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I saw an article on a study that states you are more likely to be squeamish with certain foods and smells when pregnant with a boy because they are weaker as embryos and it adds protection. Anyone experience this? I was super bothered by meat and coffee and tons of smells with my 3 boys and this time around i had zero issues with it but no clue what i am having yet. Were you less squeamish when pregnant with a girl??
It stated it has no relation to nausea in general but the reactions to smells and foods.
No for me much much so much worse with 3 of my girls . . . . To the point I couldn't do much and was totally miserable. All smells. All foods. Bad memories.
My friend, while pregnant with her first daughter, had to get rid of her mild Glade plugins she had just purchased, and her husband had to cook Thanksgiving dinner in their garage! Luckily for them, the garage had a stove!
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I was only squeamish with cooking fish inside and coffee with both DS's.
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I doubt there is a correlation.
overactive sense of smell during pregnancy has to do with your sinus over production. Every mucous membrane in your body goes into over drive from your lady parts to your nose. Keeping your sinuses clear and in my case with antihistamines gets rid of the bloodhound nose that will turn you off to certain smells.
I don't buy the sinus thing. I have been sick with horrendous sinus symptoms for over half this pregnancy...tons and tons of drainage and such and zero issues with smells. It should have been worse than ever this time according to that.
I think its like the whole hyperemesis thing where its only a small percentage likely to be girl over boy. Obviously not a smoking gun to be able to say its a girl for sure.
Symptoms don't predict gender.
I was plenty squeamish with my daughter. And sons LOL. Pregnancy makes me squeamish. One day (when I was pg with my daughter) we were driving in a Jeep with a gas can in it and the smell of the gas almost made me sick. My husband couldn't even smell it. :)
If there is anything grosser than trying to cook a turkey when pregnant I don't know what it is. I still get a little revolted every year just from the memory. I think we're having ham this year hahaQuote:
Originally Posted by XXforhubby
This was actually a valid study. My friend showed it to me. Its like the people who eat breakfast kind of thing. They did find a correlation and a higher rate of boys in women who were offended by smells in the study. I wouldn't even bring it up if it was just some person saying it.
Further thoughts - this is one of those things that just sounds so sensible but when I stopped to think about it, the window of "harmful exposures to chemicals/microbes" that would differ between a boy vs girl baby would be so small that it would be absolutely impossible for the body to have evolved such a mechanism. If a chemical or microorganism is harmful, it's HARMFUL to all babies everywhere regardless of gender and your body would be "set" to avoid all of that. It wouldn't be able to make this complex mathematical equation wherein "Boys are X % more likely than girls to be permanently damaged by this, that, or the other thing and thus I must be X% more likely to avoid them in a male pregnancy"
Much MORE sensible is the idea that anything that could potentially be harmful to baby on board regardless of gender, we wanna avoid it.
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Originally Posted by Rosie85
Is that directed at me? Sorry if I was short, my point is that when people navel gaze at their pregnancy symptoms there is simply too much individual variation and variation even between one person's individual pregnancies to reliably use it to predict gender. I use the shorthand of "symptoms don't predict gender" but that's really what I'm saying.
I have actually heard of the idea before and here's an article about it New gender predictor during pregnancy: How grossed out are you? - Parents - TODAY.com
I wonder if the OCD/anxiety issue has more relevance than any difference between what gender these gals were pg with - if they're more likely to be grossed out or even germaphobic to start with, they'd continue to be more likely to be grossed out even more so when pregnant and could this possibly help XY in some way??? Maybe. But I do not think the idea that women are ok eating 3 bites of toxic waste if pg with a girl, 2 bites if a boy idea the way they were making it sound holds water because it just seems more likely we'd be "set" to avoid toxic waste totally when pg (kind of hard to explain, hope this makes sense)
No i am not bothered at all. I just meant i didnt bring it up because i have hope or anything. ..just something i read that was a valid study and not me grasping. Lol. I dont believe the whole symptoms thing at all but just found this interesting and wondered if it holds any truth like they say. I may have had zero squeamishness this time but i still think its another boy.