. I also try to have a glass of coconut water and will try to do a teaspoon of coconut oil, because I heard the benefits are tremendous.

Lastly- I mainly do cardio, but I am beginning to incorporate weight training into my routine.

What do you guys think? Should I add/change anything? Does everything stand out as ok?

Are you vegetarian? I don't see any meat listed in your diet at all. I have two boys and eat meat twice a day usually-- lunch and dinner. I also think you need to do the entire egg, not just egg whites for breakfast. The yolk is where all the nutrients and fat are which is what you need for a boy sway. I'd add bacon or sausage with your breakfast, chicken on a salad for lunch, and another meat dish with your dinner.

I have two boys and here's what I did naturally:

Multivitamin, probiotics, vitamin D, fish oil, and b-complex daily
No coffee, alcohol, soda, or diet drinks ever
Full fat dairy daily
High protein cereal like Kashi Go Lean Crunch
2 attempts in fertile window
No exercise
Green or white tea daily
Salmon regularly over white fish
Usually had seconds with dinner

[francisrich]

Not a vegetarian! Good point...I usually have meat for dinner, but I definitely should incorporate it into lunch as well.

Full fat dairy...do you mean whole milk? I don't know if I can do whole milk (I'm not a milk person in general) , but maybe I can substitute with yogurt?

Thank you for your insight!

[essnce629]

Yes whole milk. No need to drink milk if it's not your thing, but you should definitely add whole milk yogurt (preferably Greek style), regular cheese (not low fat), cottage cheese, etc.

[francisrich]

Another question- I don't drink coffee, but I drink a lot of green tea which I know helps a blue sway. At the same time, I know caffeine does not help a blue sway. Should I be drinking decaf green tea?

Also, if DH drinks one cup a coffee a day (he's trying to ween off of it) can he supplement with caffeinated green tea?

[atomic sagebrush]

Mod caff intake is fine. Higher levels seem to sway pink but a sensible amount of caff was shown in the best study ever done on maternal diet and gender conceived, to be neutral.

DH can both continue with that small amount of coffee and also or instead have green tea.

[atomic sagebrush]

Yes whole milk. No need to drink milk if it's not your thing, but you should definitely add whole milk yogurt (preferably Greek style), regular cheese (not low fat), cottage cheese, etc.

between my 2nd and 3rd boy I became lactose intolerant, but continued eating tons of dairy. So I got 2 boys drinking milk, and 2 boys eating tons of full fat cheese and yogurt. (I would eat 4 oz. of cheese every morning for breakfast!)

[atomic sagebrush]

Whole eggs???

you're taking both a Women's One a DAy and a prenatal?? Overdose of vitamins is not good and I would have you do ONE of these and not both.

Everything else is looking great!

[francisrich]

Thank you, Atomic! I will just stick to one. At any point (like 6 weeks out) can you take multiple vitamins? Or should you stick to just one? I see on the blue sway spreadsheet that there's quite a few that sway blue, like evening primrose, false unicorn root (those names just stick out to me lol). Can you combine these?

[atomic sagebrush]

I never recommend FUR, it's endangered and most of what you get any more is garbage from other sources.

Evening primrose can be used along with other supps but you have to be sure you're taking equal or greater amounts of fish oil along with it.