That is great for you! Im sure I would not get a boy swaying pink. And we are doing the opposite actually now.Quote:
Originally Posted by girlmom
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That is great for you! Im sure I would not get a boy swaying pink. And we are doing the opposite actually now.Quote:
Originally Posted by girlmom
I have one son and working on my girl sway :) for me, I was probably at my heaviest weight.. when I conceived. I did eat tons of different foods though.. mostly starchy veggies but lots of veggies either way, lots of meat, lots of pizza, hamburgers, fries, ice cream, basically I ate a big variation of everything! high in sodium - I was diagnosed with pre hypertension during my pregnancy.. imagine that. always had lots of EWCM. GL mamas.. sending you all some blue dust!!
Thanks nks! Im also at my heaviest -18lbs but still heaviest before ttc grrrr. Hope it works lol
I"m glad that worked for you but I think for most people, doing the opposite is not a good sway tactic. Sometimes doing the opposite is worse than what you were doing to begin with...if you don't lose weight on the Atkins Diet, the answer is not to do the opposite and eat only cookies, candy, and cakes - that would only make you gain weight even quicker.Quote:
Originally Posted by girlmom
Swaying isn't a black or white thing, there are hundreds if not thousands of variables at play, most of which are utterly out of our control, and every single one of us would eventually have an opposite without swaying.
But the LE and HE diet is opposite or not? I mean I eat a lot more and drink a lot more now. Also different food and drinks.( lot more healthier now)
And I use to be pretty much like a LE diet girl or even lower that that lol.
But girlmom says she got a boy on girl diet and i just can't do that and hope for a boy on it because I got my girls like that.
Right, HE and LE are opposite but I'm talking about just the general idea of "I BD on O and got boys/girls so this time I have to do the opposite and BD 17 days before O so I can conceive a girl/boy." KWIM? It's never just a matter of doing the opposite, you have to change your whole body chemistry and diet is the best way we know of to do that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Flava
Re girlmom's diet, I believe she ate a lot of dairy when she conceived girls, and then cut back on that for swaying blue (I am assuming??) and remember, I think dairy may sway blue for a lot of people (and I conceived 4 boys eating tons of dairy so I know it's not a magic bullet for pink.). So by doing the opposite, cutting out dairy to TTC blue, it actually may have backfired. :/ Not that it is her fault in any way and certainly not trying to pick apart hers or anyone's sway, just trying to illustrate how doing the opposite may not work, if what you were doing before was actually BETTER than what the opposite was. The opposite isn't always better, sometimes the opposite is actually worse than what you were doing to start with and it may have had nothing to do with why you got boys or girls to begin with.
Hope that makes sense and HUGE apologies Girlmom for using you as an illustration. :( I hate it when people do that!!! :(:(
Ok, I guess it's time for me to chime in:
With DS1 I was in college and following a pretty typical GIRL diet, but I was crazy stressed and eating a poo-load of sodium (think ramen noodles etc). No dairy, I lived on rice milk. But I was also 19, so my fertility was pretty high.
With DS2, I was 31 and following a primal (caveman) diet. Lots of fresh veggies, LOTS of meat and seafood. My favorite snack was smoked oysters straight out of the tin (gross I know!) Nothing, NOTHING processed... we rarely ate out. Everything was cooked from scratch and I added a copious amount of sea salt to EVERYTHING. We ate liver at least once a week (and occasionally other offal, I won't gross you out with the details LOL) I ate fat on all of my meat, NEVER cut it off or strained it out. Way too tasty! I had just become a WAPF member (Atomic lists the Weston Price pregnancy guidelines in another thread in TTC Boy, and trust me, they run VERY blue...) I was drinking raw milk, not a ton, maybe 1-2 small glasses a day. I was taking cod liver oil, but inconsistently. I also drank quite a bit of red wine, but not sure that's good for blue OR pink (DS2 was an oops after a big holiday wine binge)
FYI - while on the WAPF/primal diet, I gained about 10 pounds - but only 10 pounds. (I was raw vegetarian before - interesting story for another day.) And I've been on it for about 4 years now (well, except for my LE Girl Diet hiatus...). I was historically 120-125 (at 5'5") and on this diet I weighed max 132. (I probably wouldn't have gained that much if I had exercised, but that is SO not me!) So, it CAN be done without gaining a ton of weight. I'm just adding this because I know many ppl are concerned about this!
