We Need More Pink

Our little girl is almost 1

2010-06-21T05:45:00.000-07:00

I can't belive it she is almost one.

Baby Ruby is here

2009-07-13T17:10:00.000-07:00

It started out on July 1st, I went in for a midwife visit. She checked me and i was 1-2cms dialated, and my cervix was soft, and babies head was engaged. She did a membrane sweep and then i went home to wait. For the next 2 days I started losing my mucus plug, but no contractions. Then on Sat July 3rd I had some bloody show. So I went to the store got everything ready, and dh and i went out walking. ihad a few contractions, but nothing regular. Then about 9:30 they started to get uncomfortable abd regular. At 10 pm I called the midwife , and she said she would meet us at the birth center at 11pm. we arrived and she checked me and i was 6-7cms, effaced, and baby was at 0 station. I got in the tub and the contractions got stronger and at 12:30am on July 5th baby Ruby was born.

We went to the bed and got to know each other and we went home about 3 Am. So our family is complete, with a final count at 3 boys and 2 girls :)

It's a girl!

2009-02-14T18:30:00.000-08:00

We got our girl! We did it! 20 week ultrasound says healthy baby girl.

We got a BFP!

2008-10-17T10:31:00.000-07:00

We got a BFP at 9 DPO, that is pretty early.

I had been feeling off since last weekend. had a stuffy nose, slightly upset tummy, extra hot, extra tired. plus i just suspected. So on wednesday afternoon i took a dollar store test.It look like a BFN at first but when i looked later there was a line. So i took another dollar store one the next day with FMU and it was a faint positive so i went out and bought FR and digital ones. The first response was a BFP that afternoon. I took another FR and a digital this morning with FMU and got another BFP. So i got a BFP on 9,10, and 11 DPO :)

I hope the early symptoms and BFP are good signs. But i have done all i can, it is in Gods hands now. I wil let you know in 20 weeks if it worked.

Oct attempt

2008-10-17T10:29:00.000-07:00

Well we have been doing research for about 1 year and TTC for 6 months. It took 6 months of TTC to concieve DD too so i am hopeful.

I was taking calcium 1000 mg, 100 mg b vitamin complex, 10 mg Loratadine(antihistamine), sudafed a couple of times. Drinking several glasses of cran-razz juice a day. cut back on sodium, and increased dairy.

My ph was 5.5 , and DH was 7.5-8

We did O+12. We BD 24 hours after my 1st + OPK, and when my CM had shifted. My cervix stayed soft and my temps were low for 2 days. Then my cervix went firm and temps spiked. But my CM stayed sticky.

About 5 minutes after BD i added a big glob of replens and went to bed. I added another big glob of replens the next day too because my ph went up into the upper 5's

All set for October

2008-09-29T18:56:00.000-07:00

our attempt for October is about a week away. Getting excited again.

no go for Sept

2008-09-10T20:25:00.000-07:00

Well i developed a UTI this month. We are skipping it and looking forward to Oct.

My experiment continued

2008-08-31T18:27:00.000-07:00

First of all we got a BFN for August. So we are on again for Sept. We are following the same plan again O+12, i just think we need to bd as soon as possible after my CM turns sticky.

On to my experiment. I retested the RO water with enhanced minerals, and also i found some purified drinking water that is RO without enhanced minerals. The ph of Both was 5.5 which is good. So i am going to be drinking this purified water and check my ph and see if it changes.

our August attempt

2008-08-21T09:14:00.000-07:00

We got a BFN for July So we started again with Aug. This time i O'd earlier than expected. On CD 8 i stated to get some EWCM witch is normal. My temps were really low this month, and on cd 11 i had a temp drop from 97.5 to 97.4. Also on cd 11 I had a +OPK and my cm was sticky by the end of the day. I was not sure what to do so we did not have the attempt that night. The next morning I discovered my temp had risen to 97.6. Still had sticky CM So we BD that night after BD I used some replens. I tested this before and replens brought my ph down to a 4.5-5.0. The next morning it was still a 4.5 to 5. I think we might have been to late. We had one other unprotected BD 5 days before o. I an not holding my breath for this cycle but you never know.

doing an experiment

2008-08-21T08:40:00.000-07:00

The ph of various waters was discussed recently on the board. Someone suggested that the ph of reverse osmosis(RO) water was very low. That got me thinking When we conceived Gabby We had an RO water filter for drinking water. I think it was for only drinking water but i can't remember exactly. When we conceived all three boys we were not drinking RO water just spring water or filtered water.

