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I know you can’t go by pregnancy symptoms to determine sex but I’m almost 7 weeks pregnant with this unexpected pregnancy and I’m having the weird taste in my mouth that I had with both my boys. I can’t help but think this is another boy.
I keep thinking my symptoms would be different it was a girl.
Did people who have different gender babies have the same symptoms by any chance ?
Thanks
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Gender can't influence symptoms this early because the Y chromosome isn't even activated yet so boy and girls are the same at this point. I've only had boys but my first two pregnancies were similar while my third was very different. I've seen ladies here convinced they're having another boy because symptoms are the same yet they end up having a girl! Atomic says it all the time so I will echo it here: symptoms do not predict gender!
That’s interesting - when does the Y chromosome become activated?
Yes my two most similar pregnancies were my second son and my daughter. My other three boys were all drastically different from each other and from the 2 that were the same!
Having the weird taste in your mouth has nothing to do with baby gender. I absolutely had that with some of my boys and with my girl too. It is the hormones of pregancny itself and not the baby's gender-related hormones that causes that.
technically it's the 6th week but it doesn't really start making hormones and stuff till the 10th week. Up till that point, we all are "girls". Then once the Y chromosome starts churning out the testosterone (which is actually a miniscule amount, see below) the "clitoris" grows into a penis, the "ovaries" move down and become testicles.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ohdeer
We all experience our strongest pregnancy symptoms when the baby himself is not even making much testosterone. The amount of testosterone a baby boy makes at the end of pregnancy is several times greater than the amount they make early on. So when people assume "testosterone is making me have these symptoms therefore I must be pregnant with a boy" at 4,6,8,10 weeks - that just can't be the case.
I had confirmed XY embryos implanted from an IVF cycle and had the same early symptoms I had with my DD, if it helps. I'm actually currently stressing because I had decently present symptoms with all but this and my second pregnancy (and my second was a surprise very close to my DD's both, so me not noticing symptoms was likely me not sure what was PP versus pregnancy). Though pleased to hear strange taste in the mouth is a symptom many of you had -- I AM having that every morning and don't really recall that with my other pregnancies.
I didn't have that with my first pregnancy only with my subsequent ones, and it seemed to get worse each time. :/Quote:
Originally Posted by Throwaway_panther