Help put things into perspective. BG pair a rare lightning strike or lotto ticket?

[Trike3]

Mumofsix... How do you do it?!? YES seeing families like yours frighten me! It takes a hell of a woman to raise that many men. I don't think is be up for the job.

[SamS_TTCPink]

Mumofsix... How do you do it?!? YES seeing families like yours frighten me! It takes a hell of a woman to raise that many men. I don't think is be up for the job.

We often get asked that question, and I don't really know some days! We sort of "just do it". Our lives are crazy busy with school drop off and picks ups and their many different sports, although when people say "what have you been up to?" we usually say "nothing!"

My husband is hopeless with remembering what they all have on what days and where they're all going to be at a certain time, so luckily I do all the running around! We usually have 1 or 2 or sometimes 4 extra kids here on weekends too hen hey have friends stay over. I believe once you have 3 or 4 though, the rest just slot in and you don't really notice being any busier. They do eat ALOT though! Lol!

[atomic sagebrush]

Maybe it's just the negative-nacy in me, but the pigeon pair seems more common when the girl comes first, not the boy. probably just me being pessimistic.

ever so slightly more common, but still pretty darn close to spot on 50-50. Here is a thread about it http://genderdreaming.com/forum/gend...body-know.html

My husband is older boy, younger girl PP

[atomic sagebrush]

I know tons of families with a BG PP. More than I do with a GB set (I think, I'd have to count).

Last time I checked, the lotto wasn't better than 50-50 (when you count your swaying tactics). So I'd say stick to swaying and hoping

I really do think your chances are pretty good. People get BG all the time and I'd guess less than 5% of them are swaying. So even without swaying, your chances would be decent. Add in swaying and I think your chances are fairly good. Same for any other swayers. It might be harder to think positive for a fourth child to be a girl. But with hope and swaying, I think the chances are pretty "good" for success

I'd quantify 70% "good" in swaying world. If start point is 50-50, adding 20% in either direction is pretty awesome, in my opinion. I'm not sure about current sway stats, and someone might just see 70 and notice the 30 opposites. But in terms of chances, getting to 70% is good

(Just looked and it looks like custom plans are running 63%...my guessing sucks. Lol. But 63 is 13% or more from no swaying...that's great!)

Well, it's really not fair to hold up the custom plans because a lot of the custom sway people have health issues, age issues, are on medication or other stuff that makes swaying more difficult from the get go (hence why they purchase a custom sway plan). I prefer that people go off the general stats of the site because those are more what the average person can expect.

For those of us with 2-3-4-5 of one gender, the starting point is probably closer to what the opposite gender swayers are getting. So we are probably going from being as much as 70% (or more) set for blue, to even 63% at worst likely to get a girl and hey that's fantastic.

[hotdogz&boyz]

^^I didn't mean to imply those were the stats for everyone...just the quickest ones I could get my hands on (they were in the chat box and I was lazy!) I really didn't even think about that aspect, the potential issues custom plans might navigate. If "everyman" swayers numbers are even higher...all the better! Lol.

[Trike3]

Off topic question: when I look at my list of posts under "My Posts" why does this one have a picture of a little envelope?

[atomic sagebrush]

I believe it means it either has unread posts, or no unread posts.

Somewhere (I think it's at the bottom of the main forum page) there is something called "icon legend" and you can look up what the icons mean.

[atomic sagebrush]

^^I didn't mean to imply those were the stats for everyone...just the quickest ones I could get my hands on (they were in the chat box and I was lazy!) I really didn't even think about that aspect, the potential issues custom plans might navigate. If "everyman" swayers numbers are even higher...all the better! Lol.

Everyman sway numbers are quite a bit higher and in fact the stats as a whole are misleading because our numbers were lower at the beginning. We've had significant improvement over the past 6-9 months but it will take time for that to be represented in the stats.

No worries, I have to consider all the people who may only read one or two threads and just be sure to explain as much sstuff as I can.

[pink_bean]

Accidentally disliked a post. Don't know how to undo sorry!

[atomic sagebrush]

Oh that's ok, we all do that from time to time.