Our Stories
The following contain both successful and unsuccessful gender swaying stories. If you would like to add yours please email to
help@ttcspecificgender.com
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I was TTC my daughter for 15 years! In Nov 2002, I gave birth to my fourth son which I tried to sway the gender odds to finally have a girl using the Shettle's method. After much disappointment, guilt, heartache, and loneliness in this TTC a specific gender journey, I looked for support to help me research getting my daughter. I never before belonged to any message boards. I was bound and determined to have my girl!
I did a Goggle search and found this wonderful, amazing group of women who have given me nothing but support, knowledge, encouragement and friendship along the way of TTC my girl!
I learned all about the gender swaying tips and techniques, but most of all I learned that there were many women feeling as desperate as I was. After I joined the board, I no longer felt alone or isolated regarding the heartache of TTC my daughter for so long.
After TTC for seven months using the methods I learned, I conceived Brianna Marie, and gave birth to my baby girl on July 2, 2004!
I have been a member of this wonderful board for almost three years and still look forward to log on daily to continue to offer support and friendship to the members here!
CMB1203
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After having our two boys, my husband and I waited for the "perfect" time to TTC our little girl. And of course, we would have her because I had spent countless hours researching all of the methods. I charted for six months in order to get my timing right. And when the time finally came, I had a perfect, classic Shettles attempt. Two weeks later, I got my BFP. Staring at the stick, my heart kept saying "There's your little girl." Eight weeks into the pregnancy, I lost "her". My first and only loss. It killed me emotionally.
Three months later, it was time to TTC again. I was petrified of another loss, but so desperately wanted to be pregnant. So I did a combo Shettles/O+12. I got an early BFP (10dpo) and had extremely high HCG levels. In fact they were in the twin range! This led me to believe that maybe this was indeed a girl.
Delivery day proved me wrong. After a 6 hour labor, out came boy #3. He was amazingly beautiful, and I was strangely content.
But the longing for a daughter returned rather quickly. At first I thought it was just my PP hormones. I was afraid to tell my husband about this. But through the encouragement from some of the wonderful women here, I poured my heart out to him. We are now getting ready to go high tech for #4. Something that I never in a lifetime thought I would be doing. I always figured I'd just have a boy and a girl (like my mother) and life would be great.
Boy, oh boy (and another boy!) was I wrong!!
Tessilu
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The story of how I got Ava...
I first came to the TTC a specific gender board the beginning of Feb.2003. I heard about the specific gender board through Jonas-I heard he was giving away free charts. Anyway, I knew nothing of gender swaying (I had 3 consecutive boys when I first found the board) and I so desperatly wanted a DD! So I applied for the Jonas program, but was saddened to learn I was rejected! They said I had only a 13% chance of EVER having a DD of my own :(
Well...that did not stop me. I went on to get pregnant in 2003, but sadly we lost that baby at 12 weeks. I mourned the loss of that baby, and then right back to TTC. I took all the supps, and went with the lunar method of TTC, as for what I've seen stat wise, that was the only accurate method. I got pg again in 2004 with twins, but again, I lost them both at 9 weeks-I was so devistated. It also turned out that at least 1 of those twins was my long awaited DD :( I also had a couple of chem.pg's along the way as well. I took a long break from the board, as it was too painful to be there with everyone else getting pg.
I decided after that that I would do no more gender swaying-I took it on pure faith that I would have my DD one day come back to me. So...My hubby and I started trying again. I was lucky enough to ovulate in a strong girl moon sign that month, and I did get pregnant.
That little angel baby stuck, and as it turned out, my little girl DID come back to me, and after all the losses, and waiting, and sadness, I finally had my Ava in June 2005
She is so worth everything I went through and more, and she truly is my dream baby girl.
I hope each and every one reading this right now get's their dream gender, it's a right everyone should have.
OmMamaTo4Beauties
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Hi there..I use to be Staceynboys, but changed my name once I found out that I was PG. Long story short...well, I'll try to make it that. I got PG in August, which resulted in a chemical pregnancy. I then got pregnant again in September which was a O+12 attempt...and I am having a boy! I am due June 8th.
