How we got our boys!

[Vivi]

Great thread!! With DS1 I had gained weight, 4-5 kg because I had been quitting smoking 3 months before conceiving (February). I love food and ate a lot; breakfast, lunch, dinner and a lot of snacking in between. I tried to eat healthy but also ate a lot of fatty, salty food and chocolate. I always drink a lot of milk and water, sometimes sodas but never had coffee. We DTD every other day through O. I worked out at the gym or did take long walks 3-4 times a week. I got PG with DS2 (not planed right after I stopped BF DS1 in July) weighting even more than before + 5-6 kg, eating like before and doing the same amount of exercise and BD through O. I wish I had known about swaying before because DH doesn't want anymore children and I have been dreaming of a daughter all my life. Hopefully he changes his mind in a couple of years!

[2bnaday]

With both of my boys I was eating every 2-3 hours. If I was eating "healthy", then it was essentially paleo - lots of meat, olive oil, and "superfood" type fruit and veg (spinach, broccoli, blueberries) and also any grains were always whole wheat and often protein/vitamin fortified. If I was having "cheat" foods, then it was pizza (lots of meat toppings like bacon and pepperoni), mexican food (carne asada burritos, rice and beans, lots of chips and cheese dip), bacon cheeseburgers and fries, etc. Both were conceived around the winter holidays so having lots of extra treats and drinks and gaining a few extra pounds...not exercising at all.

I had zero artificial sweeteners and zero caffeine, unless it was diet cola in a cocktail. Drank red wine primarily. I was taking prenatal vitamins with DHA, plus extra fish oil caplets, calcium, vit d, vit c.

With my second boy I was still breastfeeding and he was like a 4-5 day cut-off. First DS was right at O.

[LUVBEBI]

I have three boys and did not sway (i had no clue about swaying). I used to eat inthe morning toast bread with butter, jam or philadelphia cheese. One cup of coffee with sugar and cream.
Lunch and dinner, lots of meats, salty foods, I love pickles, olives, lots of feta cheese, I love salty foods. I used to eat a lot of salad with tomoatoes and cucumbers. I love to eat deserts also. I do not drink any sodas but mostly water and coffee. Eat lots of potatoes and bananas. Lots of eggs in my cooking. I use oilive oil in everything.
I took prenatal vitamins from nature made. No excersise at all, if running around kids counts in excercise.
I always had my boys on the 14th day oof my cycle of 28 days. It only took one time to get pregnant. I was under a lot of stress all the times I conceived my boys.

[VioletDream]

I have a boy. I realise I was very much eating a boy diet.

I am very slim naturally.

When my son was conceived I was eating lots of red meat, salty foods. I LOVE salty chips, steak, red meat, bacon, gammon.

I was eating tonnes of crisps and drinking full fat coke. Never eat chocolate.

[Luisa]

Hiya, thought I would add to this!

I am a total boy mum but DS1 could have been a girl! When I conceived DS1 I was veggie and was on the mini pill and he was a whoopsie baby! But I had gained a bit of weight (from being too thin to average over a couple of months), I ate loads of fortified breakfast cereal, took vitamins, had loads of sex over the space of a few days. Love salt and had loads of EWCM. I don't remember exactly what I was eating as it was a while back now!

DS2- absolute classic boy sway. I had deliberately gained weight again to TTC, slowed down my cardio to 3x per week, started eating meat (had eaten a burger that night!) given up aspartame, was TTC, loads of EWCM. Sex every 3 days through O, used pre-seed, cereal for breakfast and multi-vitamins. No wonder!

[Two of a Kind]

Very interesting! With my first DD1 I was working full time as a midwife so crazy shift work, skipping meals, had lost a lot of weight for my wedding just prior to conception. I was generally not getting a lot of fruit, veg etc. When I conceived DS1 I had recently gained weight, & I was eating very regular as a stay at home mum, breakfast was cereal with fruit( usually a banana or two!!) lunch was tinned tuna/ or ham salad with boiled eggs & a big salad, dinner was red meat/fish/chicken with potatoes/ pasta & lots of veg. i also use a lot salt/ olive oil in cooking. regular all day snacks were Youghurt, nuts, fruit, so boy friendly. Weekend dinners were usually meat heavy pizzas & salty snacks. I followed the same exact eating pattern when I conceived DS2. I knew nothing about swaying for any of my children. Can't believe how girl/ boy friendly my diets were.

