For all those moms of larger mixed gender families

[Mrs_P]

How many children have you had of one sex before you got the opposite sex?

Just wondering if there is any real sort of pattern, i note that a few moms have mixed families naturally anyway but often with a run of either boys or girls in the middle

[bythestream]

There is a lady who has a blog called the marathon mum, she has 8 boys no girls!

[BeadinMom]

There is a lady who has a blog called the marathon mum, she has 8 boys no girls!

Not encouraging... LOL

[atomic sagebrush]

It's a little bit hard to say because usually when people have a long run and then get an opposite, they stop having kids.

I have 4 b 1 g
My husband's grandma had 5 b 1 g
My great grandma had 6 g, 2 b
I know a lady from IG who had a boy, then 6 girls, than 2 boys
And another lady who has 5 g 1 B.

The Duggars have a run of B/G, then a run of B, then a run of G.
Then there's the Arndt family which has the potential to make all of us break out in a cold sweat with a long run of boys, one daughter, and then another long run of boys Meet The Arndt Family (2010) - FamTeam.com

I do think there are a disproportionate number of runs than should be statistically expected in bigger families, that's something that could desperately use a study!!

[Mrs_P]

Thanks girls, i didn't neccessarily mean like hugely large just anything over 3 really. Atomics do nothing sway go me thinking, is it abnormal anyway even if you do nothing to have a large number of one sex. Eg if 80% of moms with four or five kids go on to have an opposite it works to our advantage anyway.

Sounds strange but i like the percentages thing it makes me stress less, if the fact that i have three kids makes me more likely to get an opposite it stops me stressing so much about my sway. maybe slightly strange but may help lower t levels lol.

i noticed a few moms with five kids on here swaying girl but already had a girl in the mix anyway just surrounded by boys in a run.

There was a mom on the tele over here a year or so ago - 8 boys and wanting a girl but she had had a girl (as in conceived a girl) but unfortunately she was born with a problem i think and sadly didn't make it. So although she did have 8 she'd statistically had a girl (must have been worse for her though to want something so badly she's already had but had it taken away from her)

[Lucky-happy-blessed]

I had three boys then a girl then two more boys

I didn't sway for any of them apart from boy number 5 who was a failed very poor attempt at an ig sway. Since being on here I've noticed a lot of things I may have been doing in the past to unintentionally sway (such as losing weight before I got pregnant with my dd and using pre-seed with my younger boys etc)

[Mrs_P]

thank you lucky i hope it works for you a second time

[love-my-kids]

All with the same daddy-

BOY, BOY, GIRL, BOY, BOY, and GIRL we seem to have a pattern as my kids would say

[NewYorkmom]

I will have boy(5), girl (3), boy (1) and a girl on the way in December. My lifestyle/diet is very boy friendly. With my first daughter I was dieting and running a lot. This current pregnancy I followed the low everything diet.

[Mrs_P]

Thanks girls

Seems comforting a little to know that massively long runs of boys are not that common still seems like a girl is impossible for me though