I reseached all methods for over a year and a half. I even called microsort and got their package of info, but decided that it just wasn't for me. I have 2 boys, one was a result of BD'ing right on top of O, the other was a 4 day cutoff, so it seemed that O+12 was the other option to get my girl.
So last week I decided to go to Fetal Fotos, b/c I just couldn't take the suspense anymore and we saw the goods, no question about it. I got tomorrow for my 20 week u/s at my dr's office, where I know they will confirm it.
As for what I did to sway the odds, I was taking 1600 - 2000 mg cranberry daily, but before O I upped it to 8000 to 10,000 mgs as well as drinking a ton of cranberry juice. Calcium 1000 a day, mag 300mg a day, vitamin D (I think 500 mg), folic acid (additional 800 mg on top of prenatal vitamin, baby aspirin, 80g a day prior to O, and sudafed 2 days before O and 2 days after. I was also taking lydia pinkham, but maybe only 2 every other day. I cut back on caffeine, drank tons of milk, no fruits or veggies either. DH took cran, cal, vit C and a daily vitamin.
I charted for 4 months prior, as well as with my boys. I am the textbook O on D14 kinda girl, so I kind knew what was going on. I used OPK every 4 hours starting 4 days before I would O and realized that my window was not 36-48 hours of getting a peak to when I O'ed. I don't have tons of EW, but this certain cycle I was able to pinpoint it to a *T*. DH took a hot bath 30 minutes prior to DTD, I used a vinegar & H2O douche prior as well. Jump and dump, missionary, shallow, no O for me, DH abstained 7 days and I threw in the moon theory for good measure (moon was in Virgo, yin was 9, yang 4 and 8 out of 12 houses were in girl signs). I used PH strips to check my PH CM level...always between a 3-4.
Here is my chart if you are interested
http://ttc.fertilityfriend.com/home/59a2c
On cd13, I got my first + OPK at 9 am, at 1pm it was lighter than the previous one. 5pm was even lighter, so I assumed that I would have gotten a peak reading somewhere in the wee hours the night before. 9PM, the line was gone. I checked CP, CM (creamy and watery). At 12am I had O like cramps as well as a glob (TMI, sorry) of EWCM. I woke up several times during the night and I was very dry. Even taking sudafed for 2 days prior to O, it didn't dry me up. So that was it, I O'ed around 12am. (I always get O cramps). 12 hours from then brought me to 12:47pm the following day, in which we DTD. And here I am, 20 weeks along with a baby boy.
What I also used was astroglide, since I was dry. At the time, astroglide was the thing to use as opposed to Rephresh/Replens. Would that have made a difference? I don't know!
Did I take to many supps? What threw this theory off? I am about 99.9% sure that I o'ed at 12 that night...and 12 hours from there, made my attempt perfect. My temp rose the following day, but not above the cover line, but that is how my chart always is. So even O'ing at 12 midnight on the 14th, made my chart show O taking place on the 14th day. There is NO way that we DTD on O day. And I thought I figured this all out.
Well, I just wanted to update you girls that are considering O+12. If you have any idea where I went wrong, please let me know. Everything looked perfect to me. I think it really is just luck of the draw and *if* we decide on #4, I would only go high tech, no if's, and's or but's about it!
And my little Joey is now in my world!
jersey_girl
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I already had 3 boys and didn't really gender sway with them. In retrospect we probably bd'ed right on top of, or right before O since I've always had a pretty regular cycle. I bought a clear plan fertility monitor to try and perfect an O+12 for my 4th child. I used crantabs, unisom, rephresh, dh and I took hot baths, jumped and dumped, dh changed to boxers (but I did catch him in tidy-whities day of bd-hmmm). I think we bd'ed 2X that week b/c I may have messed up determining O and went for one "what the hell" bd - I find the whole darn thing quite confusing. Anyway, I eventually learned my fourth son was on his way. It was a very difficult pregnancy- emotionally. At an 11 week ultrasound the pediatric specialist said it looked like I was having my "little girl". I was devasted at the 18 weeks ultrasound to learn she was not on her way. This board, time, and not having pregnancy hormones helped me through a hard time. I haven't given up on my dream of a dd, but who knows what the future brings.
mysonshines
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