swaying girl in fall 2012

Hi Everyone!

I'm mommy to 2 awesome boys and would love to have a little girl join us. Dh has made it clear that our next baby will be our last, so I've got one attempt to make a girl. I've just started reading up on 'swaying' here and I'm sure I'll have lots of questions for everyone! Best wishes to all of you!

Hi Jadis, I am in exactly the same boat as you! Fingers crossed for us both x

Pink dust to you, Emily! When are you trying? Ideally, I'd like to get pregnant in August or September.

Hi Jadis! I'm new here too, and am also going to be girl swaying in Fall, hoping for a may baby.

Hi Ladies! We are in the early stages of starting our attempts..we have 2 great boys who love eachother, but my oldest asks for a baby sister almost everyday! I would love to have a May baby since this is my birthday month, but at the same time, Im excited to be pregnant one last time..Jadis, my DH has made it clear this is my last shot at a girl as well, so Im super nervous! Ive been staring at all these pages for over a year now, and now that its getting close, Im second guessing myself! Hopefully if we sent enough pink dust flying around on this thread we will get our girls!lol

Hi i have never had any kids before but am trying to sway girl for my first baby in fall/ winter 2012. Fingers crossed please keep in touch on priv ate message

Sounds like we're in the same boat! Good luck to you, let's keep in touch!

Do any of you ladies have your plans for attemot figured out yet? I keep second guessing myself

You and I both! My head is swimming with all the stuff I've been learning from this site. I keep thinking "OK. Shettles. I'll do Shettles....No! Wait...I'll do o+12. Yes, O+12 is the one for me....no...wait...." I'm driving my dh nuts.

I'll be honest-some things seem logical to me and others make no sense to me at all but seem to work. I can't understand the "Jump & Dump" approach-wouldn't you be dumping out girl sperm too? It's not as if the girl sperm knows to stay inside and the boy sperm know to jump into the toilet. Also, if you're doing O+12, why would you have a cut-off of 3 days? Don't you need to abstain for at least 7? Maybe I don't know what 'bd cut-off' actually means.

There's only one thing that I'm unwilling to do to try for this baby girl-I won't skip breakfast. I also won't follow the diet too strictly if it means that I'd lose weight. I'm only 97lbs on a good day, I can't afford to lose an ounce. I'm skin and bones :(

I feel like I'm making progress on the plan though, I've been having dreams about hearing the words "It's a girl!" at my ultrasound someday.

I wouldnt do Shettles, in the past few years they have pretty much realized it doesnt work...Im trying the O+12 because I know then that Im going to O, I just have to leanr my body to see if I can narrow it down, to When I o,lol.."Jump&Dump, I dont really get either, I guess the thinking behind it is, if we make our bodies more girl friendly then as soon as they get in there they start working there way up..the boys however cant get around in an acidic enviroment, so by "dumping", your letting go of the ones who cant survive, I think I would wait about 10-15 min..after dtd before doing J&D, if your doing that.."bd-cut off" means they are doing a 3 day cut off, you track when your going to O, after a few cycles you know when it should happen, and you dtd about 3 days before O, then abstain for the rest and keep your ph low through O, 'm not doing this, b/c I worry about keeping my ph low enough for about 6 days(dtd 3 days b4 O, then after the egg has expired, or fertilized)..O+12 is when you abstain for yes, over 7 days, but any higher is better.. You also abstain leading up to the cut-off method as well.

As far as eating breakfast, its hard not too, since having my boys, if I dont eat within a few hours of being up, I start feeling sick, then whole goal with not eating breakfast is to keep your blood sugar low, so I feel like, the days leading up to O, I will try and wait as long as possible, but also, Im going to skip dinner or have something really light, so my blood sugar dosent go up..Im on the opposite as you though Jadis, Im heavy:(. But as long as you eat right, and not alot of sweets or anything late or right beofre your attemot, you should be good with blood sugar! Its weird, with my boys when I knew I was going to start trying, I would have dreams..but this time, even though I want to dream, its not happening, I dont know if thats the stress or what!

Are you girls following the moon signs, or Ions? Jadis..I hope that clarified some things for you..hopefully I didnt confuse you more

Thanks so much, it really did help to clear up a few things for me! The moon looks good for me in Aug. or Sept. so I'm happy about that! What about you? What factors are you going to be paying attention to?

