So much Truth to the LE Diet!!

[Throwaway_panther]

You sound exactly like my SIL (except for the Diet Pepsi, coffee and alcohol-she drinks literally zero of that), even down to the eating disorder. I thought her personality might overcome everything else b/c she is SUPER high-strung, self-described control freak and very high-stress but she is pregnant with a girl.

Can I ask how you're doing with being pregnant and having an eating disorder? We're all pretty concerned with my SIL. She has only put on 3 lbs (she was around 100lbs when she got pregnant) and her blood pressure has been very low.

Psychologically it's been really difficult, so I feel for your SIL. Everything is going healthy wise for my baby and she's measuring and developing as normally as can be -- despite my eating habits occasionally still being a struggle. A few comments on how "big" I've gotten, despite plenty of compliments, made me borderline suicidal. I hope she's seeing a therapist!

I don't know how far along she is, but I know I got essentially a false positive on both GD tests (it being false confirmed with random blood draws by my midwife). The doctor said this is extremely common for people with EDs and who were very lean before pregnancy.

Everything is fine, but it REALLY triggered my anorexia, so I'd be mindful when she gets to that point (or even if she has and is hiding it out of shame).

My BP has been very low as well, and has even resulted in some brief scares from falls and dizziness :/

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[maidentomother]

What about the people who continuously eat the same yet have say the pigeon pair?? Would this be down to timing do you think? X


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Even if you don't dramatically change your diet, just having a child is a huge change to your life and your biology. How you react to that change is often enough to tilt you towards the other gender. Timing doesn't sway.

[trifecta]

Even if you don't dramatically change your diet, just having a child is a huge change to your life and your biology. How you react to that change is often enough to tilt you towards the other gender. Timing doesn't sway.

Very true, and breastfeeding or getting pregnant right away also sway! Not getting enough sleep, not uncommon when you have babies or toddlers, also might sway.

[atomic sagebrush]

What about the people who continuously eat the same yet have say the pigeon pair?? Would this be down to timing do you think? X


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NO ONE eats exactly the same between conceptions and additionally there are many other physical changes that take place with age that may sway.

Timing does not work and gender swaying is not 100%. Even with "ideal" sways we get opposites 20% of the time. Most people are not doing anything near what we do to sway. My mom had a mostly pink-friendly lifestyle but certainly didn't avoid meat or anything like that. Virtually everyone is doing and eating random meals and not some very strict diet day in and day out.

[atomic sagebrush]

I know. I believe diet does play a huge part but it must then be purely down to timing. Maybe we could ask her say in Twitter when she bd?? Lol


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You are operating under the assumption that gender swaying is 100%. It isn't. The entire human race would have died out a long time ago because people used to eat much more similar diets than they do now and yet still boys and girls are conceived at about 50-50 rate.

People with pigeon pairs are simply lucky. They did NOT sway all out b@lls to the wall for a girl and then do a full on blue sway. They probably didn't give it any thought whatsoever. Maybe their diet was more pink or blue friendly, maybe it was just sort of halfway inbetween boy and girl, there are literally limitless variations on human diet that don't even resemble HE or LE type diets, like very caloric dense vegan diets making boys, and high protein atkins type diets making girls, and everything you can possibly think of.

TIMING DOES NOT SWAY. Period, end of story. I have 4 timing opposites!

There were many times in my life where I probably would have gotten a girl if I'd only TTC at that point. It just didn't happen that I did TTC then. For many people with PP they just get lucky and happen to TTC in a time where they're a little more pink or blue friendly.

[Throwaway_panther]

NO ONE eats exactly the same between conceptions and additionally there are many other physical changes that take place with age that may sway.

Timing does not work and gender swaying is not 100%. Even with "ideal" sways we get opposites 80% of the time. Most people are not doing anything near what we do to sway. My mom had a mostly pink-friendly lifestyle but certainly didn't avoid meat or anything like that. Virtually everyone is doing and eating random meals and not some very strict diet day in and day out.

I thought the sway success rate was much higher on here!

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[atomic sagebrush]

I thought the sway success rate was much higher on here!

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That is a typo. If I was only getting 20% success rate I would simply switch what I was having people do for boys and girls haha. Now corrected.

[atomic sagebrush]

With ideal sways we get opposites 20% of the time. Typo now corrected.