♥ May 2011 Blue Cheer Squad Thread ♥

[begonia]

Hi ladies!

FX for you hope.ful! A 1st time BFP would be great for you and great for our group b/c we need a BFP to celebrate :-)

Lola thanks for the advice from Atomic re: EWCM before O; I thought I remembered reading the same thing so now I'm sure of it. It's crazy. I had some more this am but am thinking it might be gone. But still no +OPK. I was expecting to O Thursday before all the crazy EWCM showed up, then I thought I'd O early ... but now I'm thinking maybe it won't be early after all! My TTC plan is the O-2 and O day plan though so I should be able to catch some good EWCM with the O-2 attempt. When we do attempt. September feels forever away. And it might even be October before we try.

Spicy I'm super bummed for you. FX the next attempt is it for you! Iluv when is yours? And yours, Princess?

TTC5 how is your daughter doing? I was just thinking about that for some reason and hoping all is well with her now.

I want someone to get a BFP!!!! And I want Skrimpy to have her baby girl and show us pictures :-) And I want a pony. Since I'm just listing it all right now ;-)

[iluvmyman]

Start w/ your post on pg 48. OK, here's Atomic's sticky on timing that I'll review and you can too if you get a chance and we'll touch base.
http://genderdreaming.com/forum/show...nd-girl-Part-1

Ready......GO!

[iluvmyman]

Hi ladies! My TTC plan is the O-2 and O day plan though so I should be able to catch some good EWCM with the O-2 attempt. When we do attempt. September feels forever away. And it might even be October before we try.

Spicy I'm super bummed for you. FX the next attempt is it for you! Iluv when is yours? And yours, Princess?

I want someone to get a BFP!!!! And I want Skrimpy to have her baby girl and show us pictures :-) And I want a pony. Since I'm just listing it all right now ;-)

Me and Princessp are debating timing right now and I need to read Atomic's post just to be clear re: DTD on CD 13 or CD14 if you are obviously on a 28 day cycle. MFC, answered this but now I'm confused...again and need to make sure....again. At this point I will be doing protected BD in the am tomorrow (CD8) Then again on Sunday the 22nd (CD12) & again on Tues. the 24th (CD14) The debate is DTD on CD11 & CD13 or CD12 & CD14. Begonia, I assume we do the full EW's Caffeine etc. on both boy attempts, right?

You just need to pipe it and do this with me this month, Begonia. Come on, you know you want to!! We seriously need a BFP this month and I, Iluvman, will volunteer for a BFP this month. That's right, I will sacrifice myself on the sword or pregnancy......for you!

[iluvmyman]

[QUOTE=begonia;35039]Hi ladies!
Lola thanks for the advice from Atomic re: EWCM before O; I thought I remembered reading the same thing so now I'm sure of it. It's crazy. I had some more this am but am thinking it might be gone.

I think I just read that stuff here: http://genderdreaming.com/forum/show...ut-when-to-dtd

Post#3 by Atomic

[iluvmyman]

OK, here is a link when I was talking to Atomic about this http://genderdreaming.com/forum/show...Cut-offs/page2
I think either way on the CD's 13 or 14 we'll be OK.

[begonia]

Iluv, your selflessness knows no boundaries. Thank you for being so bold as to volunteer to be a BFP for our group this month :-) LOL! I hope you are!!! If you know you O CD14, I would DTD (the whole shebang, with EW's, caffeine and such) on CD12 and CD14. But I do agree, I think either way 11/13 or 12/14 you're in great shape for TTC boy. Hooray for some attempts coming up soon!

I would LOVE to join in this month! But DH is a firm no on that. I try to let him think he has some weight in the decision so ... ;-) We'll wait. But now I'm wondering if I did in fact miss my O? All that EWCM is gone this am, and still no +OPK! Going to keep testing til CD14 (Friday) because in a normal cycle I usually get a +OPK on the pm of CD13. So ... maybe it is still to come? But my OPK's were getting darker and darker but not +, and then this morning it was lighter! So I'm actually glad we aren't ttc this month b/c I'd have no clue what to do.

[SpicyTunaSushi]

I agree- no BFPs this month? How many of us are active ttc? I am 13 dpo bfn and temps are dropping. The good news is that my LP is a good length. When I was bfing it was 7 days. It will come ladies! I am still debating about dtd eod. I don't want to miss it! I only have 4 more shots!

[SpicyTunaSushi]

I think dtd the evening of the OPK makes sense, to make sure the sperm are prepared for the eggs release. They go to sleep in the fallopian tubes and are woken by a chemical messenger when the egg releases. If you wait until the next day- you may not give them enough time to make it up the tubes.