Hmm, well Im trying to have a good bit of them, Im not doing anything strict because if I go crazy my DH will back off and not want to do it at all,lol..but he is on cran. and LR, he was on all of it but he was so tired during the days and he drives for a living, so thats not safe!, The diet Im doing, or adding in sway stuff, mainly alot of strawberries, yogurt,milk..staying away from red sauces,meat,and acidic stuff, dinner I just try and "sway it up" alittle but I still fix stuff that my DH and boys will eat, although we havent had speghetti for a while, so Im in trouble for that,lol...I try and watch the moon phases, I figure if it lines up when I O then thats just one more factor in my favor right? Ions, Im not doing anything huge, its been raining here alot lately and I have accidently found myself out in these storms as they crop up on us, so I guess thats good, plus all thewindows in the house have been open since its been raining, hopefully those negative ions find there way in here,lol, timming Im going to try O+12 like I wrote before, but Im nervous about that, and Ive been tracking mine and DH ph's his is in the 7.6 range(naturally I guess, the supps didnt seem to help that) and mine is down from around that 6.5-7 mark from the beginning to the 4.5-4.8 range so Im pretty happy about that...what are you doing? I guess if I count.....I guess Im doing atleast 6 of the 7, I cant remember what that 7th is right off hand that I seem to be missing as for the from what I can tell May and July are better for me..but how are you finding out from the moon, just going by how many girl signs and when your going to O around the new moon?

Well, like I said, I'm constantly second guessing myself :) I think the stress of knowing that we've only got one shot at this, is making me go a bit crazy! My plan so far is to do the O+12 attempt because it seems to have more success than the shettles. Both my DH and I will take Cranberry, Calcium Citrate, and Magnesium. He'll also take Licorice Root from my AF to O. He's given me his word that he won't release for at least 7 days before our big attempt, I hope I can trust him with that. We'll both drink a ton of Crystal Lite each day, and we'll steer clear of tomatoes, potatoes, bananas and salt. I'm ovulating this week and I've been paying attention to my CM and PH for the first time in my life. I think I O'd yesterday and my PH was around 6, had lots of EWCM. I'm going to start charting with temp as soon as I buy a decent thermometer. I'd like to use the next couple of months to practise nailing down my O so that I'm more confident when August rolls around and it's show time. I'm not doing much for Ions except keeping the windows open, using a fan at night and blow drying my hair with an Ionic blowdryer. I may buy myself a rose quartz pendant or bracelet, just for luck. They're pretty, so I won't mind wearing it I'm also thinking about what kind of douche I should be using to help lower my PH-Lime? Replens? Refresh? Sylk? I'm lost.

I don't actually know anything about 'girl signs'...I've just been using my calender to see if the new moon lines up with the time I O. It seems that the moon only aligns with my O in August or September so I'd really like success at one of those times.

My DH thinks I'm becoming obsessed with this-he's right! I can't get enough of this site. Knowing that I'm not the only woman to feel this way, to feel like someone is missing everyday, it's reassuring. I hope we're both seeing pink in the near future!

Thats great that your learning your signs like that!! By August you should have it down:) The girl signs are Taurus,Cancer,Virgo,Scorpio and Pises, I keep forgetting which side the new moom phase is on...the 2 weeks leading up to the NM or the 2 weeks after?

As far as the douches Im not actually doing the lime douche or tampon, neither really worked to lower my ph that much, and with it around that 5.5-6 mark around O, the rephresh only stabilizes your ph at 4.5, but I need it to lower way down, so Im going to use Replens about 30 min. before our attempt, take sudefed, and extra cranberry that day to help us lower the combined ph which has been at the 7 mark! I think the Rephresh and Sylk are lubes as well, but Replens is a moisturizer so that works too, plus it has a low ph of 2... just cant do it right after our attempt or it will kill all of the swimmers, I think its timing really:)

My DH KNOWS that Im obsessed, although Im really trying not to go crazy or my stress levels will go up, and that sways boy:(

Where do i find out about when to try in my cycle and what to eat what not to eat if i want a girlt