How we got our boys!

[atomic sagebrush]

you ladies are all AMAZING!! For putting in the effort of writing all this information out!!! Xx thank you so much!

One question did your DHs release in you in only in the month you conceived your DS or prior to that too?

My husband always has released in me except for the few days of the month when I'm fertile. Then he pulls out.

[meeks32]

you ladies are all AMAZING!! For putting in the effort of writing all this information out!!! Xx thank you so much!

One question did your DHs release in you in only in the month you conceived your DS or prior to that too?

Mine always released in me for entire month. We did it every 2nd or third day. I had no idea when o was with my boys, didn't temp or know about cycles much at all!!!

[boymaker]

As I've been reading through some swaying information, I think my eating habits are definitely fitting for boy sway. I munch throughout the day, I always eat breakfast. In fact, it's my favorite meal to eat. I am constantly having to force myself to remember that I get enough calcium because I am not a fan of dairy. I actually developed pains in my knees resulting from a calcium deficiency. When I got pregnant with both sons, I made sure to drink the Lactaid Fat Free Milk once or twice a day, but with Nesquik to mask the milk taste. I never ate yogurt, tried it for the first time a few months ago and actually fell in love with it, which is a good thing for a girl sway! Also I never ate or drank anything with artificial sugar, always made a point to stay away from diet or fat free things except for my milk.

With my first son and same goes for the second, I was always thin. I am 5"7. With my first son, I ate crap, nothing really nutritious and not a lot. I was weighing around 125lbs before I got pregnant. Gained about 50lbs with him. I spent about a year and half losing all the weight and lost all 50lbs by the time I got pregnant again with DS#2. So I'm a little iffy about the whole weight loss aspect in the difference between conceiving girls versus boys. But to be fair, I was incorporating weight lifting with cardio with second DS.

As for timing, I believe both boys were conceived a day before ovulation. Hope that helps anyone needing some blue dust :-)

[Sonia2003]

As I've been reading through some swaying information, I think my eating habits are definitely fitting for boy sway. I munch throughout the day, I always eat breakfast. In fact, it's my favorite meal to eat. I am constantly having to force myself to remember that I get enough calcium because I am not a fan of dairy. I actually developed pains in my knees resulting from a calcium deficiency. When I got pregnant with both sons, I made sure to drink the Lactaid Fat Free Milk once or twice a day, but with Nesquik to mask the milk taste. I never ate yogurt, tried it for the first time a few months ago and actually fell in love with it, which is a good thing for a girl sway! Also I never ate or drank anything with artificial sugar, always made a point to stay away from diet or fat free things except for my milk.

With my first son and same goes for the second, I was always thin. I am 5"7. With my first son, I ate crap, nothing really nutritious and not a lot. I was weighing around 125lbs before I got pregnant. Gained about 50lbs with him. I spent about a year and half losing all the weight and lost all 50lbs by the time I got pregnant again with DS#2. So I'm a little iffy about the whole weight loss aspect in the difference between conceiving girls versus boys. But to be fair, I was incorporating weight lifting with cardio with second DS.

As for timing, I believe both boys were conceived a day before ovulation. Hope that helps anyone needing some blue dust :-)

Thank you for post! I am 5'7 and I am comfortable around 125. Now I am around 134 with 3 months on the HE diet and I can really feel the extra pounds. I am glad to hear you were around the same height/weight. I am also doing cardio and weights now so I am hoping that helps my sway. I was thinking of getting back below 130 if I dont see the BFP next month just so I feel better with the weight thing!

[Niva]

When I conceived my DS, I had only just started ttc (we got bfp on our first cycle ttc!) and had come off bc pill two months before. My OBGYN told me that the fastest way to conceive was to DTD every other day, so that was what we did. We weren't swaying either way, this being our first, and I had never noticed any EWCM and didn't chart or test, so I don't know what we did in terms of timing.

As for diet, I always ate breakfast, usually instant oatmeal or cereal with skim milk, and had lots of snacks (cookies, peanut butter on crackers, fruit), especially around 4pm. I usually had a sandwich or leftovers for lunch and some kind of poultry, pizza/pasta, or ethnic restaurant food for dinner. I ate lots of whole grains, and not a great deal of vegetables. When I conceived, I was at my highest-ever weight (138lbs, where normal for me is 129-133) and we had just gone on a mini holiday so I'm sure we ate out a lot.

