How we got our boys!

[atomic sagebrush]

Thanks Dancin! We want to keep these threads going and get as many experiences as we can all in one place, so everyone please feel free to add your experiences even tho the thread was started last year.

[Tiffani3]

Hi girlys thought I'd add mine I hope it helps!
Ds1 was conceived second month after m/c felt like it was because I was so thin so started eating really heathy loads of full fat milk, meat with every meal really salty foods loads of veg etc.
Ds2 was my ooops baby was going through such a bad time with dh and never ate breakfast, lunch I would have a bowl of crunchy nut corn flackes full fat milk also would drink tea with full fat milk too! Dinner would have been takeaways, or meat potatoes veg not massively full of salt but I do love chrisps and would snack on the if I was hungry
Ds3 was conceived just after Christmas so had been stuffing my face for weeks and was ttc so thought it best to carry on eating loads, still loads of full fat milk in my tea but was still in the habit of not eating breakfast!
Oh and I love my sauces any meal I eat had to have at least two different flavours eg salad cream/tomato ketchup/BBQ sauce/sweet chilli/mayo I love sauce mmmm
Oh lastly I only buy olive oil to cook with or salted butter

I hope any of that helped you GL xxxx

[Ktiguewantspink]

Hi everyone,

I have found everyones else's information so helpful so I wanted to add my experience.

Okay with ds1 I was on birth control for ten years straight and never stopped it or missed a day so when i wanted to have kids i was confused as to why my period never returned once i stopped taking the bcp. Anyway I thought something was wrond so i had testing and ended up at the RE being diagnosed with low estrogen caused by lack of nutrients or from over exercising. Either way they put me on clomid, encouraged me to eat high fat, full dairy and stop exercising so i did. I began looking into how to increase my fertility (little did i know it swayed blue) so i took mucinex, robitussim, drank green tea, full dairy ect and dtd everyother day as encouraged by the RE. Well we got pregnant. We dtd the everyother day including day of positive opk and ovualtion day. We also used preseed, and my RE had prescribed estrace to take on my fertile days to help with the dryness.

Now for Ds2 I had just stopped breastfeeding ds1, i was taking 1000mg vitex, 200mg b6, b12, prenatal, fish oils, drinking green tea and grapefruit juice. I was also taking maca too. At the time i was trying to bring on ppaf as well and since I am such a worrier I requested provera to bring on my period so I could try and get pregnant. So while taking all of these vitamins everyday and than provera, I got my period and than toy soy 100mg days 3-7 and ovulated on day 28 and low and behold we got pregnant again. I must add that I also used the instead cup and left it in all night. We also dtd everyother day and day of positive opk and ovulation day.

Now as for diet, I eat super healthy and I always count my calories. I always stayed around 1500 but I ate more since I exercised for about five days a week. A typical day of food for me is as follows:
breakfast: coffee and green tea with a banana
lunch: two packet of oatmeal or two cups plus an apple, rice cakes or a luna bar.
Snack: always carrot sticks and sometimes more fruit
Dinner: chicken with whole grain brown rice, broccolli, whole grain pasta with tomato sauce, hamburgers, steaks and potatoes, salads with chicken, chickem fajitas and even oatmeal
Snacks: sugar free jello, skinny cow ice cream, choclate pudding, regualr ice cream and than sometimes oatmeal or fortified cereal with skim milk

I have to add that i never missed a day without oatmeal until now while swaying pink and I miss it dearly! I love oatmeal and I am really hoping that skipping it can only help.

I hope this was helpful and if i missed something, just ask.

[mummypink]

Hi,

I have two boys without swaying so thought I would share and sprinkle lots of blue dust for you all in exchange for some pink!

With both my boys I started drinking decaf tea/ coffee while ttc and throughout my pregnancies, I also took a pregnancy multivitamin and generally did my best to eat well - lots of fruit, veg etc. I have never been a big salt eater in terms of adding it to food but I remember with ds1 I was eating more crisps than I probably normally would, not sure why! I love chocolate and was into baking brownies at the time I was ttc ds one, I had got married the year before and had probably gained about 7 lbs from then to the point we were ttc. We dtd every day from af finishing through to a few days before my next af was due and fell pregnant the first month of trying with ds1.
With ds2 I was kind of trying to sway pink, although I hadn't read much about it other than some Shettles stuff, I didn't really know when I was ovulating but I thought we stopped about 3 days before to sway pink. It took 3 months to fall pregnant with ds2 using this method. My first little boy was only 8 months old, I had lost most of my pre pregnancy weight doing fairly intensive aerobic exercise but not all and again I had cut out caffeine and was taking the multivitamin. I was walking a lot too, going out and about with the pram.

