Hi Everyone,
I honestly cannot believe I am here sharing my success story! We opted for a private gender scan this evening (at 17 weeks) and we are so thrilled to be saying that we are expecting a little GIRL!
After about 15 mins of having her legs tightly crossed (very lady like already), we were able to get a good toilet shot. We asked the sonographer to give our son either the blue or pink baby singlet when they were certain of the gender. Once they got the shot (she paused it on the token three lines) we closed our eyes and she gave the PINK singlet top to DS. He then came over and placed it on my tummy. As soon as I opened my eyes (even though I saw the three lines, I didn’t believe it until I heard it) I saw the pink singlet and just burst into tears. DH couldn’t see but knew by my reaction that we were expecting our first little girl – our first daughter!
We were both elated. I am still in disbelief, and of course am doubting the accuracy…but I knew I would if we were told girl. However, those three lines are etched in my memory, and I just know in my heart of hearts that it is indeed a girl- and as the sonographer pointed out the three lines indicate the vagina!
I want to start from the beginning. I utilized these success stories the whole way through our swaying journey…it was my savor, my motivator and proof that perseverance can pay off.
We already have a beautiful boy, who is the absolute light of my life. I adore each and every day we share together. When DH and I decided to add to our family we knew that two was probably our limit and we both started talking of our desire to give our son a sister, us a daughter. I started researching ways in which we could increase our chances of conceiving a girl. It was on another website I stumbled across a-gender. I quickly logged on, read every single post ever made (well that’s how it felt lol!) I then took the plunge and emailed Maree and Cindy.
DH was very keen to start so we ordered our plan and started the diet straight away. Both our PH levels were naturally high, our diets favoured boys and we discovered that DS was conceived in boy time for DH and borderline for me. We needed a strong attempt. The day our plan arrived I felt like a ‘giggly’ school girl. I studied our dates and made sure we knew EXACTLY what we needed to do in order to have a perfect attempt.
The diet was trying…DH was actually my rock through it all. We stuck to the diet and never had any of the forbidden foods. Maree was absolutely fantastic at answering questions…and she answered some questions let me tell you! Our PH levels were DH 7.5 and me 4.5-5. Then came first attempt time. We did everything we were told!!!! Our attempt was solely TBM…we thought let’s just do everything the first time and then ease off if it’s not working. TBM was a whole new world to us…we giggled and laughed at mixing the ’sample’. Yet at the end of the day we both admitted that although it all felt a little clinical it also felt extremely, extremely romantic – we were trying to fulfill our dream.
We had three TBM attempts and no normal BD’ing attempts. I never knew when I O’ed as I never got a positive OPK…this drove me absolutely insane. But again Maree was fantastic at assuring me that sometimes the OPKs don’t pick up the surge. I tested nearly 4 times a day for a week!!!! Still no positive. However, I did get o pains on my left hand side. This was the only indication I may have O’ed. No CM – the diet had done a good job at drying that up! I used the BCP to align, so I thought maybe this affected me actually ovulating
I said to DH, after the first TBM attempt, that worked, we’re pregnant. That was the last I thought of it. That was until I started to get extremely tender breasts and felt a little sick. I put this down to AF coming. On mothers day I plucked the courage to test. I was 2 days late. It was positive! We were so excited. We giggled again, admitting to each other we really did not think that it was going to work! It did, and honestly I thought it has to be a girl, surely! We were so lucky to have fallen pregnant on our first attempt. I really did think it would take much longer. I really do know how lucky we are for this. I must have ovulated!!!! And at our 12 week scan the sonographer revealed I had released an egg from the left ovary…the pains were o pains after all!
My symptoms were:
Sore boobs (Never had this with DS)
Nausea in the morning and night (Did not vomit this time but did with DS)
Headaches (Never had this with DS)
Hate Meat (Never went off meat with DS)
Love OJ
I am still feeling extremely tired and have not had that wonderful surge of engery I had at this stage with DS
Skin has only started to get a little bad now – nothing on the scale it was with DS
Many things pointed to me carrying a girl. I have had dreams that it is a girl, but dismissed these. Tanya guessed right for me saying that she was 65% sure I was having a girl based on the nub shot (Tanya you really are amazing – thank you). Everywhere I looked I saw baby girls (I remember this happening with DS, only I would see baby boys everywhere). The kicks have seemed a bit more dainty lol!
So here I am typing my success story. I honestly cannot believe it, and will be waiting for another confirmation shot.
Both DH and I want to express our gratitude to a-gender – Cindy and Maree you have helped make our dream come true! Thank you for answering my many, many emails. It feels a little surreal…we aren’t telling anyone IRL as we want it to be a surprise.
To everyone reading this who is attempting good luck, I really hope I have given you some inspiration. Dreams do come true.
Thanks for reading.
Our girl (you can see Our girl’s post on our forum)
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