View Full Version : Anyone had a pattern that got broken?
Inky
January 2nd, 2013, 08:39 AM
Though I see that wives tales aren't accurate, I have noticed some people have pattern on an individual basis based on gender. Like always sick with their boys, never with their girls. Always craved spicy foods with your boys, never with your girls.
But I'm wondering if anyone has had a pattern only for it to get broken in a later pregnancy.
For example, were you REALLY sick with m/s with your girls and not with your boys, but then didn't have m/s the next pregnancy and still had a girl?
Or maybe you craved pineapple with all your boys and cheese with you girls, but then you craved cheese and had a boy?
I hope my question makes sense. I guess you've had to have a lot of kids (and kids of both genders) to notice a pattern and give it a chance to be broken, though lol. but I'm curious. Based on how I felt with my boys, how I felt with my girl, and how I feel this time . . . I feel like I'm having another boy.
Feeling Blue
January 2nd, 2013, 09:23 AM
With ds1 I craved fresh, crisp food and only had a bit of nausea for 2 weeks then absolutely fine! Lots of energy etc...
With ds2 I was sick from 6 weeks, starving hungry but ill, vomiting or dry retching at least once every morning from about 8 weeks until 4 months. Couldn't eat meat for months, tired etc....
So same gender but 2 completely different pregnancies.....
Inky
January 2nd, 2013, 09:42 AM
I've definitely heard of that before :) But some women seem to develop patterns. I guess I'm just hoping for those of us who DO have patterns, there is still hope of the pregnancy being different then OUR other pregnancies of the same gender (ie: pattern breaking eventually).
rainbowflower
January 2nd, 2013, 09:49 AM
I've had 3 pregnancies so far (although didn't quite make it to the 2nd trimester with the first one) but I have had different symptoms each time and have had 2 boys
OnlyPraying
January 2nd, 2013, 10:00 AM
I had same symptoms with my first and third pregnancies...first is a boy and third is a girl. Interesting to note is that my second is girl too!lol
Mrs_P
January 2nd, 2013, 11:56 AM
I know of at least one mom who had hypermessis with her first daughter, then nothing with her second and only only mild m/s with the two boys.
I have all boys but third pregnancy was so different from the first two which were like carbon copies of each other (although interestingly ds1 and ds2 are like chalk and cheese but ds1 and ds3 are two peas in a pod)
Inky
January 2nd, 2013, 12:43 PM
Thanks for giving me hope, Mrs. P!
I know I am very lucky to already have 1 little girl. And I will love this baby no matter what. But 1) special needs run in my family with boys 9 out of 10 times on BOTH sides of my family (both my boys currently are ASD) and 2) I want one more chance to dress little girls up and do little girl things. We almost didn't have another because of the possibility it could be a boy, but ultimately we decided we want another BABY. Though we HOPE it's a girl, we knew we wanted another baby either way. Still, I know I will go through a period of sadness if it's a boy, not because I will be unhappy that he is who he is, but because I will be unhappy that our dream of having another little girl has come to an end without another little girl in the picture (this will be out last child).
Wanting-a-girl
January 2nd, 2013, 01:15 PM
With cs 1 and 2 I craved vinager with ds3 craved sweet things like cherry coke and Belgium waffles
Inky
January 8th, 2013, 06:44 PM
I think one of my patterns will be broken one way or another this pregnancy.
with my boys I had mild m/s and with dd i had severe m/s. This time, it's mild.
with my dd, I craved fruit, with my boys, I craved meat. This time, I crave fruit.
aroundtheworld
January 15th, 2013, 03:26 PM
Child #1 (girl): Severe fatigue and no nausea
Children #2, #3, #4 (boys): Slight fatigue and lots of nausea
Current pregnancy (twin girls!): Fatigue (not severe, but not light) and lots of nausea again
Symptoms really do not determine gender.
atomic sagebrush
April 7th, 2013, 09:13 AM
yes. My pg with DS 2 was the most similar to DD and he is def a boy LOL. My other three boy pg, there really was no discernable pattern, they were all different. My 3rd pg was a very weird and intense pg with lots of symptoms, and that was the one where I had my heart broken because I was so sure that different pg had to = a girl, but he is the boyinest boy who ever boyed LOL.
I really, really think that it has to do with YOUR body and where it is hormonally and nothing to do with baby's gender.
Bub's
April 15th, 2013, 10:49 AM
Yes very much so, had very bad morning sickness with my girls from start to finish of pregnancy,and beaten up from the insides really early on, with my boy's I had mild sickness for a few weeks, got dark hair on my belly and had the dark line from belly button down from early on with the boys and never got it with the girls,the boys wasn't so active till the end of pregnancy
Now this pregnancy NO sickness what so ever no extra hair no dark line baby very active but very soft kicks, very bad spd keep getting colds which with the others wasn't ill ever lol not sure what sex baby is yet till friday and so can't wait
Navywife620
April 15th, 2013, 12:49 PM
DS1 & DS2 pregnancies were very similar. I think I felt slightly sicker with DS1. but I had all day sickness with both. Now I don't know the sex of of this one but the sickness is starts in the evenings and I have it all night, but I feel fine during the day.
motherofboys
April 15th, 2013, 01:01 PM
My 3 boy pregnancies were all the same, hardly any sickness, no cravings, lots of headaches. This pregnancy tons of sickness, lots of cravings and no headaches at all.
I will update in 3 weeks when I know the gender for sure but I'm pretty certain my body is just trying to trick me and I'll have another boy.
I have a friend who had girl, boy, girl. Her 2nd girl she was convinced was another boy because her pregnancy was exactly the same as it had been with her boy.
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