How we got our boys!

[LilithWiser1979]

I had a perfect (except for Shettles timing) boy sway and had no idea. I was Crossfitting, which means high intensity weight training, cardio and anaerobic exercises performed at an aerobic pace. The crossfit endorsed diet is paleo, which is lean meats (hell, even some fatty ones,) vegetables, fruits, nuts and seeds. No sugar, no wheat, corn, or potatoes. I would highly recommend all boy swayers join a crossfit gym. You'll get all the support in the world for a boy sway without ever having to tell anyone you're swaying!

Also, my salt intake was off the charts. I not only salted all my food while cooking, I salted each individual bite after that. I ate a banana every morning for breakfast, lots of eggs and high protein diet. Tons of EWCM, no jump and dump, put in a Diva cup after BD, BD every day until 2 1/2 days before O, then DTD twice that day (on 2 1/2 days before O,) only took a prenatal for supps. I REALLY wanted a girl too! Hope my mistakes can help someone else!

[LilithWiser1979]

Oh, also no alcohol, caffeine every morning, then went wine tasting on implantation weekend (supposedly alcohol consumption helps implantation?) Have no idea what moon and biorhthyms were at the time, but I know Chinese gender said girl...HA!

[atomic sagebrush]

^^^True dat! With my DS 3 I may as well have been doing a boy sway with my diet and lifestyle, but that Chinese Gender Predictor said girl so I thought I was in like Flynn. Ha!

[wannagirl21]

Hi, I have two boy's thought I would share how I got them I sway'ed DS1 and didn't know It I justwanted to get pregnant soon so dtd alot and right on O day and lifted legs for 5 min. Diet was boy friendly I love food and big breakfast person and snacked also ate meat almost everyday. DS2 I was still breastfeeding DS1 but it wasn't enough where it was keeping my cycle away and I still had a boy friendly diet tons of meat, calories, snacking, and breakfast, we dtd 1 day priar to O and I tryed a J&D with him and still resulted in a boy. I wasn't big coffee drinker's with them only fraps from starbucks and never drank pop or aspartame products.

[2lovelyboys]

After reading all these I'm not surprised I have two little men!!!

I worked in a male dominated competitive environment (sports coach), constantly striving for results.
Can have a lot of CM around ovulation.

DS1 - we didn't sway, unexpected but welcomed pregnancy. We DTD New Year's Eve, lots of alcohol involved various positions, can't remember about O.
I never ate breakfast, drank lots of water, tea and diet coke. I would eat a sandwich for lunch, cheese, cheese and ham, chicken, all on wholemeal bread also loved them with mayo! Dinner would be meat, vegetables ( two or three different types) and potatoes, would have red meat 1-2 times a week (DH loved lasagne). I never added salt to my cooking but would to my food. Loved takeaway pizza. If I were hungry between meals then I would have some fruit, love bananas. I cooked all home meals, used whole meal everything, no sweeteners, olive oil for cooking. My weight remained constant.

Gave up caffeine after DS1 arrived.

DS2 failed girl sway. Very rough sway, I took the girl supplements, cranberry, calcium, magnesium,saw palmetto, vitex, baby aspirin. No antihistamines to dry CM, so that was still present, didn't change diet at all so was still protein, calorie and nutrient dense, still drank wine regularly. We were actively trying to fall pregnant, the month I conceived we DTD up to and through Ovulation, no O, position was spoons (sorry tmi).

Hope all this helps

[hopingforsaskia]

I was such a total accidental boy swayer...

With ds1, I had come off work for about 10 weeks. I was eating anything and everything all day and into the night. I usually stayed fairly stable with my weight but with being at home all day and eating all the time I put on a little weight - maybe only a few kgs. We dtd twice a few days apart right around ovulation and every few days before that. I took pre natals etc cos I was planning.

With ds2 I had dieted to lose all the baby weight, managed to get 30kgs off and when I got to goal weight I resumed my normal way of eating. Full meat/fat/salt/sugar anything and everything.. And put on 6kgs (slowly). That's when I started eating herbal super foods and vitamins etc. then I fell pregnant with a stuffed up frequent release.. Panicked and dtd 7 days in a row, then missed 2 days and had 2 more attempts about 12 hours apart.

This time I have done soooooo much different.. So fxd this is my girl...

[2lovelyboys]

Hi ladies, forgot to say in my previous post that I always took multivitamins and Cod Liver Oil capsules daily

[trifecta]

I didn't sway on purpose but I got two boys with these habits:

-High-nutrient diet of peanut, almond or cashew butter on ry-krisps, vegetable juice, hard-boiled eggs, lots of fruit (including bananas and a grapefruit every day), full-fat yogurt with milled flax seed, salads of avocado, black beans, salsa, and hot sauce, chicken salad and salmon salad, lots of vegetables (often sweet potatoes with butter and leafy greens), tomatoes with salt, and 6 oz of meat/chicken/fish at most dinners, wine and light beer, coffee, green tea, prenatals, baby aspirin, fish oil, vitamin c w/cranberry (I know now it sways pink but I was taking it for urinary health at the time) and I also sometimes ate a little pure rock salt (I have very low blood pressure).

-Body weight at conception: I'm 5'5" and weighed 135 lbs with DS1, 123 lbs with DS 2

-With both did about an hour of walking every day, an hour of cardio most days, lifted weights 3x per week, took abs classes

-Conceived about 5 days before ovulation w/DS1 (yes, it can happen) and at ovulation w/DS2

-DH took vitamins and wore boxer shorts

At the time I was just trying to be healthy but now I know my lifestyle was a boy sway!

[radicalhope]

Hey,
I had two boys without swaying. I concieved both of them on my ovulation day in the winter. It was cold (and dry) so we had our heat on. My diet included salty food, baked french fries and chicken bites, doritos, potato chips, grilled cheese (with tomato), ranch, red meat, potatoes, tomatoes, very little milk (I am lactose intolerant), soy milk, bananas, orange and apple juice,occasional coffee with sugar, Dr. Pepper, and chocolate. I usually ate breakfast, especially on the weekends which was pancakes, bacon, biscuits, eggs ect. I am normal weight and althought my diet wasnt the healthiest I did not eat alot. We had late dinners because of my job. I was active but did not exercise regularly. I am a night owl and not a morning person. I took prenatal pills before and while I tried to conceive. I also took Benadryl for allergies. I had lots of CVM and always O'd when BD. With our first son we BD three times one day before, on, and after my O date. I don't think I had chance to conceive a girl! Im so glad I found this site to help me TTC a girl. Hope my post helos someone!

[mec06]

Just thought I'd add my 'unaware boy sway' to the thread. lol.
We conceived our son after I began to slowly gain weight after having just lost 35kg... I tend to go on crazy strict diets for months and then come off them and go crazy for about a month of eating whatever I want (DS was conceived during my crazy eating month) I would eat lots of food, constant snacking, mostly take-out (cheeseburgers), foods HIGH in salt and lots of added salt, ALWAYS ALWAYS ate breakfast and I would have tomatoes in just about every meal, rarely ever any dairy except cheese - lots of fatty cheese. Caffeine only from soft drink, ate huge amounts of fruit and veges, LOTS of bananas.
It was also a REALLY stressful time for me and I wasn't sleeping a lot and was drinking huge amounts.
DH is a big junk food eater, lots of bananas, pasta. From memory at the time he was also eating ALOT of tuna.