What's the deal with early pregnancy and YI?

[dreamofdaughter]

I read on another site someone said she noticed most pregnancies where one of the first symptoms is a yeast infection results in baby boys.

Any truth??

I literally NEVER get them unless I go swimming in a chlorinated pool (which is why I avoid swimming like the plague). Or if I sneak dairy (have allergy). But I haven't touched dairy in years.

Kinda feel like I have one but not 100% sure cause I don't really have any discharge, just feel uncomfortable/itchy. Can't use anything cause too early to test :(.

[dreamofdaughter]

Annnnd I feel totally back to normal. :confused:

But still curious if it's true that women who get YI after conceiving as early pregnancy symptom are more likely carrying boys and if it's observed as being a common phenomenon, why??

[RaisingGentlemen3]

My last pregnancy I got a YI around 5dpo and I NEVER get them! So I knew something hormonal was up. Also it didn't seem as itchy as the other YI I've had. I used plain Greek yogurt and injected up there and it took care of it. My ob said not to use YI cream up inside if I suspected pregnancy

[RaisingGentlemen3]

Annnnd I feel totally back to normal. :confused:

But still curious if it's true that women who get YI after conceiving as early pregnancy symptom are more likely carrying boys and if it's observed as being a common phenomenon, why??

I don't believe there is really any symptom at all that truly indicates gender. Especially that early. What's true for one person could've been a coincidence or maybe just won't be true for you

[atomic sagebrush]

Nope. No truth to that.

LOTS of women get yeast infections during pregnancy because of the leukorrhea you get. Since leukorrhea can be a very early pregnancy symptom, you can get them almost immediately upon implantation occurring. Has nothing to do with baby's gender whatsoever though.

There is NO difference hormonally between boy and girl pregnancies early on. The Y chromosome is totally dormant at that stage of gestation so there is no differene in testosterone levels (this is what some people will claim - that boys are making you high in testosterone from day one so you can tell different genders from pregnancy symptoms), but it simply isn't true.

There is a slight difference in the average HCG levels between male and female pregnancies - female pregnancies ON AVERAGE make more HCG than male pregnancies do. But this is an average meaning that most babies, boy or girl, fall into the middle range anyway and there is NO WAY to tell based on any pregnancy symtpoms or HCG levels alone what gender a baby is. Plus, more pregnancy hormones would then mean that the opposite was true - you'd expect to observe more YI in female pregnancies than male ones.

No matter how you look at it, this is a false observation.

[dreamofdaughter]

Thanks AS and RG. I am pretty sure this was not my month conceiving anyway but it's good to know for future months. Only one more week of my TWW and then I can try again! :)

[RaisingGentlemen3]

You never know, you might see those 2 lines next week! GL!