So i have been doing an experiment. i tested the ph of our tap water and it was at 6.75. Then i tested the ph of our filtered fridge water and it was a 7.0. I am not sure why the difference but it was there.
then i got some purified water that was filtered with an RO filter. The water was enhanced with minerals Magnesium Sulfate, Potassium Bicarbonate, and Potassium Chloride. The ph was kid of hard to figure out one of my ph strips said 5.2 and the the other one said about 6.0 so i am not sue about the discrepancy.
My next step is to find some RO water that is not enhanced with minerals.

our attempt this cycle

2008-07-21T12:06:00.000-07:00

Ok so we tried o+12 this month. On cd12I had ewcm and my cervix was soft. CD13 cm was sticky and stayed that way all day. my cervix was soft in the morning but felt medium by the end of the day. So we bd last night before bed at about 10:30pm.

This morning my cm was obscured, but my cervix still felt medium. My temps went as high as i would have liked either. I hope i did not bd too soon, or if i did o i hope we did not wait to long.

here is my chart .
I guess only time will tell.

2008-06-25T06:23:00.000-07:00

BFN for last cycle.
Well ,we are skipping this cycle. My ph is totally wacky this month. Last week it was in the 6's right after Af. Then it went down to the high 5's. now it is up to the high 7's. After i got the high ph's last week I started taking a probiotic pill everyday to see if that would help lower it. obviously it did not. Also i have learned that going in the pool might cause it to go up.
So no pool, no probiotic.

here is a list of all the supplements i am taking.
1200 calcium
250mg magnesium (every other day, every day made me so irritable i thought i had permanent pms)
100 mg b6
500 mg vitamin c
1900 mg cranberry
81 mg baby aspirin
10mg loratadine (generic for claritin)

I took sudafed around o time last cycle 3 a day fr three days, but it did not dry up Cm or make my ph any lower.

rephresh does not work it made my ph go up.

the only thing i have not tried is douching. some ladies on the board have said that vinegar douche makes their ph go up. so if i try that i will definatly make it a lime one.

my new plan

2008-05-28T10:24:00.000-07:00

Well around o time my cervix usually is high and soft for about 3 days, and i have some ewcm. then my cervix shift to low and my cm becomes sticky for 2 days then my temps shift up. So i was thinking instead of trying to stop 3 days before o we could just wait and bd during that time my cervix and cm switches until my temps rise.

Well the time has come

2008-05-28T10:13:00.000-07:00

Well we had our first attempt. Well to start with for the last two months I have been taking cranberry, and calcium supplements. As well as eating increased dairy, and lots of pasta. I have also added aspartame an artificial sweetener to lower ph. My ph is in the 5 range when not oing and in the6 range during o. It is not really changing much. i have also been excersising a few days a week.

This is our first attempt. We started frequent bd starting on CD4 until CD10. We were planning on going until cd 12 but my body started acting like it was oing. On cd 9 i has cramps low on my right side and on cd 10 i had some cm with pink streaks in it. Now we jst have to wait and see what happens. I really hope i get Af so we can try something else next cycle.

my plan now

2008-03-31T09:35:00.001-07:00

It is now about two months until when i wanted to start trying for pink. i have been thinking alot about the time frame i concieved my DD. I was not swaying, but i was consuming a lot of dairy, i was cooking a lot and using low salt seasoning. drinking cran juice, excersicing 3 times a week. So i was trying to duplicate these things.
So for the next two months i want to
Eat lots of dairy, cook using low salt, drinking cran juice, and excersicing at least 3 times a week. I also want to add cran, and calcium supps.
Plus monitor ph and cycles.

hopefully i will be ready for my first try in june :)

Tested ph

2008-03-16T15:05:00.000-07:00

And it was 5.5 not to bad that is pretty acidic. I just wish i could incorporate some sort of exercise
routine into my schedule. I really think that may have had something to do with it last time.

long cycle

2008-02-02T06:13:00.000-08:00

did i mention it was a 35 day cycle.

