Old Wives Tales

[dreaming4pink]

Did any of you have completely different pregnancies but same gender? Many of my friends have all the same gender and same pregnancies, or different genders but still same pregnancies. I'm just curious (for fun, of course), if anyone had same genders, but very different pregnancies. Anyone???.

[XXforhubby]

I had completely different pregnancies with my boys! I will not be relying on symptoms when I get pregnant again. The only thing that was the same with both boys was I carried low with them, and you couldn't tell I was pregnant from behind. Everyone said I was having another boy based on those two things. Who knows though with a third pregnancy! I am in the best shape of my life now, so maybe that will effect how I carry another baby!

How about you?


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[atomic sagebrush]

Yes. My two most similar were my DS 2 and my DD. My other three pregnancies with my DS 1,3,4 were all quite different and VERY different than the ones with DS 2 and DD

[atomic sagebrush]

Body shape doesn't work either. I was super high with my first boy and my the time DD rolled around, she was low but it was because I"d had 5 kids and nothing to do with gender. And "low" for me was still high because I'm shortwaisted. IT's your body type and where the baby is that change the way you carry.

[Pebbles&BamBam]

I agree I'm having a boy and someone said to me, ohh your carrying too high for a boy. I put nothing into it as we did HT and had 2 u/s confirm boy

[Nahri]

No one can even tell at 27 weeks that I am even pregnant. Same thing happened my first pregnancy. "symptoms" all depend on where your body is during pregnancy. Your hormones could be higher or lower than the first time around, gained or lost weight, and a million other physical things. The reason I don't show is I have a slight curvature of my lower spine. Baby has more room to hide in the back and not stick out so much in the front.

[XXforhubby]

No one can even tell at 27 weeks that I am even pregnant. Same thing happened my first pregnancy. "symptoms" all depend on where your body is during pregnancy. Your hormones could be higher or lower than the first time around, gained or lost weight, and a million other physical things. The reason I don't show is I have a slight curvature of my lower spine. Baby has more room to hide in the back and not stick out so much in the front.

Me too! I never show until 25-30 weeks!


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[Nahri]

right before delivery on my last one I still looked like I just ate too much!

[hopper]

I had 20 weeks of Hyperemesis Gravidarum on both my boys, definitely knew I was having a second boy when it kicked in at 6 weeks. My friends mother had HG on her two boys then she had her girl and she didn't know she was pregnant until she was 10 weeks gone. She said she breezed through the entire pregnancy - would love if we had a successful sway that I could have an enjoyable pregnancy!

[dreaming4pink]

When people say they felt great with their boys and sick with their girls, I think "Really? OR is that in your head because of the OWT?" Is there any truth to that specific OWT? Where did it come from, and why?

[mommymachine]

I agree I'm having a boy and someone said to me, ohh your carrying too high for a boy. I put nothing into it as we did HT and had 2 u/s confirm boy

That's so silly!!! DS3 practically lived in my ribcage!

[atomic sagebrush]

I had 20 weeks of Hyperemesis Gravidarum on both my boys, definitely knew I was having a second boy when it kicked in at 6 weeks. My friends mother had HG on her two boys then she had her girl and she didn't know she was pregnant until she was 10 weeks gone. She said she breezed through the entire pregnancy - would love if we had a successful sway that I could have an enjoyable pregnancy!

Not true, you can have HG with boy or girl pregnancies. In fact, studies have shown it's actually about 3% more likely with a female pregnancy.

[atomic sagebrush]

When people say they felt great with their boys and sick with their girls, I think "Really? OR is that in your head because of the OWT?" Is there any truth to that specific OWT? Where did it come from, and why?

This has been very well researched and it has been shown definitively that while there is a very slightly higher number of women with a rare and very severe form of morning sickness called hyperemesis gravidium, there is ZERO correlation between just plain morning sickness and baby's gender. and even with the HG, it is only a 3% difference so many people are getting HG with boys or girls.

Sheer speculation alert, I suspect that back in the days when people didn't have as many food choices and had little/no medical treatment for morning sickness, it is very likely that any woman with severe, or even not that severe MS, who couldn't eat enough, were probably more likely to lose an XY early on in pregnancy due to malnutrition (because XY need more nutrients from moment of conception onward) and so it might have appeared that MS = girls but it was just a weird kind of coincidence.

[dreaming4pink]

This has been very well researched and it has been shown definitively that while there is a very slightly higher number of women with a rare and very severe form of morning sickness called hyperemesis gravidium, there is ZERO correlation between just plain morning sickness and baby's gender. and even with the HG, it is only a 3% difference so many people are getting HG with boys or girls.

Sheer speculation alert, I suspect that back in the days when people didn't have as many food choices and had little/no medical treatment for morning sickness, it is very likely that any woman with severe, or even not that severe MS, who couldn't eat enough, were probably more likely to lose an XY early on in pregnancy due to malnutrition (because XY need more nutrients from moment of conception onward) and so it might have appeared that MS = girls but it was just a weird kind of coincidence.