I cut out alcohol with both two from the point we started ttc. My first son was conceived doing missionary with legs propped up afterwards, my second son was conceived doing spoons with a J&d afterwards.
Generally I am much more of a white meat / fish eater, I haven't ever really eaten a lot of red meat. I've always been on the slim side too, I'm generally a size 10 (UK) and was only a 12 for a short period of time after giving birth to my sons. So weight wise I'm not talking about huge gains and losses.

My husband generally takes a multivitamin with zinc which I have now learned may sway blue as well.

Good luck to you all, hope that helps! xx

[Mrs_P]

If it is of any help to anyone

DS1 i'd been really ill (ME) so was trying to regain myself eating really well, tons of vitamins. We'd only been together 3ish years so dtd was still new and exciting and regular lol. No idea of when it happened but we had a whoopsie once in the month and ds1 arrived 9 months later.

ds2 was taking prenatal vits, fell pg month before our proper sway dtd every few days was intending to try. Had lost a lot of weight just before pg as ds1 was about 1 before i started to loose the weight, was ideal size when caught with ds2.

ds3 was our 'failed' girl sway trying shettles. Lost a lot of weight just before catching (i was getting married in the december so wanted to fit into my dress, so about two dresses sizes in the run up) was relaxing and getting ready for wedding all hard work had been done and we caught first month of our try two weeks before our wedding. Was taking prenatal vits and eating well. Loved salt so didn't really manage to give this up but did give up my diet coke which i also really loved. DH gave up caffine and we attempted to dtd every day for fr but missed a few days so we had 4 days one off three days one off two days and stopped morning before i got my postive opk. DH wore briefs, hot baths and we dtd middle of night when he'd been asleep and was naturally really hot - made no difference DS3 is all boy

Positions with all three have been different but i always went straight to sleep no j&d with all three. Interestingly i have had little to no stress around the time all three boys were made and feel pg first try every time so no stressing over bfp etc either

Month does not affect me ds1 caught in april, ds2 in september ds3 in early december

Any questions happy to help please ask

[dreamingpink77]

Hi everyone, this thread seems great and I wanted to add my experience when I had my boy hoping that it might be of help. When we conceived ds, I had some coffees during the day, ate lots of biscuits and cakes. Ate take away foods like pizza or burgers during the week and the day we probably conceived had a hot dog just before ttc. We probably conceived the day of O and were bedding every other day. I never did exercise but was not overweight, infact I weighed about 52kilos, which is very good for my height. It was summer when we conceived so I'm sure I had cold showers rather than hot ones. Had hips propped for some time after ttc to avoid loosing sperm. Had loads of EWCM back than. All in all, I was eating quite some calories during the day a lots of sugar too.

Wish you all moms to be a healthy pregnancy with lots of blue dust! Me on the other hand....really really hope to add some pink in our family!

[dreamingpink77]

By the way...forgot to mention that I rarely ate veggies and took some summer fruits, like melons, watermelons. Also ate meat every Sunday and once or twice during the week, so actually I was probably swaying blue without even knowing! Did not take any milk but had occasional yoghurt!

[Paiper]

Well here is my story. I have two DS.

I never ate red meat. (This maybee helps ladies who struggle) I hardly ate potatoes.
I love salt and put a lot of it additionally to every meal. I wasn't overweight (BMI=22) but I was eating the whole day.
I always had breakfast (Weetabix cereals with whole milk), then at 10 am I had some bread with Philadelphia and tomatoes.
For lunch I mainly ate a salad with 2 slices of bread (full grain) and a vegetable soup. In the afternoon I ate fruits or choclate.
For dinner I had pasta or rice with fish/chicken/turkey and some vegetables.
I don't like coffee or diet sodas and was mainly drinking lots of tab water.
I took additional supplements for overall health and didn't know that they would sway blue.
I took fresh royal jelly (good for fertility and has a lot of B vitamines) and Aloe Vera Gel (contains about 280 different vitamines).

