Let's talk about blue sways.

What are the odds of having another boy or girl? : Ingender.com

Thanks for the pep talk ELP. Above is the link to the article on IG that refers to chances of boy/girl against birth order. I'm not sure how reputable the original study that's mentioned is but it does suggest it's from a longitudinal study of 6000 American families. I'm also not sure how well the original study has been interpreted for this article. The article does suggest that there is always a (slightly) higher chance of having a boy irrespective of number or gender of previous children. The only exception to this appears to be after having 2 girls :confused::sad:.

I'm not an expert in statistics and would love any thoughts or insights that others may have. I totally believe in swaying but I get discouraged thinking how pink friendly I'm already starting and then statistics going against me aswell.

Oh JConger, blue blue blue to you! Sending all the blue wishes your way, when do you find out?

MsMarie and Mia, here to a little, er, here's to a lotta blue luck to us in the near future! Still trying to learn to navigate the site. Do you ladies get notifications when someone replies to your post or just check back?

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Originally Posted by Katie.Z

Thank you so much for this encouragement! I am new around here and have been a bit discouraged reading about blue stats. I have two gorgeous girls but have dreamed of a boy long before I even had children. I know my chances after two girls aren't good as is. By the way, Atomic, do you have a theory or an opinion on why blue percentage goes down after two girls but not three. Can I beat the odds? I always wanted just two kids, but my heart still aches for that little boy.

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Katie, let me point out that this entire brouhaha that spawned this thread was because one due date group on here comprised of THREE blue swayers, all got girls. (one of them had some complicating factors that may have swayed strongly pink, BTW) They happened to be active posters so their opposites got an undue level of attention while simultaneously we had other less-active posters having successful blue sways but they just didn't get the attention that the others did.

In 2017 we have had 3 blue sways so far and they were all successful. a 4th has had a very promising ultrasound at 19 weeks but is staying Team Green for now.

Our stats have been very good IMO. There is nothing to be discouraged about. 66% over the lifetime of the site, over 200 people. This is good results!!

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Originally Posted by MiaMelb

Hey Katie, I'm in the same boat and have also read that article on birth order over on IG aswell. For some reason I find it really hard to shake the idea of being behind the eight ball when I'm already very pink friendly as it is. Feels like pushing water up a hill. Interested to see her response.

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But remember that article on birth order was NOT IN SWAYERS!! It was in people who were probably doing their normal thing (ya know, the stuff that had already gotten them 2 girls). It doesn't apply to us!

It's a miniscule statistical variation. It's not major and remember all those people were not swaying, they were living their normal lives and proably doing one BD on O (which doesn't work and actually sways pink) trying to get a boy!

I think we have this nut cracked and had some bad luck last year. Other years ahve been 70-80% success for blue with same approach!! :bluecheer:

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Originally Posted by Katie.Z

Oh JConger, blue blue blue to you! Sending all the blue wishes your way, when do you find out?

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Thank you! We are 16 weeks so should find out in a month. The thought raises my blood pressure and pulse lol. Trying to decide if we should find out or wait... it's so tough since I was disappointed hearing girl the last two times and this is most likely our last kiddo. I definitely don't want to be disappointed or cry again so I'm praying if we go green or find out! Thanks for being excited with us!

Thanks Atomic for this news! How exciting it's been 100% so far this year [emoji6]


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Thanks so much Atomic, that's the answer I was hoping for. Both my husband and I are very active in terms of exercise, we eat a ton of protein and have healthy diets. However with DD1 we DTD only once during fertile period, and DD2 was a suprise also from only 1 attempt. Additionally my husband is a smoker and did have low T at one point. It's encouraging to see the things I could do differently in the future to get the boy, and husband is already on the patch to quit. Nice to know the stats we discussed (odds of getting the same gender) do not apply to Swayers. It makes perfect sense that if you do what you've always done, you get the same results (unless of course you're lucky).

Jconger, I know the feeling all too well (crying over my girls). I think often about what I'll do the third time around, in terms of finding out gender or not until the big day. If you do decide to find out and want to share please do, or hopefully you'll want to shout it out to the world with happiness. :))

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Originally Posted by Katie.Z

Jconger, I know the feeling all too well (crying over my girls). I think often about what I'll do the third time around, in terms of finding out gender or not until the big day. If you do decide to find out and want to share please do, or hopefully you'll want to shout it out to the world with happiness. :))

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Thanks girl! I will most definitely share on here if we find out. And yes I hope I'm screaming and shouting and crying tears of joy lol.


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