That makes great sense!

[dreaming4pink]

So does MS seem to worsen as we get older? Everything else worsens as we get older, especially my energy and metabolism (or lack thereof) :nails:

[Nahri]

I can tell you that this time I fit the OWT of girl problem skin and hair when I didnt have those issues with my DS. But I am a different weight, more health problems, and of course jacked up hormones from already one pregnancy plus being older. So many factors too hard to prove! Granted a few old wives tales have been researched into a semi-theory like heartburn and hair. The tale goes if you have massive HB your baby will be born with a full head of hair I think the stats on it are 80% when a study was actually done. It held true for me the first time but it hasnt been bad this time around.

[hopper]

Not true, you can have HG with boy or girl pregnancies. In fact, studies have shown it's actually about 3% more likely with a female pregnancy.

Oh I know you can have it on both and after having it both my first and second pregnancy I've been told it's practically a given I will have it on subsequent children. I'd just love if I had a sickness free pregnancy like my friends mother had on her only girl lol, dreaming out loud!
Actually the HG was the main reason I was so sure and convinced I was having a girl on DS1! Everyone said HG is way more likely when you are carrying a girl so I took it as fact, naively!! And thus began my GD story lol. I often wonder if I hadn't been convinced I was expecting a girl would I want one so very badly.

Oh well,one good thing about HG, it means you look forward to labour cause it means the pregnancy is finally over!! Give me a 100% drug free labour over 20 weeks of HG any day! ;)

[hopper]

This has been very well researched and it has been shown definitively that while there is a very slightly higher number of women with a rare and very severe form of morning sickness called hyperemesis gravidium, there is ZERO correlation between just plain morning sickness and baby's gender. and even with the HG, it is only a 3% difference so many people are getting HG with boys or girls.

Sheer speculation alert, I suspect that back in the days when people didn't have as many food choices and had little/no medical treatment for morning sickness, it is very likely that any woman with severe, or even not that severe MS, who couldn't eat enough, were probably more likely to lose an XY early on in pregnancy due to malnutrition (because XY need more nutrients from moment of conception onward) and so it might have appeared that MS = girls but it was just a weird kind of coincidence.

I joined an online support group during my first bout of HG, it got me through the darker days and we all had great fun speculating what genders we would have. Of the 13 women due within 3 months either side of my delivery there were 7 girls, 6 boys including my little man and one delivery of B/G twins so just slightly more girls than boys.

My friend had her second baby late last year, she had a girl first and breezed through pregnancy. The second time she had slight MS and became so sure she was having a boy because the sickness was something she associated with my pregnancies. I did try to tell her not to get her hopes up as I remembered the feeling after having DS1. She had another little girl. Just shows that no two pregnancies are the same just as no two children are the same either.

[atomic sagebrush]

So does MS seem to worsen as we get older? Everything else worsens as we get older, especially my energy and metabolism (or lack thereof) :nails:

No, didn't for me! I had the worst MS with my first pg and then the least with my second, and then my last pg I had the least MS of all.

I had a pretty easy pg and birth with my last pg despite being as old as Methuselah with that one. :)

[atomic sagebrush]

I can tell you that this time I fit the OWT of girl problem skin and hair when I didnt have those issues with my DS. But I am a different weight, more health problems, and of course jacked up hormones from already one pregnancy plus being older. So many factors too hard to prove! Granted a few old wives tales have been researched into a semi-theory like heartburn and hair. The tale goes if you have massive HB your baby will be born with a full head of hair I think the stats on it are 80% when a study was actually done. It held true for me the first time but it hasnt been bad this time around.

I keep meaning to look into that as I've had wicked heartburn and bald babies, but I did hear there had been a study done. :) I suspect it's probably hormones = hair growth and also = heartburn and not hairgrowth = heartburn. :)

[Rosie85]

The heartburn thing is interesting. All three of mine were born with tons of hair and i had horrible heartburn with all 3...getting worse each time. This time around i already have heartburn going but i doubt any hair is growing yet haha!!

[PrimalMamma]

I am pregnant with my 3rd son & all 3 of my pregnancies have been totally different. I swelled all over & had to have my wedding rings cut off with my first pregnancy. Didn't happen with either of my other 2, in fact at 33 weeks I am still wearing my wedding rings & they are loose. I had terrible acne with my first 2 pregnancies, didn't happen with my 3rd. I had middle back pain with my first 2 pregnancies, my 3rd I have sciatica. I had horrific all-day sickness in he 1st trimester with DS3 & only mild sickness with the first two. Loads of other differences. Symptoms mean nothing.

[atomic sagebrush]

:bowdown: I think I may have said this in this thread already but my two pg that were the most similar were two different genders. o.O My others were all quite different from each other.

I also had horrid finger swelling with my first and not the rest. :think: