Gender of baby in pregnancy relates to breast size!

[Rainbow baby]

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Trying to attached article
Here's the link! http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21544894

[Pearl327]

Sorry to be the 1st post to say not for me it didn't.

My DD which was also my 1st pregnancy my boobs stayed put in their 32DD cup until the last month when they went up to 32E and this time around I am still wearing the DD cups and it is a DS. So not much changes to my boobs regardless of gender

[mummypink]

Well for the first time (this is my third pregnancy) my boobs have gone up 2 cup sizes. I've never had any real change before in my first two pregnancies - but the scan showed we're having another boy so unfortunately it isn't true for me.

Thanks for posting about it though, interesting theory. x

[Wanting-a-girl]

i read that a couple weeks ago and got very excited lol as with my three boys my breasts did not grow until after they were born and this time before i was even 3 months i was spilling out of my bra!!! (so much for that breast reduction i got :S) i will know in 13 sleeps if that is true for me!!!!!!

[cvd]

Not true for me!
First pregnancy, DS1, my boobs stayed a 32B until about 2-3 months after starting breastfeeding, all of a sudden they ballooned to a 34D and stayed like that until I finished nursing when he was 8 months. I had a crazy milk supply, literally a fountain, I have no idea where my little normal 32B's were storing it in the beginning LOL.
Second pregnancy, DS2, my boobs grew to a 34D about 8 weeks into pregnancy! I'm hoping they don't grow anymore!

[nuthinbutpink]

This was true for me.

[Ipadmad]

Expecting my third boy and I'm very grateful that in each pregnancy, my 32As have grown. I love my pregnancy boobs - just wish I could keep them beyond the 9 months!

[Hopeandwishes]

When I got pregnant with my son was 104lbs 32 D once I got pregnant was the first to grow they got huge I was in a 38F my sister had to take me to get fitted it was so embarrassing she made a big deal to the lady about it. How I was not supporting them properly. Just to show it wasn't due to weight gain everywhere day went in to give birth was 131/132 lbs. I was boobs and belly.. The boobs definitely took a beating. ;)

[Hopeandwishes]

If it is true I get my dream of having a little girl I may need a crane or something to support my back. Pull those puppies up..

[atomic sagebrush]

First of all what a dumb theory about the evolutionary reason why that might have happened. I really hate the way some researchers use TWH to support silly things like that.

I couldn't find a study like that after a quick look (would love to see it if anyone has the time to post a link, baby is fussy this am) but my thinking would be that if someone was really tiny to start with and then got pg and gained some weight, and boobs are one place your body stores it up. So your breast size might increase exponentially over someone who had a lot of muscle.

I am no help because my boobs have gotten progressively bigger with each pg and my girl is my last so I can't tell if they're bigger than normal or not.

[mommymachine]

True for me.

[The Anchor]

HUH! Totally true for me!

[Bigwish]

I saw this study a while ago and even if there is ON AVERAGE a difference between boy and girl pregnancies, that means that it depends on the sample size how large that difference is. If you have a very large sample size even the slightest difference will give a significantly different result, but is it clinically relevant then? That's the question.

Furthermore, measuring circumferences is very prone to error, both inter- and intra-observer variability often play a major role! I don't know if they took that into account. It sure says something about the validity of the results if agreement within and between observers is low...


And to give you anecdotical evidence (which isn't evidence at all ;-)), my breast grew very fast during my first pregancy, so fast that stretch marks popped up instantly! But it was a boy! LOL (although, stretch marks on your boobies aren't something to laugh about....giggle)

[Rainbow baby]

Me to Atomic I have been looking for a study as well since I read the article and I did think the relationship to the twh was stupid but I have two friends who's partners both left after the had girls and the stupid reason in both cases was the selfish daddy went to look for a boy making machine!! That's when I was think mmmmm yeah maybe I guess but these guys were tools in the fist place anyway!! In saying that a few mothers that I know that have left the kids are treated different to the girls getting more attention and presents but I always assumed that is because dads have more common interests with the sons!!!! I am about to go and see if my mum had got the paper if so I will scan and attach the article for everybody!! To be honest I think I might be confusing the twh with when I was looking for the studies rather than in the article I will have a go trough the history on my pc and see if I can find that one! I haven't been feeling myself since I have been taking a new medication for gerd!! My memory has been there and here and things are being lost!! In short I am stopping the medication as the doctors advice!! Feel like I am sedated/ hang over!! I am so happy I don't need it as you can imagine :)

[Rainbow baby]

Er I don't know what I did but I will try again :/ I did find the article!! Next door neighbour also got the paper :p

[Rainbow baby]

Ok think that worked the link is underneath I thought it was apart of the article but I must have seen in when looking for studies!! I did get a little confused in the end I think :/ pfffft I am not a scientist by any means lol Sorry for all the confusion!! I just posted it for a novel thing... I know pregnant ladies obsess about gender and thought it might be a fun guessing thing! Not in a serious way at all !! Of course or breast density changes as we age, our weight flutters up and down Up Up Up in my case, pregnancy you don't go back to normal! I don't see how this can work or how it could even be done and controlled in a study but thought it might be a fun thing!! If the article isn't allowed I am sorry I am really not savay in the whole copy right rules and then the file sharing rules! Please take it down if it isn't allowed and in advance sorry for causing the problem of having to take it down!

[geminispinkmoon]

How funny. It's not true for me, but I find the theory amusing :bigsmile: