Sway plan - opinions please!

[popple]

First post so please be gentle!

I have a 17 month old son and would love to have a daughter next time around if at all possible. DH and I are thinking of trying for baby No.2 around July time. I have been researching swaying for a girl for a few months now and have already started skipping/delaying breakfast, reducing mid morning and afternoon snacks. Have been doing this for around 4 months now and have dropped between 5-7lbs in weight. Have also been keeping a note of my CM for the last 3 months (my cycle is 29 days each time). Looking back at when I conceived by little boy I can see how my lifestyle and diet (snacking a lot, salt, full fat cola, lots of meat, potatoes, bananas etc) were very boy friendly. So, with this in mind I am planning on doing the following:

Taking Saw Palmetto from AF - O
Folic Acid daily
Zirtek when EWCM arrives
Rephresh from days 7-18 (using every 3 days or so to keep ph level low)
DTD every 4 days

Diet wise I have next to no will power (and this is where my sway may fail, booo). Like I said above I am delaying/skipping breakfast and cutting out bananas and potatoes as best I can. I have also switched to Diet cola which I am going to start drinking daily from beginning of June onwards. Also incorporating artificial sweeteners to tea, eating dried cranberries, fresh strawberries, greek yogurt etc and upping my dairy intake and trying to reduce meat intake (although this will be hard!).

Would be grateful to receive any thoughts/opinions/advice as well as whether I have missed anything crucial from my sway or if any of it is OTT.

Thanks in advance : )

[bluebonnet22]

This looks good overall, but you don't need to increase dairy. In fact your sway would probably be better if you minimized full fat dairy. You don't need to eat cranberries or strawberries to sway either unless you really want to.

Try to reduce fat, protein and calories overall and you'll be fine.

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[popple]

Thanks for the reply! I get so confused as to whether you need more calcium or not hence why I put that into my sway. Thought I'd read somewhere that strawberries and cranberries swayed girl but I may be wrong. Hoping my calorie reduction is enough, I have such an appetite! Hoping as I will be swaying over the summer months that I will naturally eat less food and we will be eating more pasta, rice, salads etc.

[carmella_marie]

There are no magic foods. Feel free to eat bananas in moderation and potatoes are great for a girl sway-- atomic jokes that her daughter is like 30% potato, lol. Now a small baked potato is much better than fatty fries or chips.

Do not feel like you need to eat cranberries --they are full of nutrients that sway blue. Other sites recommend cranberry to lower ph, but you can do that through taking baby aspirin instead and avoid nutrients that sway boy.

Dairy also does not seem to swayin any significant way. It used to be thought calcium swayed and so eat a lot of dairy, but atomic has several essays on why calcium probably doesn't sway at all and the protein and fat in that dairy is going to sway blue.

Cut out all meat if you can, there are several studies confirming vegetarians have more girls.

[maidentomother]

I would focus on keeping total daily cals to 1500, avoiding meat (especially red meat but all meat as much as possible) and reducing fat greatly (especially butter, fat from dairy, olive oil, animal fats in general, also avoid coconut/avocado/nuts) - I believe those aspects sway the most. It's fine to eat some bananas and potatoes in moderation. Sounds like you have been reading about sway tactics from other places - the LE diet is different and the reasoning behind it is VERY different so I recommend reading up on it.

I think if you can make the necessary dietary changes you will have a grest sway! All your other tactics look good. You may want to try just one attempt at positive OPK the first few months...I would personally drop Rephresh before moving to BD every 4 days.

[atomic sagebrush]

Hi, I know this is super old but just spotted it.

Do you still have any questions?

[popple]

Well I am on the cusp of TTC (AF will arrive sometime next week). In the last few weeks I have become a lot more relaxed and to a certain extent think that 'what will be will be'. Think that I will more than likely skip using Rephresh although will use Zirtek from end of AF to OV if I have a large amount of CM. Still skipping brekkie until at least 11am making it around a 15hr fast. Have been having cinnamon toast (can't get enough of it atm!) for brekkie made with artificial sweetener rather than sugar - Is this ok on a pink sway Atomic? Generally reducing calorie intake, although having a normal size evening meal and since doing this and skipping brekkie I have lost 14lbs and am at my lowest adult weight so feel this is a positive for my sway

Definitely going to DTD every 4 days. I remember when TTC the first time around we DTD every night so thinking anything opposite from what we did first time around may help with our sway.

Anything glaringly obvious missing from my sway that you can see? FYI - I am just taking one 400mg tablet of FA. Should I take more?

Thanks so much in advance for any tips/advice. Really appreciate it : )

[atomic sagebrush]

Yes cinnamon toast for your first meal is fine. Sugar or artificial sweetener, iether is fine.

Be careful not to lose TOO much, may be time to up cal intake and put the brakes on weight loss.

everything else looks good

Yes up folic to 1200, take the 400 morning, noon, and night.

[popple]

Thanks Atomic! AF arrives today so this is it, first official month of ttc a little girly, argh!!