Have you ever asked about your mother's diet/what/how she ate before conceiving you?

[Alicewonder]

Yeah sorry tried to reply don't know if it worked.
I tend to get tunnel vision and worry.

Maybe I should just focus on enjoying the summer with my family and accomplishing things in our home like the playroom and look at this in the fall hopefully there's enough time for us.

Then in worrying that this might hurt my Pink sway?
Oh brother

[atomic sagebrush]

I think you asked a similar question in a diff. thread and I replied there.

[wonder woman73]

My mom told me that she wasn't trying to get pregnant. She was working for Weight Watchers and losing weight. She was also using spermacide.

[hotdogz&boyz]

I dunno. The only one I could make an educated guess on is my youngest brother. Despite being a major oops, I think her lifestyle was swaying blue. She forgot the diaphragm and said she knew immediately that they would get preggo because she knew her cycle and the last time they had sex was the last "safe day" without needing it (telling me approx frequency). She had recently started a job as a health professional (about a year in) and was teaching classes on aerobics and weight-training 4-5 days a week. She was also eating healthy and trying to really change the eating habits of the family to more veggies and fruits. My moms general personality is a little bit Martha and I think having two young kids on schedules (we were 5.5 and 3 when she got pregnant) probably made her more-so Martha-like.

I know I was the result of casual NTNP about a year after they got married. My mom mentioned once that she is pretty sure I was conceived on vacation. She was pretty trim back then and was young (22). My middle brother was conceived the month before they decided to try for him. She never started that cycle and my dad joked that he was "just that good." But I don't know details about diet or exercise when she conceived us two. I'd have to ask.

Strangely enough, both of her sisters had all boys. And her two brothers had four boys and one girl between them. (I only have one female cousin on that side, out of 10, not including us three). So there was something going on there!! (And oddly enough, the female cousin was born just two months before I was). But her sisters are the epitome of Martha's. So not that shocking, I suppose.

[sbowman]

My mom was struggling with PCOS and infertility, not ovulating, etc. She was trying to lose weight to help with that. Her doctor put her on birth control for six months and said it would help regulate things, then took her off. Eight months later she finally got pregnant, though she had been told it was very unlikely to happen. She couldn't tell me much about her diet, but as a kid I remember her eating weird things like cheese toast for dinner (and nothing else) and drinking boatloads of soda. She never exercised.


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[Mulberry Smurf]

My mum was a vegetarian and had been following a plan for how to conceive so was on folic acid. My dad only has one tube though so potentially why they had me (only daughter no sons) xx

[Mulberry Smurf]

My mums mum regularly took cranberry and aspirin xx

[dreaminginblue]

My mother was a scant eater and chose salads and sandwiches over our dinners. She was never a big eater unless it was chocolate. I'm one of 6 girls. I'm not sure about the boys - though my older brother would've been conceived when she was living at home. With my little brother, SD was taking her out alot for drinks and curries and we had roast dinners most Sundays at a pub and she put on weight for first without being pregnant. Makes sense that he was a boy. Gosh GD has changed the way I view other mothers

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[kitkat18]

My mum skips breakfast only eats two meals a day little to no snacking and not many calories typical le diet p.s she loves salt and covers food with it and swills diet coke she only had me

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[JEWELLE11]

My mom was at her lowest weight ever when she conceived me (110lbs) with my brother she had gained like 15 pounds. My third brother she was at her heaviest 30lbs over.... She also douched a lot with me ...