Another proof about weight and conceiving girls

[pinksapphire]

I know this has been discussed what seems like a billion times over but I just feel the need to post this. Every single woman that I know that is very overweight has girls. All girls. A woman at work just had her second girl (the sex of the baby was not known prior to her birth) and both her and her husband are very overweight. Maybe it's the fact that both parents are overweight and not just the mother, I don't know, but I see it time and time again. I work in a school so I see a lot of pregnant women here and it happens without fail every time! And yet here we are all trying to lose weight to conceive a girl when I see the exact opposite happening all the time.

Now I know people can say that they are thin and have girls of their own so I know it happens. I, myself, am thin and active and conceived 1 girl and 2 boys naturally but I just can't help but think that I'm killing myself now for nothing! I lost about 3 lbs. or so and I'm small to begin with but I was at my lowest weight when I was conceived DS2.

I don't know. Just wanted to vent that I just don't know if I one can really control it! Maybe a lot more has to do with the husbands and we just don't see them as often when we are looking at the mothers and their children.

[Coccinelle33]

i have always saw the same thing... i did lose like 10 pounds when ttc my dd though and with all my boys i was my same weight. im small to start.

[atomic sagebrush]

I know this has been discussed what seems like a billion times over but I just feel the need to post this. Every single woman that I know that is very overweight has girls. All girls. A woman at work just had her second girl (the sex of the baby was not known prior to her birth) and both her and her husband are very overweight. Maybe it's the fact that both parents are overweight and not just the mother, I don't know, but I see it time and time again. I work in a school so I see a lot of pregnant women here and it happens without fail every time! And yet here we are all trying to lose weight to conceive a girl when I see the exact opposite happening all the time.

Now I know people can say that they are thin and have girls of their own so I know it happens. I, myself, am thin and active and conceived 1 girl and 2 boys naturally but I just can't help but think that I'm killing myself now for nothing! I lost about 3 lbs. or so and I'm small to begin with but I was at my lowest weight when I was conceived DS2.

I don't know. Just wanted to vent that I just don't know if I one can really control it! Maybe a lot more has to do with the husbands and we just don't see them as often when we are looking at the mothers and their children.

Being very heavy and very thin BOTH sway pink because you're less fertile when you're very thin and very heavy. People in the middle ranges of weight are more likely to have optimal fertility and therefore, more boys. But of course I can't advise people to gain 100 lbs. to sway pink.

Most of the women I see/know with all girls are either very heavy or very thin, no in between. The interesting thing is that the two gals I know who have lost massive amounts of weight (one from having her stomach stapled) went from having all boys to having all girls.

[pinksapphire]

i have always saw the same thing... i did lose like 10 pounds when ttc my dd though and with all my boys i was my same weight. im small to start.

I know the idea is to be either heavy or very, very thin so maybe I need to lose another 5-8 pounds myself. I don't know. I'm clearly frustrated!!! LOL It's also b/c, like I said earlier, I was at my smallest weight (smallest of all three conceptions) when we conceived DS2 which was pretty small - size 0. Grrrrrr!!!! Help, I need a rice cake!!!! LOL

[pinksapphire]

Being very heavy and very thin BOTH sway pink because you're less fertile when you're very thin and very heavy. People in the middle ranges of weight are more likely to have optimal fertility and therefore, more boys. But of course I can't advise people to gain 100 lbs. to sway pink.

Most of the women I see/know with all girls are either very heavy or very thin, no in between. The interesting thing is that the two gals I know who have lost massive amounts of weight (one from having her stomach stapled) went from having all boys to having all girls.

We must have been writing at the same time! LOL

Okay so I just have to continue to starve myself and work out like mad (while working full-time and being a full-time mom as well) but that equals stress too. Then again, I was stressed when we conceived our angel DD too so maybe stress works toward pink in my case. ???

F R U S T R A T E D ! ! !

[Babushka]

Hi pinksapphire, I feel your pain, sister! I know and see heaps of overweight women with all daughters too. AND i have a very very thin girlfriend who has all daughters, so it makes sense. ANd I am stuck in the middle! There is nothing for us to do but stress that we aren't fat enough and not skinny enough! Now that i am swaying myself i do find myself analysing every single lady and then poking my head into the pram to see what gender they have in there! It's like I am running some kind of survey in my brain! I am officially a weirdo!

[nuthinbutpink]

Well, if estrogen levels sway, it would make sense that obese women have more girls because fat cells are a primary source of estrogen, and in obese people, the increased number of fat cells can increase the overall levels of estrogen. In women, another internal cause of high estrogen levels is peri-menopause, which beings about five to seven years before menopause. During this time, estrogen levels can become higher before they decrease drastically with menopause.(the older you are, the more likely you are to have a girl too so again, estrogen dominance lines up with swaying here)

The swaying you guys do on here is like an extreme sport. It probably depends on how your body handles the change in diet and if in reaction, starts to convert muscle to fat and thus increase your estrogen levels.

[ELP]

Now that i am swaying myself i do find myself analysing every single lady and then poking my head into the pram to see what gender they have in there!!

Lol, I do this aswell

[atomic sagebrush]

Hi pinksapphire, I feel your pain, sister! I know and see heaps of overweight women with all daughters too. AND i have a very very thin girlfriend who has all daughters, so it makes sense. ANd I am stuck in the middle! There is nothing for us to do but stress that we aren't fat enough and not skinny enough! Now that i am swaying myself i do find myself analysing every single lady and then poking my head into the pram to see what gender they have in there! It's like I am running some kind of survey in my brain! I am officially a weirdo!

Yeah, I do this too! I guess I am the exception because the people I see walking around the store with all girls are almost always rail thin and very glamourous looking.

I do know three people who are on the heavy side and have all girls, but I know one of them habitually starts a crash diet trying to lose weight before she gets pregnant. But my great-grandma who had 6 girls was always thin as is my mom and stepmom.

I WISH I had the answers to everything and that I could offer a guarantee but all I can do is offer the info that I can uncover and try to come up with the methods that will work the best for the majority of people. I think there will always be swaying opposites unfortunately but I believe with all my heart and soul that every one of us CAN conceive a baby girl and most can conceive a baby boy.

[ELP]

You have already done a great job AS, and have helped start a fantastic forum where all these new ideas can be brought up and investigated in a fresh new way, another set of heading over