Boys born to aggressive mums, Girls born to passive mums

[cvd]

Could be. I have 3 boys and I'm competitive, aggressive, ambitious, Type A RAWR personality. Hah! I'm also a giant stressball too, the type to worry about nothing and obsess over everything.

We see the trend of this overly obsessive stressed out worrier type on the girl sway boards. Not sure if it would reflect our testosterone, but I wouldn't be surprised!

Actually, I'd also be curious - how many of us boy moms are firstborns? Because firstborns tend to have these personality traits. My husband is the baby of his family and a complete opposite to me in personality (thank goodness or we'd kill each other!)

True for my DH and I, I am first born as I am THE ONLY lol and he is the baby of 3. I am very aggressive, independent, organized ect. And he's so go with the flow, anything works kinda guy, senstive. And your right we would so kill eachother if he was any different hahaha

[Dreamofpink]

I'm a first born, but then so is my mum who had two girls. We're quite similar in that we both shy away from confrontation, but will stand up for ourselves when pushed. I have become more mellow since being on this diet, but I don't know if it's just given me more hope after a crappy year of TTC with a cut-off and nothing except for a chemical.

My sister has no children yet, but if your theory's right she'll have boys as she's very confrontational at times and gets on her soap box a lot too (mind I can be quite opinionated too!) However, she eats more of a girl diet. It'll be interesting to see when she does start a family.

I know one lady who is the most gentle, kind and soothing kind-of Mum and she has two girls and two boys in that order. I know she seems to be quite stressed out at times, but from what I can tell she's not the shouty type at all. I didn't know her when she had her girls as babies and don't know her well enough to ask about her eating habits then! I also know another lady who has a boy then twin girls and she seems quite competitive. Another lady has two girls and she's extremely competitive! The last two are quite plump, so I do think that it's more down to diet.

[Wishing4Princess]

Oh yeah. I'm agressive and competitive and get agitated and really pissed by just about everything that doesnt go my way. I would say dh and i are total opposites. His calm, relaxed personality gets on my nerves, lol.

I have 2 boys and most likely carrying my 3rd boy..

[Butterfly Spirit]

Oh yeah. I'm agressive and competitive and get agitated and really pissed by just about everything that doesnt go my way. I would say dh and i are total opposites. His calm, relaxed personality gets on my nerves, lol.

I have 2 boys and most likely carrying my 3rd boy..

I am the same... I wonder if it's all the stress that comes from how driven we are in life..
seriously.

I hope you have your DD in there hon!! It's possible!

[SaraLou]

Not true for me! I am massively competitive, fiery, short tempered and very ambitious/career driven. Constantly stressed lol. And I have a little girl My two friends who had boys the month before me are way more chilled, laid back and generally calmer people!!

[Rosie85]

Stressed career driven women sway girl though...BIG time. Lawyers and doctors have tons of girls. Statistical fact. I think there is a big difference in fiesty and hot tempered when it's paired with career driven and then when its paired with just being 'normal" I am not a career driven person, I just get stressed nothing is going well for us but don't have the same drive and ambition to change it as someone who is career driven does. Totally different type of stress and anger/temper.

[LacePrincess]

Hah, I see a trend! Exceptions, too, but definitely a common link.

Hubby's ambitious but soooooo laid back......and I'm the screamer with the short fuse. His surface calmness and complacency makes me want to kill him sometimes, lol.

My mom was a middle child and had two girls. She simmers under the surface but isn't quick to temper like me and my dad. I take after my grandmother on my dad's side - she had 5 boys and 3 girls, with the last of the kids being twin boys. I'm not willing to go to #6 to get a girl though!

[Rosie85]

Hah, I see a trend! Exceptions, too, but definitely a common link.

Hubby's ambitious but soooooo laid back......and I'm the screamer with the short fuse. His surface calmness and complacency makes me want to kill him sometimes, lol.

My mom was a middle child and had two girls. She simmers under the surface but isn't quick to temper like me and my dad. I take after my grandmother on my dad's side - she had 5 boys and 3 girls, with the last of the kids being twin boys. I'm not willing to go to #6 to get a girl though!

My scan tech yesterday was saying how he had a lady that had 5 boys and she got pregnant one last time because she just knew number 6 would be her girl...it was!

[SaraLou]

Stressed career driven women sway girl though...BIG time. Lawyers and doctors have tons of girls. Statistical fact. I think there is a big difference in fiesty and hot tempered when it's paired with career driven and then when its paired with just being 'normal" I am not a career driven person, I just get stressed nothing is going well for us but don't have the same drive and ambition to change it as someone who is career driven does. Totally different type of stress and anger/temper.

Oooh I didn't know this. Interesting - and when I compare myself to my female peers it is very true....colleagues of mine do indeed have lots of girls x

[fairyfrog]

Mom of 1 girl and 4 boys and I am definitely not aggressive...unless passive aggressive counts?LOL My nickname growing up was miss priss. I come from an all girl family. 5 of us. Dad left the picture when I was 3.