What Sway Factors Were You (Unknowingly) Doing When You Conceived Your Boys?

[WantingPink]

I was wondering what boy sway factors you all were doing (probably unknowingly) when you ladies got your boys? Did you have any of the girl sway factors?

For me I DTD day before and/or on O, full moon, was gaining weight for about 2 months before, no dairy lots of sodium, lots of EWCM, and I tend to be a little on the testosterone side of things. I don't think I did any of the girl sway factors !! No wonder I have two wonderful boys !!

[xnicolax]

Not with DS4 because he is the result of a girl sway, but my diet is boy friendly, lots of sodium, I love spices etc. I dont know about timing (no 4 is the only one we have tried for) and I always have loads of ewcm. And unknown to me at the time, I have polycystic ovaries so probably have high testosterone levels, I find out on monday what they are.

[3boys]

I had such a boy friendly diet that it is no wonder I conceived boys. The Salt intake was out of this world (I since know this a I typed in my 'normal' diet into Fitday and I was ashamed at the amount of Salt.)

Lots of potato and lots of easy 'oven food' and takeaways. I am very skinny so I get away with such a horrible diet.

I didn't exercise but I did walk to do the school/nursery run four times a day.

Also I bed EVERY day for all three boys!

[Belle]

It was a long time ago but I use to eat chocolate and I am anaemic so I was forcing myself to eat beef a couple of times a week. Other than that I pretty much fit the girl criteria. I have 2 boys who I thank god I have Oh sorry I almost forgot we dtd during o so I want to stay away from that

[swish]

My diet was quite boy friendly ( potatoes, avocados, loads of tomato, no milk at all, generally quite healthy) but not a lot of salt really and vegetarian for first DS. I didn't put on weight, I don't change weight at all. I did swim ALOT. I dtd through o and used steroid creams for my eczema right before dtd. So definately quite a few sway boy factors! Also quite stressed for first DS but not at all fir second DS.

[Coccinelle33]

all my boys were conceived on a full moon.

with my first 2 boys (didn't know about swaying)-

i did not swaying.

i love salt!!! i ate out sometimes but added salt to everything. lot's of frozen foods and soups. but i also ate pretty healthy with lots of fruit and veggies. i really don't like milk. love potatoes and tomatoes! every morning would eat orange juice and a whole wheat bagel and cream cheese or cereal. i hate eggs,

i never drank coffee, soda, or did any real drinking.

never used fake sugar until i tried for my last which was a boy.

i was taking robitussin with both of them. the first time because i was sick and the second for cm.

i also drank green tea and pineapple juice for #2.

with my last 2 boys who i was swaying pink for-

i was doing the girl diet and supplements but i wasn't losing weight. i stayed the same weight with all my boys.

lots of fertile cm with them all

the things i was doing that we girly-

im a vegetarian

lots of bd for #1 and #2

with #3 and #4 i was on the girl diet and supplements.

[kaseybaby]

I had no idea about swaying when I had DS, but I pretty much had a classic boy sway without knowing it.

I had a miscarriage in January, and had complications from it. So I could not BD nor did I ovulate for 2 months. The day after the bleeding stopped my DH and I BD for the first time. We had decided to hold of TTC for a few months to give my body a chance to recoup, but little did I know DS wanted to be born and I ovulated the day after.

I was eating a TON of banana's and red meat. I loved salt. I was drinking alcohol every other day, not heavily but a beer or a glass of wine. The one strange thing is I had pretty much no EWCM at all, so I did not think I was ovulating. And DS was conceived on the night of a full moon on a male gender sign. Basically if I had a girl after knowing what I know now, it would have been a miracle, lol.

[Out of the Blue]

DS#1:• Vegetarian diet w/fair amount of dairy & soy (was still eating like a “junk food” vegetarian)
• Pre Natals and Cal-Mag supps
• Spenda & lots of Aspertame like it was going out of style (chewed TONS of gum & was in a lot of my drinks)
• 2 cups of coffee per day and always drinking green tea
• A TON of work stress and long hours
• No house plants (I accidently kill them and I feel too sad to buy any more as they’ll most likely perish) and long hrs. staring at a PC
• Around a full moon (just looked it up yesterday as I was curious)
• Instead cup w/hips propped up for a long time
• BD one time, had no clue of my cycle and when I O’d
• I’m sure it was a BIG O, lol…
• Was carrying 15 extra lbs


DS#2:• Vegan diet w/very little take-out or processed food (low fat/low sodium)
• No splenda, no aspartame but did use agave syrup
• No caffeine what so ever
• Pre Natals and Cal-Mag supps
• Very little stress (had quit my job and was/am SAHM)
• No house plants (see above)
• Around a full moon again
• Instead cup w/hips propped up for a long time
• BD a TON when I got a +OPK
• LOTS of BIG Os…
• Was still carrying extra lbs.
• Was breastfeeding DS#1

This current sway (some things are pink, some are not…):
• Pre Natals and Cal-Mag supps
• Acidophilus & other probiotics
• “Raw Meal” meal replacement…probably sways blue though due to the abundance of nutrients
• Still vegetarian but added non-fat Greek yogurt to my diet and allow myself to have low sodium/low fat dairy sometimes
• Low to no sugar but no aspartame either
• Lots of strawberries, no bananas
• A few nuts here and there but always unsalted and raw
• Peppermint tea a few times a day
• Sometimes a cup of black tea once a day and every once in a while a cup of coffee
• Still eating lots of nutrients unfortunately but am swapping spaghetti squash for white pasta
• 100% cranberry juice – 8 oz every am
• Little to no soy
• Neg Ion bracelet, necklace, PC USB, salt lamp in bedroom
• Charting w/thermometer to better understand my cycle
• Breastfeeding #2…Currently 14 mos now
• Several lbs lighter…BMI now 18.5 – 19.5
• Armed w/better strategies, pH tester, ferning microscope, Diva cup (just in case we do TBM), lots and lots of Sylk and Replens. Just in case, I’ll try to plan things to align with a new moon (or around there) and may take into account my & DH’s biochart. Hey...I'm willing to try! We'll probably BD every day after AF and stop once we get a +OPK. No big O, shallow missionary or shower and still not sure if I'll use Sylk or Replens but probably one of those. Hoping this will be enough once it's time to conceive...

[Indira]

With Ds 1 I was a vegetarian and didn´t drink coffee.
I worked out (just weights) 2-3 times a week.

With both I ate yoghurt and cereal for breakfast and had high blood sugar levels, a lot of snacking and every evening cookies or chips. A lot of pasta with tomatosauce, pizza, parmezan cheese, potatoes and with Ds 2 red steaks 2-3 times a week.
A lot of EWCM, BD on O or the day before with abstinence.
And both times I stressed myself and DH about DTD on O because I wanted to get pregnant so badly...
perfect boy sways!

[Glittergirl]

I pretty much had a typical boy diet. I ate lots of veggies, fruits, only whole grain, never fake sugar, ate nuts, red meat, white meat, no dairy, potatoes and tomato sauces, lots of weight training. thin but lifting weights and some cardio. Drank only water, soda on occassion, lots of coffee...hmm I pretty much did the typical mediterranean diet.