[milliemolly]

Hi all , I really hope this helps : ) here is an insight into my lifestyle when I conceived my boys : ) Thanks again for all your imput into the thread on how you coneived yiur girls .Thank you !

Baba 1 - I was on a diet over a month before I conceived and a month afterwards .Loosing 2 stone .
I ate three meals a day , breakfast, lunch and tea and snacked three times a day inbetween my three meals. This was religiously , the same time every day without a doubt .... I remember.....because I was starving : ) . I had either brown toast/ wheat cereal or porridge for breakfast . Lunch was always brown bread and at that time I was trying out gluten free bread so I had one protein either cheese/ham with salad . Tea consisted off either two small potaotes , veg and a protein ....either salmon, egg, chicken or ham . Sometimes I would have brown rice instead of the potatoe or brown bread ........My snacks inbetween were always fruit ......... which was either a bannana, orange, grapes , apple or strawberries .
I was using opks .....First time conceiving , so just wanted to get pregnant.... so as soon as I seen a line on the opks ( not meaning it was darker) we bedded as much as we could .It was definitely from cycle day 11 onwards .....Which was definitely well before ov and during it.
Dh - was on a diet also .We both did no exercise , but just the odd walk when we could fit it in.

Baba2- On the same diet also .....exactly the same .... ooopsie baby , but only bedded early morn cd 12,eve - 16, 17 of a 27 day cycle . I know this , because I have it all documented : ) Also in my notes I had sorry tmi .... brown watery cm on day 13 and 14 of that cycle.....never ever had I anything like that mid cycle .My cycles were between 27 and 29 days .

Hope this helps in anyways. I didnt know you could sway when I conceived both but looking at my diet I think it sways boy. Just trying to grasp how the 2nd baba was conceived, in terms of when I ovulated....im finding it difficult to know when to dtd to concieive a girlie as both my boys as you can see where concieved around and possibly after o.
Wishing you all the best girls . Feel free to ask me anything at all. : )

[milliemolly]

Also meant to say , I never drank any fizzy drinks .Had the odd diet coke here and there . Drank a lot of tea no coffee , dont like it so it was never .Always had low fat butter, milk and cheese . Instead of a piece of fruit during the day I had a diet yoghurt : )
My veg consisted of .... carrots , broc , mushrooms, onions sweetcorn . Didnt like anything else x

[milliemolly]

Hi all , I really hope this helps : ) here is an insight into my lifestyle when I conceived my boys : ) Thanks again for all your imput into the thread on how you coneived yiur girls .Thank you !

Baba 1 - I was on a diet over a month before I conceived and a month afterwards .Loosing 2 stone .
I ate three meals a day , breakfast, lunch and tea and snacked three times a day inbetween my three meals. This was religiously , the same time every day without a doubt .... I remember.....because I was starving : ) . I had either brown toast/ wheat cereal or porridge for breakfast . Lunch was always brown bread and at that time I was trying out gluten free bread so I had one protein either cheese/ham with salad . Tea consisted off either two small potaotes , veg and a protein ....either salmon, egg, chicken or ham . Sometimes I would have brown rice instead of the potatoe or brown bread ........My snacks inbetween were always fruit ......... which was either a bannana, orange, grapes , apple or strawberries .
I was using opks .....First time conceiving , so just wanted to get pregnant.... so as soon as I seen a line on the opks ( not meaning it was darker) we bedded as much as we could .It was definitely from cycle day 11 onwards .....Which was definitely well before ov and during it.
Dh - was on a diet also .We both did no exerise , but just the odd walk when we could fit it in.

Baba2- On the same diet also .....exactly the same .... ooopsie baby , but only bedded early morn cd 12,eve - 16, 17 of a 27 day cycle . I know this , because I have it all documented : ) Also in my notes I had sorry tmi .... brown watery cm on day 13 and 14 of that cycle.....never ever had I anything like that mid cycle .My cycles were between 27 and 29 days .

Hope this helps in anyways. I didnt know you could sway when I conceived both but looking at my diet I think it sways boy. Just trying to grasp how the 2nd baba was conceived, in terms of when I ovulated....im finding it difficult to know when to dtd to concieive a girlie as both my boys as you can see where concieved around and possibly after o.
Wishing you all the best girls . Feel free to ask me anything at all. : )

[milliemolly]

Apologies I posted that twice: ((