The more I read- the more overwhelmed I get- the less I want to try:(

[SugarSpice&EverythingNice]

After 3 boys I feel that it is very unlikely that I will end up with my girl anyway....
Sorry if I got anybody down...I really needed to let this off my chest.
XO

Just wanted to say that I feel this way also. I have 2 boys, and feel like I will NEVER get a girl, because I want one so bad, that its like impossible.

[CapricornAquarius]

DoulaMama, YOU CAN DO IT! I know how you feel, though....it is hard for me to keep up with the boy diet, because I am not a huge eater! Atomic is totally right- just be losing weight when you conceive and you have accomplished tricking your body into thinking you are in famine mode. I know I was eating, not starving myself, but just eating very little during the day. I would have a big dinner at around 6:30pm, and not eat again after that. I would drink some wine at night though. I never ate breakfast, and just little things during the day.

Just remember that it is ENTIRELY possible that you all will end up with your baby girls....you have to believe that just like I have to keep holding the belief that I will someday get pregnant and not only will it be a healthy, growing baby, but my boy. Give swaying your best shot that you can do, which may be doing the diet only 50%, but that is better than not at all, right!

Lots of pink dust to you girls!!!!

I agree with you, Im also not a big eater & I love my dairy, its so hard for me to give up my dairy, so I just wont. I have managed to put on some weight in the past month, havent weighed myself, but I can see & feel it, Ive always been a gym person love doing weight training.

So basically Im not being strict with my diet, I should be eating heaps of red meat, but I just cant, never been a big meat eater, Im lucky to eat red meat once to twice a week.

DoulaMama, Goodluck!

2 x girly girls start ttc for a blue bundle in August

[Roonarpia]

I struggled with the diet SOO SO SOO badly!!! I still had a latte everyday and would get calcium through other foods daily, I even went over the allowed amount sometimes but I still got my boy! I think the supplements really attributed to my success as well as eating breakfast, which I never did before. (I sometimes wouldn't eat until 2 in the afternoon) Eat breakfast for sure and like others have said just do what feels right. I had a banana or two every day as well.

[Roonarpia]

Hey, that's what we are here for, right! And you have been amazingly supportive of me and my hbac quest!! XOXO

Lola, you are going for an hbac? WOW so am I! Is there a thread that we can chat about this?????

[CapricornAquarius]

I struggled with the diet SOO SO SOO badly!!! I still had a latte everyday and would get calcium through other foods daily, I even went over the allowed amount sometimes but I still got my boy! I think the supplements really attributed to my success as well as eating breakfast, which I never did before. (I sometimes wouldn't eat until 2 in the afternoon) Eat breakfast for sure and like others have said just do what feels right. I had a banana or two every day as well.

Oh thats great to know, I feel relieved, and yes I am taking all the recommended supps.
Congratulations on your baby boy! Hope I get to say that once I ttc

[Sassy]

As much as I hate to say it, its kind of reassuring that I'm not the only one feeling pressured by the constraints of the girl diet! The info atomic has posted is priceless and takes a lot of the pressure off. So should DH just do his best to cut down on sodium, fats and red meat? He lost 15kgs last year and is p*ssed about having to gain weight on this diet lol!

[atomic sagebrush]

Don't make him gain weight. One of my main rules of swaying is, "If Daddy ain't happy, nobody's happy." I've seen several couples where the DH got so tired of swaying he pulled the plug on the baby idea all together!!!

If he cuts down on animal protein that's FANTASTIC. And if he does more that's great too but if not, don't sweat it.

[Sassy]

Ah, thats reassuring Atomic! He's cut down on meats (having no red meat and very little chicken/fish) and is happily on supps. In fact, he's on board with pretty much everything so when I tell him he doesn't have to 'gain' then he'll be over the moon and probably more committed to the other swaying factors! Thanks!

[atomic sagebrush]

Wonderful! Good luck!