I didn't do any exercise, but I was walking about 1 kilometer (0,62 miles) per day and was using stairs (not the lift) whenever possible.
I had lots of EWCM. With DS1 we BD every day in the morning and with DS2 every 2-3 days and stopped 3 days before ovulation.

I hope this helps!

[Sihaya]

This thread and the corresponding one by girl moms are so eye-opening! I have two boys and had such a strongly blue-swaying diet and lifestyle with both of them without meaning to at all.

DS#1: I had been researching TTC for over a year and knew everything about how to best get pg (but didn't hear about swaying until after we conceived). We had been charting for months, had both gone off alcohol and caffeine, and were doing everything possible to give ourselves the best chances of conception. The month we got pregnant we weren't officially trying yet, but decided in the heat of the moment to risk it even though we knew ovulation was imminent. I ovulated the following day. We were DTD with protection every 5-6 days before that incident, so no abstinence or FR for DH. I also propped my hips for 20 minutes afterwards.

I was exercising moderately a few times a week in preparation for TTC. My diet was so boy-friendly it's not even funny. I has recently started the WAPF diet after struggling for years with what has been called 'disordered eating' (not quite an eating disorder, but not healthy at all either). So, when we conceived, I actually had an alarm on my phone set to go off every 2-3 hours to remind me to eat something and take my organic, food-based, 3x/day prenatal vitamins. As someone mentioned a little ways back in this thread, WAPF diet sways heavily blue: high calorie, high protein, high fats - but all healthy, high-salt, lots and lots of meat, no artificial anything, low in pesticides, and tons of dairy, but only full-fat.

In addition, I was working as a nanny for a woman who I did not get along with at all, but I loved the kids. I distinctly remember the feeling of every day being a challenge to overcome and the satisfaction of being up to the task. I think I have had high T most of my life, but it was definitely at a peak in the months before we conceived.

DS#2: I had two miscarriages between my boys and so even though I knew about swaying, I decided not to try it in favor of carrying a baby of any gender to term. When we conceived DS#2, we'd been trying for 3 months and again doing everything possible to improve the chances of conception, including having DH switch from briefs to boxer briefs. We DTD two days before O, the day of O, and the day after O. I propped my hips for 20 minutes afterwards.

We both cut out alcohol and caffeine again. I was eating a special diet for healing adrenal fatigue that included eating every two hours and was even healthier and more boy-swaying than the WAPF diet I ate with DS#1. Still eating tons of full-fat dairy, including raw milk. A part of the diet for adrenal fatigue was that in addition to heavily salting my foods and eating foods naturally high in sodium, I was taking a teaspoon of sea salt in a cup of water twice a day. I was also taking a TON of vitamin supplements in addition to my whole-foods prenatal.

As far as T levels, the project of healing my adrenal fatigue was another thing that I saw as a challenge to overcome and was very satisfying to work on and "win." With both boys, I was obsessive about charting and testing and couldn't let myself relax about it at all.

In addition to all of the factors I had that got us our boys, my DH is one of three boys. His only brother with children has a boy. His dad is the youngest of 7 children (GGGBBBG) and his only brother with children also has a boy.

[Lolly55]

Hoping I can help some want to be blue mums.

DS1 was conceived by BD every day or other day through O. We had just come out of christmas/new year and it was a lot of partying/food/alchohol etc. I was only walking for excercise, hubby was a little overweight and drinking and smoking. We always ate really well, big serves but generally home cooked - stir frys, casseroles, LOADS of BBQs and I NEVER miss a meal.

DS2 I swayed girl. I upped my diary (2-3 big glasses on milk a day), took all the supps for 3 months, tried to dtd frequently with a cut off but O'd early and ended up with 1 day cutt off. I was pretty much eating the same but trying to avoid the IG no-nos (tomatos, bananas etc). DH changed nothing but he was a bit sick at the time which I thought could help lower T levels.

I always jump and dump and with DS1 dtd doggie, DS2 missionary no O.

I dont believe position sways.

After my failed girl sway I think the key is def the LE diet which I will be trying this time for my sway. Boy mums my advice is to EAT as much as you can, I eat so much as I find it hard to put on weight am lucky in that I have a very quick metabolism. I dont eat much junk though, I eat a lot of really good food and drink min 2 litres water a day.