Thank you for the luffly new thread cups, may it bring is all much luck and many BFPs (I just accidentally typed PFBs - how freudian is that?!) I'd heard that chocolate is bad for dogs, the darker the worse it is. So pleased that your pooch is on the mend. It's so scary when they do that, they don't realise how bad it is for them.
I had also heard that IVF has a higher chance of producing a boy. I hadn't heard about the opposite for ICSI. TBH (and speaking for myself and myself alone, without casting judgment on anybody else) as long as it's alive and healthy I wouldn't care if it had a tail, let alone what gender it was.
As for swaying through natural conception, I'd read that mixing the sperm with egg white supposedly increased your chances for a girl as the egg white forces the sperm to put a lot of energy into swimming out of the egg white and girl sperm is, as someone mentioned on the other thread I think, supposedly more robust even if it is slower. I wonder if non-spermicidal non-ttc friendly lube might have the same effect, as that can act as a sperm barrier whilst not killing them.
I've been a bit up and down emotionally lately but last night I had a complete and utter meltdown. I was on the verge of jacking everything in, leaving MrG and booking myself into a travelodge. Calmed down a little this morning. Desperately need a great big mug of perspective though.