Survey!

[queen-of-harts]

I can see how i have been blessed with 6 boys,i love diary like ice cream,yogurt and cheese but i eat big amounts when i do.I just have a healthy appetite and never miss a meal lol.We eat alot of processed foods sometimes and im big on sweets.Dh also has a ph of 9 and mine is an 8 i think and i get ewcm that can stretch 18 inches i swear yuck!

[nicnee1976]

With DS1, my diet was not healthy, lots of processed food, working shifts and eating rubbish, red meat, minimal calcium, alcohol, caffiene. Not sure when we DTD in relation to O, because my cycle was thrown out by a suspected early m/c the month before.
DS2 was conceived just after Xmas, after a time of over indulgence and on a alcohol fuelled night. I think we DTD on the day of O or the day before O and we had not DTD for several days beforehand. It was definitely a one-off BD!! DS2 was a surprise baby.
DS3 was also a surprise, conceived just after we had been on holiday and over indulged. We DTD the day before O, again alcohol fuelled and again a one-off BD!!
I think I have a high testosterone level anyway, as I match all the symptoms of that.

[Kazz2011]

Definitely. With all my boys I ate breakfast in the morning, probably had a bit too much salty foods, fatty foods and never did any exercise etc.... I am hoping to turn that around soon and it more "girly" friendly foods, ions, sallt rock lamps etc.....

[boymom]

huge lover of salt and I have boys, not much dairy, especially not milk. Not much red meat, probably too many calories though, love bread & cheese, and as I mentioned before anything with salt.

[suregena]

My first two pregnancies ended in early (7 weeks and 6 weeks) miscarriages. I was working in a high-stress job (neonatal unit... and I juggled about 3 different jobs. I'm sure being around all of those incredibly vulnerable babies didn't help me, but it was also physically demanding, I worked different hours every week that varied widely as I worked on a rota, I travelled via public transport and it took me nearly 2 hours to get to work one way, etcetera.)

This began to get to me, so despite my love of my job, I found a job at a hospital more near to me that was no-frill, sit at a desk, dull, and so forth, in hopes that it would help a pregnancy stick (I always got pregnant first month trying, it was just keeping a pregnancy that was the problem which I added up to stress.)

I changed jobs just after my second miscarriage... which happened the end of March 2009. I started my new job April 6th. The end of April (still didn't have my period back...) we went on vacation to Bruges, Belgium for a long weekend. I don't drink alcohol... but they had some fruity beers there that I DID drink a lot of. It was an amazing, relaxing, wonderful weekend. Completely destressed. Eating amazing, fatty foods, drinking amazing coffee, fruity beers, etcetera. I had some spotting during that trip... which I thought was my cycle returning, but it stopped after a day...

We were not actively trying again yet. A few weeks later (my cycle still not returning and me getting very annoyed) we went to visit a friend in Liverpool. I was eating like A PIG but didn't think anything of it. I woke up the next morning feeling very nauseated. I called in sick to work. I laid there thinking, "I can't believe I have a stomach bug. When am I going to get my period back?!?" Suddenly I put those two thoughts together and thought, "...OH." and used my last pregnancy test I had and took it. HELLO, positive! It all made sense!

Heh. Thanks, Bruges.. for my little boy!

Moral of the story: go on vacation to Bruges, Belgium--and you'll eat delicious food, drink delicious beer , and probably get pregnant with a boy...

[daisyfay311]

I want to add that my MIL had all boys and I know it really bothered her, she always wanted a girl and nearly died of happiness when my dd was born. But now I see why. She drinks tons of stuff with lemon, eats gobs of fruit, always has a big breakfast, loves salty snacks like popcorn...and judging from her personality, I am guessing she has a lot of testosterone.

[ashkash]

Yep. We actively did Shettles for our girl, and it worked. Looking back, we unknowingly did the Shettles boy method when we conceived DS1 & DS2. We had to use fertility meds to conceive #4 (follistim), and our RE's instructions were in line with Shettles boy method. Baby #4 is all boy!

So I would say the Shettles method worked quite well for us. That said, I don't think we'll ttc again without going HT, because I want to be certain we have a girl.

[fivebabies]

Yes! 100%. I only got my 1 DD from swaying. My lifestyle is very boy friendly.

[mariposa]

Totally sense. When I conceived my DS I was eating a lot. Have put like 4 kg over my normal weight. Have breakfast every day orange juice, milk and cereals. Doing moderate exercise , and DTD every 2 days. Hips propped like half an hour after the attempts.

[fish2012]

yes i ate lots of protien did lots of exercise, my dh played rugby and i'm a bit of a stress head and a snacker ;-0 wasn't really overweight but weighed less whne i conceived this time