[SpicyTunaSushi]

Spicy, that is the hard thing about timing....if you are unpredictable (like I am), sometimes you just gotta give it your best guess as to when you might be at 0-2....what I have done before, and plan to do in the future, is when my opk is just darn near + but not a true positive (I get several days of fade-ins), then we dtd, with the hopes that late the next day, it is truly +, meaning then we dtd the following day, which would likely be O day.

Sometimes it is really hard to predict, which is why the SMEP/Deanna's plan works very well. It may not necessarily be optimum boy sway timing, but I don't think the timing matters as much as the way your body is when you have sperm meet egg. But, that is up to everyone's individual belief about it.....many gals on our old thread (who now have baby boys, mind you), just dtd once on O day, and some dtd two days in a row right around O (like day before and day of, or day of O and day after even), and some dtd every day for like 3 days. In fact, just to make you feel better....and I know I've written this before, so sorry if I'm repeating....but a few of us got obsessed with getting the timing down, particularly the unpredictable O girls. We checked out FF charts with "pregnant with boy" in the keywords, and it appeared that there was ALL sorts of dtd sequences, but one thing they all had in common was dtd on O day for sure. Most of them, in fact, dtd two days in a row, O-1 and O day. I think it is best to try to have a 48 hour gap, so I would *try* to do that if you can, but the SMEP plan gets people pregnant, that is for sure, so not a bad timing sequence to follow.

http://www.pregnancyloss.info/sperm_meets_egg_plan.htm

Of course, I am a bit more laid back about the timing....I just want to get pregnant, and since I'm 35, don't want to mess around with it too much. I have faith that if I do the diet and supps solidly for 6 weeks and get pg, that I have a better chance at a son than a daughter....but also I don't care if I get another girl at this point, because it ain't as easy for me as it used to be!

Absolutely. I am only 26, so age is not an issue, but I only have 4 more cycles to try, then we have to stop because of job situations. Very few sperm make it to the end, and if you dtd only once, very few might make it. But if you have VERY fertile ewcm, then dtd twice seems to cover you. I am, in the end, not going to worry too much about timing either. Just give it my best shot!

I have seen the FF boy charts too- and they basically show people trying a lot around O time. Seems to make sense.

[LolaInLove]

Me and Princessp are debating timing right now and I need to read Atomic's post just to be clear re: DTD on CD 13 or CD14 if you are obviously on a 28 day cycle. MFC, answered this but now I'm confused...again and need to make sure....again. At this point I will be doing protected BD in the am tomorrow (CD8) Then again on Sunday the 22nd (CD12) & again on Tues. the 24th (CD14) The debate is DTD on CD11 & CD13 or CD12 & CD14. Begonia, I assume we do the full EW's Caffeine etc. on both boy attempts, right?


You just need to pipe it and do this with me this month, Begonia. Come on, you know you want to!! We seriously need a BFP this month and I, Iluvman, will volunteer for a BFP this month. That's right, I will sacrifice myself on the sword or pregnancy......for you!

Here is the thing....you definitely want to take opks to track your ovulation....do NOT just go by the days CD13 and 14, assuming you will O then! Honestly, if I were you guys, I would take the opks and when they look almost positive, go for it. Or, if you have been charting and tracking and your O is pretty consistent *even* with the supps and diet thrown in the mix, then dtd around cd11 or 12. Then, when your opk turns definitely positive, just dtd about 12-18 hours after that. You will be in the zone then. And yes, you want to do the full nine yards each time, with Dh having some caffeine and you doing ew and whatever else you choose. I would for sure have you and DH take a mucus-thinner, like Mucinex or Robitussin, about an hour before your attempts also.

Like Princess said, she conceived her boy dtd 2 days in a row....and Atomic said she's conceived her boys with frequent bding also, in about every pattern possible.....just goes to show how little timing and abstinence has to do with it. Don't stress about it too much....even if you end up dtd 24 hours apart because your first attempt was say, on CD12, and then your opk suddenly turns + later that day, just go for it and don't worry about it. I know we all want to give this our best shot, but do remember that even if you just loosely eat the diet, take a few supps, and use preseed or ew, you are way upping your odds of your dice turning up blue! Believe me, I want a son more than anything, but the reality is that even if I try to make everything just perfect and do every little swaying thing there is, I still may end up with a girl, or may end up never getting pregnant at all. That little personal rant being said, I say don't worry about the timing and frequency as much. Your DH is still going to make millions of sperm after 24 hours, and if your body is primed to be more boy-friendly from diet and supps, then you are in good shape!