Cycle #2

2008-01-30T06:51:00.000-08:00

Well it is cycle day 1 again. I could not tell you when I ovulated. It was very unclear this time, hopefully it willget easier as time goes by.

first cycle

2008-01-05T05:31:00.000-08:00

Well i had my first cycle since having Dillan. I am going to wait until he is weaned before i attempt gettng pregnant. So for now i am just tracking my cycles.

diet

2007-12-21T14:12:00.000-08:00

ok with the diet. I read cut out tomatoes, patatoes, the only fruit is apples and pears. Lots of milk and yogurt. pasta and rice is ok. low salt, not going to go to crazy just cut out all processed things.

I read the Shettles book.

2007-12-19T06:30:00.000-08:00

How to choose the sex of your baby. It all makes sense to me. If you want a girl start trying from AF to two or three days befor O. then stop, until after O. When you O a couple of days later the majority of what is left should be girls.

I still want to make my secretions more acidic through supplements and mabey douching. I also don't want to do to much and make creating a baby seem like a science experiment and not very fun.

Also when we concieved Gabby i was working out three days a week and i was not when we concieved the boys. I don't know if that has anything to do with it or not, but it cant hurt.

Books

2007-12-06T10:27:00.000-08:00

I got two books, Taking charge of your fertility by Toni Weschler. and Guarantee the Sex of Your Baby: Choose a Girl or Boy Using Today's 99.9% Accurate Sex Selection Techniques by Robin Elise Weiss. I also have How to Choose the Sex of Your Baby: Fully revised and updated by Landrum B. Shettles and David M. Rorvik on order from the bookstore.

The lady who wrote the guarante book is against doing anything natural to sway. She says it dosent work. She says if you ar serious you need to go high tech.

i am looking forward to reading the dr shettles book.

I think once Dillan is weaned i will take a couple cycles to track my cycle. And start us o some suplements. Cranberry, calcium and magnesium/vitamin d. I don't think i will alter our diet to much. try to cut back on salt and increase dairy. then after we may try dr shettles method with timing.

that is the plan for now.

Book Titles

2007-11-25T18:05:00.000-08:00

Chooose the sex of your baby, by Hazel Phillips

Guarantee the sex of your baby:chooseagirl of boy using todays 99.9% accurate sex selection techniques, by Robin Elise Weiss

How to choose the sex of your baby: fully revised and updated, by Landrum B Shettles

baby girl or baby boy: determining the sex of your child, by Mark Moore

These are the books i ordered, but canceled. I have been reading a lot of info on www.in-gender.com.

curse you Amazon

2007-11-25T14:49:00.000-08:00

well not really. The books i ordered had not shipped and the estimated arrrival time was after christmas. So i canceled the order. I was really looking forward to reading them. i will have to scout the local stores

when Are my book comming?

2007-11-22T05:26:00.000-08:00

I ordered some books on the subject. and they haven't even shipped yet! I am waiting here :)

The planning stage

2007-11-20T10:28:00.000-08:00

Hi there,

We are the Smiths. I am Christine, My DH is Steven. We have four kids Colin is 9, Joe is 7, Gabby is 3, and Dillan is 8 months.

our family website is www.smithtownjournal.com

We have decided to have one more child. And I want another girl, so we decided to used some at home techniques to try to sway the odd of another girl. I want to use this blog to organize my ideas and formulate a plan.