How I conceived my ds2:
I basically did everything to enhance fertility! I was obsessed with increasing EWCM, so I took EPO with vit E, drank 2l of still water everday(the more fluids, the more EWCM), I also took prenatal vitamines, drank fertility tea. I ended up with tons of EWCM (sorry tmi). I also ate a lot, thinking this would enhance fertiltiy as well. I always have big breakfasts and I am generally a big eater (all things that I avoided when ttcing my dd, by then I knew about the swaying theories). We dtd frequently every 2-4 days. My son was conceveived on the day of the first positive opk, a 1-2 day cut off, dtd doggy style (this is such a cliche, sorry, but my dd did in fact result from a missionary dtd ;). One key thing in my opinion: from starting ttc to my first check up appointment at 6 weeks, I had already gained 5kg in weight!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Have all my blue dust girls!!!xx
Well i'm a mom to 3 sons and never realised just how boy friendly my diet and lifestyle was until reading this forum.I have been reading up on gender swaying for years but this thread and the mom to girls thread has really opened my eyes as to why i'm boy friendly.
Ds 1: 1999
I knew nothing about ttc and got pregnant by accident. I can recall is had my af on the 15th dec lol (it was my birthday) and i know we concieved ds on christmas eve or christmas morning). At the time i was living away from home and my diet consisted of sweets, junk food and beer lol. I was my slimmest then though.
Ds2: 2004
By this stage i was a classic junk eater. Bread with everything, salt on everything and anything, full fat coke, no dairy except milk on high calorie sugary cereal, chocolate, crisps, anything that was quick and easy. I did'nt excercise and thought that when i had loads of ecwm that, that was when i was ov so i timed dtd then. DOH!
dS3: 2008
BY THE Time i was ttc ds 3 i had been reading up in gender and other sites and thought if i took a few supplements, and drank loads of milk i was swaying lol. I still had the same diet and still was a salt addict. Maybe not as much junk as i got married that year and had lost a lot of weight but that went belly up on our honeymoon which was the month before we ttc ds.Looking back now my slight attempt to sway was silly as again i never knew exactly when i was ov and again i went by ecwm so again it was right at ov.
My diet over the years:
Pizza,crisps,choclate,mayo,full fat everything, salt everywhere,full fat coke,chips with loads of salt and vinegar, i drank cups of tea with 2-3 sugars and full fat milk about 3-4 times a day, green tea,potatoes,gravy, chicken, not much red meat, sausages, eggs, noodles,salted peanuts, cakes, biscuits... god how bad was my diet lol.I'm not as bad now though.
I'm new, but thought i'd add my boy info since I now know I was doing everything boy. :) Ds#1 was conceived in Nov, and DS #2 was conceived right around Christmas. So I was eating big meals both times. I was also working when I conceived both boys, and my job required travel. As a result, I was eating fast food every day for lunch. I would try to eat healthy, but even with "healthy" fast food, there's huge amounts of sodium in everything. I ate breakfast every morning (a bagel with butter and dr. pepper), and I snacked through out the day (usually on cookies, brownies, etc.). I don't drink milk, my only source of calcium would be through cheese. I have no idea what the timing was. We were TTC, so we just DTD as often as we could. I had just stopped BCP, so I had no idea when I was ovulating. No lube, and I did O. Hope this helps someone. I leave all my blue dust right here!
(oh...and I'm thin with a great metabolism, so I could basically eat whatever i want and not gain weight, especially 6 years ago when ds#1 was conceived!)