My official blue sway plan!- started August 1st

[Tali.kah]

Start spacing them out further now and then just run the bottle out, I'd not replace them.

Any other tips for me !!!!! It's sway month! Should I amp up anything? How about the week before or week of O???
I'll take mucinex 3-5 days before O
We'll practice every 2-4 days unprotected BD/release
September is sway #1 attempt !!!!! According to my app O will be at the end of September!

[atomic sagebrush]

Nope, the only thing you guys need to change at that last month is being sure hubby does the regular release and do the guaifenesin and it sounds like you got that covered!!!! Good luck and tons of blue dust headed your way!

[Tali.kah]

Hmmm there seems to be more activity in the pink swayers section than the blue!!! I come on the forums looking to read stuff almost 3x a day lol!

Atomic I found a post where you mentioned English black tea so I've been having that since sept 1st- almost everyday but 3-4x a week on average. I haven't had coffee in a week.

I'm so nervous to make this attempt!

Aug 1 I was 178 lbs and now I'm 183!!!

[atomic sagebrush]

There are more pink swayers, unfortunately! But I know of a lot of blue swayers who want to chat more and support each other, so come on you shy blue ladies! There are other people here who can support each other!

switching to tea! People always ask (since I have 20 years between my oldest boy and my youngest) "what did you do all that time that got you so many boys and that is the number one thing I did year after year was drink tea!

I want you to try to hold steady on weight from here on in by cutting back on any extraneous sources of calories that you don't strictly need! If u want me to look over your diet and see what I would switch up to stop the weight gain, I'd be happy to.

[Tali.kah]

There are more pink swayers, unfortunately! But I know of a lot of blue swayers who want to chat more and support each other, so come on you shy blue ladies! There are other people here who can support each other!

switching to tea! People always ask (since I have 20 years between my oldest boy and my youngest) "what did you do all that time that got you so many boys and that is the number one thing I did year after year was drink tea!

I want you to try to hold steady on weight from here on in by cutting back on any extraneous sources of calories that you don't strictly need! If u want me to look over your diet and see what I would switch up to stop the weight gain, I'd be happy to.

Thank you Atomic !!!! I'm a vegetarian so I've been carb heavy here and there which I know isn't good- I'm making a conscious effort to stop! I also should be working out a bit more this month than last.

Today-

Breakfast: kashi go lean triple berry cereal with whole milk

Snack: black English tea with splash of whole milk and 2 pieces of 70% dark
Chocolate

Lunch: kale superfoods salad with pumpkin seeds and a veggie patty

Snack: celery with cream cheese and a pure protein bar

Dinner: big taco salad: sour cream, cheese, guacamole, black beans, onions, lettuce, tomatoes all in a crispy tortilla shell

Snack: Greek yogurt and 1/4 or less of mixed nuts (almonds, cashew, Brazil)

Today was a good day but I've had days where dinner will be a veggie burger with fries or lunch will be too carb based etc. I don't eat eggs either so it's tricky for me to sneak in that protein everywhere I can!
I'm really hoping my upped dairy intake, especially the whole
Milk (because I had given it up for 5-6 years) helps
Me!

[atomic sagebrush]

Yes honestly that looks like the right type of foods, so in that case then just cut back portions by a bit or have ONE option instead of both when you are having two things. So instead of having the salad and the veggie patty, have just the salad (the nuts will probably be enough protein), cut back the size of the taco salad, pick either the nuts or the yogurt, not both. But that having been said I suspect adding in more exercise will really help too!!!

[Tali.kah]

Swaying does change your cycle around, usually for pink swayers, occasionally for blue. We don't know if it's any better or worse for blue swayers' ovualtion to come later.

It's possible you could have gotten pregnant but peak OPK CD 18 means you'll likely O 1-2 days later, so that would be quite far out from the attempt. Try not to worry!! FXFXFX for this NOT being the month!

Atomic.... it happened.... AF was due to arrive today/ didn't show, took a test... it's positive !!!! What... the... heck?!?!?!?!


Bd aug 25 (cd 14)
Bd aug 27 (cd 16)

Positive OPK aug 29
Held off on BD because I DIDNT want to get preg this cycle .... aye yiy yiy

I'm super nervous
-this is going to cause difficulty with me going back to work, I'll probably have to go back to work earlier than I wanted (currently off with my DD)

-our BD pattern was horrible and I'm sure it's going to be a girl. Ugh.

I'll post my official sway in the blue sway thread later - once I process this news- I did start the HE diet aug 1st and was perfect with my walks, few works outs, sips and diet!
The BD around O is just ruined !!!!!!!

I was so excited and pumped to sway properly this month!

[atomic sagebrush]

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I suspect that you had the dreaded false negative OPK and ovulated sooner than you thought you did. The OPK only picked up the surge on the back end, not the front! You could easily have ovulated on CD 16/17 and perfectly timed attempts for a boy there.

I'm so sorry about your work plans though! I'm sorry to hear that.

[Tali.kah]

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I suspect that you had the dreaded false negative OPK and ovulated sooner than you thought you did. The OPK only picked up the surge on the back end, not the front! You could easily have ovulated on CD 16/17 and perfectly timed attempts for a boy there.

I'm so sorry about your work plans though! I'm sorry to hear that.

There you are !!!!! I was waiting for your reply- I'm so so so nervous Atomic!!!! I was going to have the perfect end of September sway! Everything was bought- my mucinex just came 2 days ago!!!! Jeez!!!

What's done is done- but I'm just kicking myself if this ends up being a girl because I didn't get to fully sway with the BD the way I wanted to! I can't believe I actually got preg the one month I didn't want to ?!?!?!
I mean off course I'll be happy with a healthy baby as always- DD will get a sister- but I was really really excited and ready to sway!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If somehow this ends up being a boy- oh man, I don't know what I'll do with the excitement but I'm fully prepared for it to be a girl- and the good thing is I know why it'll most likely be a girl. Ugh. We do want 3 kids so I guess there's always one last attempt left in a couple years.


The work thing is stressful but I'm going to wait until I get my dating ultrasound to contact human resources. I'll worry about that in Octoberish. Worse case scenario I'll go back to work in November instead of December like I was supposed to.

[atomic sagebrush]

Remember though, most people get a girl and a boy or a boy and a girl without doing ANY of this stuff! 50% of everyone just has 2 babies and gets the pigeon pair without even trying! So you CAN absolutely still get a boy no matter what!!

Good luck with HR!!!