Could this be true as to why some of us get all girls/boys??

[3littleladies]

Hi all,

I read an article some time ago based on womens cycles and it found that women who have long cycles mostly conceive girls and women who have short cycles mostly conceive boys, so Im assuming those who have irregular have both genders, has this been true with you?

I usually have a 31day cycle and O around day 17-18 so I guess mine is long, therefore it would be true for me.

Hey, atomic here - Updating all the helpful threads 12-13-17 so I am simply moving my reply here in italics to this question from the 3rd page to the first so people can better see it.

First of all, 31 days is not a long cycle. That is a normal cycle. Oing on CD 17-18 is not unusual or "abnormal" in any way. It is normal for cycles to go anywhere from 21-35 days (3-5 weeks), and some sources even increase that to 42 days (6 weeks) if that is a person's regular cycle and they aren't irregular.

To answer your question, conceiving girls or boys has nothing to do with the length of your cycle per se, it's the underlying REASON why a person has short or long cycles that may sway. There is more than one reason why cycles could be short or long.

Long cycles due to PCOS seem to be correlated with more sons conceived. Women with PCOS have higher testosterone levels.

Long cycles due to hypothalamic amenorrhea (where your body stops ovulating or yoru cycles get longer due to diet, exercise, excessive stress and this lowers estrogen) seems to be correlated with more daughters conceived.

Irregular cycles can be caused by any or all of the above. It is common for people with both PCOS and HA to have no cycle for months and then to have a few normal ones and then back to spotty ones again.

Women with normal "short" if you'd like to use that term (because what I think of as a short cycle may be anovulatory and caused by LOW estrogen and is affiliated with menopause, not the type of cycle I think you're talking about), may have a lot of estrogen that speeds up the process from egg to ovulation, and that same estrogen makes a lot of really fertile CM that seems to sway more blue.

But again, that's just a coincidence, it's not that their cycles in and of themselves are doing a thing, it's that conceiving in a month when you have a lot of nice EWCM may make it more likely that you conceive a boy, and that is more likely to happen in a month when everything is running like clockwork and you have a normal length cycle.

There are a LOT of reasons why a person might have all boys and all girls and the biggest of them is LUCK.

[ejk741]

I have really long cycles.. 35-40 days and I have a girl

[3littleladies]

mmmm, I really hope we get heaps of ladies replying so I can see if there is some truth to it or if its just rubbish!!

[BeadinMom]

I've always been a cd 14 ovulation on a 28 day cycle kind of girl...
I have 3 boys

[Becca.lms]

CD20 ovulation on a 31 day cycle. Two boys.

[sbowman]

I have long irregular cycles, usually about 34 days, sometimes more. Only once did I have a perfect 28 day one.


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[Becca.lms]

I had a long cycle and decided to go and make it shorter!

[sbowman]

How did you do that?


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[Kittybear]

Usually long cycle (bit irregular) and I have a boy. I think like most 'gender prediction' things (peeing on things, stuff you crave, how quickly your leg hair grows!! etc.) this will be correct 50% of the time x

[Everyonehasgirls]

I have long cycles 36-40 days and I'm a boy mum