How we got our boys!

[niki38]

I also want to add that I had been a vegetarian for 6 years.. I ate a lot of carbs, not a healthy vegetarian. I never ate veg. or fruit. But I did take vitamins and ate breakfast cereal that was foritified with vitamins. Oh and since I was gaining weight when I conceived, I was eating a lot of dairy queen blizzards at night! lol! I did not drink coffee. I never drank milk (only soy milk in my cereal). I never ate yogurt. I ate a lot of the unhealthy soy "meat" products form the grocery store.

[atomic sagebrush]

DS1 : Gaining weight, ate tons of peanut M&Ms. Always ate breakfast, everyday hada very large bowl of frosted mini wheats with soy milk. A few weeks before trying I switched from one diet coke a day to diet coke with splenda (just one can a day). Drank a decent amount of water. Took prenatals with DHA (not the fish oil kind, the algae kind). Was on a strong antibiotics for 7 days, O'd right towards the end of the round of abx. Haed TONS of EWCM. Had intercourse around 3pm (with Ovulation after he finished), laid in bed propped hips and got on laptop.. and O'd that night around 11:00 pm (I get very bad mittlesmerch) it even woke me up. Does anyone know if having bad mittlesmerch (sp?) is a thing only boy moms get because of hormones?

Good question!!! I have horrible pain before O that tends to go away when I O but some months stays around for days after. I know I had it with some of my boys and also with my girl so my gut would say no but I'll start a thread in the Gender Swaying section and see if anyone has any other experiences.

Just so you know, you can get mittelschmertz before, during, and after O. There is no way to know on basis of O pain when you O.

[envisioned]

Every time I read this thread it is painfully obvious to me I need to eat more aka better. Thanks for all the posts ladies!

[atomic sagebrush]

The awesome thing about this thread is that it really does not seem to make much if any difference WHAT you're eating - there were people doing dairy, some vegetarians, some carnivores, some junk food junkies, some health food advocates - but they were all eating a lot of cals of a wide variety of foods, and eating very regularly!!!

[RNMama]

Well I guess I'll share the things I did to get my two boys. I knew nothing about swaying but now can see why I have boys. I was overweight and ate alot. Not much exercise. Loved salty/sugary foods. Love carbs. Lots of sodium. Fast food. Drank alot of diet pop. I took mucinex, had sex right on O day. Propped my hips for 1/2hour after. Missionary position both times. Had huge orgasms with both. Ds2 was a surprise I was on bcp but wasn't great at taking them religiously. So most of this stuff applies to how we got ds1 although my diet was the same. Dh stands all day for his job and wears boxer briefs. Oh and I did drink a ton of coffee too like a pot a day. Dh did too. I took prenatals too. I'm seeing a trend. Lol. Definitely hoping for pink next time. Boys are awesome though.

[nicolerey15]

Thought i would add mine too. With DS1 I was not swaying just trying to get pregnant so drinking lots of decaf green tea and using preseed and taking a prenatal, no caffeine. I am a slender person and have always been able to eat alot so i always eat the 3 main meals and then lots of snacking especially candy and lots of processed food like crackers and chips (lots of salt) and love milk/dairy. We also BD'd a ton, every day or every other day from end of AF to past O and i always sat with my hips propped for awhile afterwards.

[HappyMedium]

I have 4 boys...I swayed boy without knowing it. I have to say that timing was not a factor though, because looking back at all my charts, we were all over the place. Once here, 2 day cutoff here, all the time, etc....so..Not sure how important timing is.
Diet with all of them included red meats, cheeseburgers, fries, full sugar pop, coffee, chips, salt if on the food--I don't salt anything. Fast food as well. I am not a milk drinker, so swaying pink has been an eye opener.
DS1 no workout
DS2 no workout
DS3 working out/lifting weights
DS4 had been dieting and doing cardio

I always ate 3-6 meals a day depending on what I was eating. ALways ate breakfast, Always ate until I was full or over full. I put on muscle very easily and am pretty lean all the time. Not working out or eating my protein has been STRANGE-- starting to feel like Angelina Jolie. LOL I am a high stress Type A personality, so that is another change in trying to have more control over my behavior and stress less, relax more. ALWAYS drank Green tea and had ABUNDANT EWCM most of AF-O...very slippery. Ate 2-3 bananas a day, as well as apples. Drank regular sugar pop. Ate bags York Peppermint Patties, Took B100 vitamins, baby aspirin and prenatal. HTH!!!!!!

[laura1989]

Hi, i have 2 boys, i didnt sway for either. With both i was eating quite a healthy varied diet, eating pretty much what i wanted with lots of meat (mainly red meat everyday). With both my boys i either remained the same weight or gained a little. With both boys i was having a little to drink at the weekends (a blue vodka drink which is packed with sugars). DS1 we were BD everday (sometimes 1/2times a day) for at least 2 weeks (dont know when i ovulated as didnt chart it). With DS2 we were BD on my peak days according to my fertility monitor & i was taking vitex. My fiance does weights every evening & i didnt exercise at all.

[missgozo]

Hi, I have two sons, 12 years apart and although I did not sway for either I know at both points I was a massive sweet eater, penny sweets, haribos, any sugar like that I could get, I would get through far to many and always lots of meat of some sort at least once a day. Very little milk as I did not like it. With my first son I never had yoghurts or cheese at that time either, but a few with my little one now. Good luck to you all of you!

[The Anchor]

I swayed for my son...although it turns that the HE isn't a diet at all for me...it's my lifestyle. I love meat! Dairy! Salt! Low sugar, we don't even have soda in our house. Lots of juice though. Protein drinks every morning. What really did it for me (at least in my mind) was the RJ/BP. I'd only been taking it for about 6 weeks, but I just felt "boy"ish somehow. Maybe it affected my hormones...