DH didn't do anything special, but for the record he does wear briefs. On most BD nights I made a point of O'ing 5-10 min after DTD because I read somewhere that increased the chances of conceiving. Position was likely spooning on our sides, but I won't swear to it since I don't know which night resulted in the bfp.

Looking back, my diet, weight gain, O after BD, and frequency of BD were all swaying blue. This time I'll do the opposite. Good luck, blue swayers!

[Kittybear]

My unintentional blue sway was:
- started eating breakfast (sultana bran flakes & soya milk) every day.
- sanatogen mother to be tabs 1 month before ttc and throughout pregnancy
- calcium & magnesium tabs 1 month before ttc and throughout pregnancy
- I am/ was a big meat eater (chicken, pork, lamb, beef you name it)
- I was addicted to salt and added it to pretty much everything
- I ate raw tomatoes and bananas pretty much daily.
- bd every other day from af to o (by my dates I had a 2 day cut off but by the scan dates we had no cut off). I wasn't charting.
- loads of ewcm (sorry tmi)
Hmm can't think of anything else, but I do see how it is little wonder that I got my blue bear! He is perfect and I wouldn't change him for the world, I just hope he gets to have a little sister!
Wishing all the ladies ttc blue the best of luck and sending you my blue dust! Please send me some pink back... x x x

[JenB17]

Hi,
I am vegetarian (have been since I was 5yrs old!) and I have two boys.
I eat a lot of carbs (pasta, potatoes, pizza, rice etc). I had an apple every day plus other fruit and veg. Not regular exercise and only small amounts when did. Always remained same weight. Lots of chocolate and love mlk. Ate lots of cereal, sometimes for dinner if I didn't have breakfast. Breakfast usually only on the weekends. Not much alcohol. Eat dinner around 7pm. BD all through O once I had a positive OPK. DH eats the same as me, but does eat meat - not a lot, but we clearly have a boy diet, lol! He wears briefs, sparadic exercise - although he used to play football twice a week. Never been into sweetener or fizzy drinks. Also, I (honestly speaking) 'wear the trousers' in my house and am pretty bossy ad usually get my own way, so plenty of 'T' If I think of anything else, I will add. HTH!

[Dollydot]

Looking back my diet is so boy... -lots of fresh fish(we don't eat meat, so nearly every night)
-Brown bread
-nuts and seeds
-love love my salt
-green and rooibos tea
-wine and choc on weekends(red)
- never on a diet
On the LE diet now, my body is in shock... Good luck

[mumof6]

lots of salt, red meats, always ate breakfast before work
hated milk and yoghurt - never touched either one only a tiny splash of milk in my tea
never ever drank coffee - i never touched it until i was pregnant with my 5th son
hubby was a smoker until our last boy was born and has been smoke free for the past 2 years, he was always a big coffee
drinker. average weight but had put on quite a bit when we conceived our last son which he has now lost.
with #2 i drank lots of green tea. i always had lots of ewcm with all boys bd every day sometime twice a day woth ds1 and pretty much every day with the rest.
hubby always wore loose fitting boxers
with #1 i worked reception so i constantly snacked on lollies at my desk
my third pregnancy was a failed sway which ended in twin boys
fourth pregnancy we didnt sway at all big surprise for us and fifth pregnancy was another failed sway which included aci jel, lime, cran, cal and mag. never did the diet and hubby smoked etc

fingers crossed this time is not another failed sway - things have changed dramatically since we were ttc our boys

[wildlauren]

I ate breakfast every day without fail-usually a large bowl of porridge with honey or vit enriched cereal. Always had three mmeals a day, red meat usually every meal for lunch and dinner. Took prenatal vitamins three months before ttc and for the 8 months we were ttc. HUbby worked away during the week so just bd through weekends and paid no attention to dates/times/temps etc. Very unstressed lifestyle, not much exercise, not massively overweight but towards top end of healthy bmi. Always had brown or wholewheat grains and no sweetener.
Hope this helps someone