Old Wives Tales

[mommymachine]

I agree I'm having a boy and someone said to me, ohh your carrying too high for a boy. I put nothing into it as we did HT and had 2 u/s confirm boy

That's so silly!!! DS3 practically lived in my ribcage!

[atomic sagebrush]

I had 20 weeks of Hyperemesis Gravidarum on both my boys, definitely knew I was having a second boy when it kicked in at 6 weeks. My friends mother had HG on her two boys then she had her girl and she didn't know she was pregnant until she was 10 weeks gone. She said she breezed through the entire pregnancy - would love if we had a successful sway that I could have an enjoyable pregnancy!

Not true, you can have HG with boy or girl pregnancies. In fact, studies have shown it's actually about 3% more likely with a female pregnancy.

[atomic sagebrush]

When people say they felt great with their boys and sick with their girls, I think "Really? OR is that in your head because of the OWT?" Is there any truth to that specific OWT? Where did it come from, and why?

This has been very well researched and it has been shown definitively that while there is a very slightly higher number of women with a rare and very severe form of morning sickness called hyperemesis gravidium, there is ZERO correlation between just plain morning sickness and baby's gender. and even with the HG, it is only a 3% difference so many people are getting HG with boys or girls.

Sheer speculation alert, I suspect that back in the days when people didn't have as many food choices and had little/no medical treatment for morning sickness, it is very likely that any woman with severe, or even not that severe MS, who couldn't eat enough, were probably more likely to lose an XY early on in pregnancy due to malnutrition (because XY need more nutrients from moment of conception onward) and so it might have appeared that MS = girls but it was just a weird kind of coincidence.

[dreaming4pink]

This has been very well researched and it has been shown definitively that while there is a very slightly higher number of women with a rare and very severe form of morning sickness called hyperemesis gravidium, there is ZERO correlation between just plain morning sickness and baby's gender. and even with the HG, it is only a 3% difference so many people are getting HG with boys or girls.

Sheer speculation alert, I suspect that back in the days when people didn't have as many food choices and had little/no medical treatment for morning sickness, it is very likely that any woman with severe, or even not that severe MS, who couldn't eat enough, were probably more likely to lose an XY early on in pregnancy due to malnutrition (because XY need more nutrients from moment of conception onward) and so it might have appeared that MS = girls but it was just a weird kind of coincidence.

That makes great sense!

[dreaming4pink]

So does MS seem to worsen as we get older? Everything else worsens as we get older, especially my energy and metabolism (or lack thereof)

[Nahri]

I can tell you that this time I fit the OWT of girl problem skin and hair when I didnt have those issues with my DS. But I am a different weight, more health problems, and of course jacked up hormones from already one pregnancy plus being older. So many factors too hard to prove! Granted a few old wives tales have been researched into a semi-theory like heartburn and hair. The tale goes if you have massive HB your baby will be born with a full head of hair I think the stats on it are 80% when a study was actually done. It held true for me the first time but it hasnt been bad this time around.

[hopper]

Not true, you can have HG with boy or girl pregnancies. In fact, studies have shown it's actually about 3% more likely with a female pregnancy.

Oh I know you can have it on both and after having it both my first and second pregnancy I've been told it's practically a given I will have it on subsequent children. I'd just love if I had a sickness free pregnancy like my friends mother had on her only girl lol, dreaming out loud!
Actually the HG was the main reason I was so sure and convinced I was having a girl on DS1! Everyone said HG is way more likely when you are carrying a girl so I took it as fact, naively!! And thus began my GD story lol. I often wonder if I hadn't been convinced I was expecting a girl would I want one so very badly.

Oh well,one good thing about HG, it means you look forward to labour cause it means the pregnancy is finally over!! Give me a 100% drug free labour over 20 weeks of HG any day!

[hopper]

This has been very well researched and it has been shown definitively that while there is a very slightly higher number of women with a rare and very severe form of morning sickness called hyperemesis gravidium, there is ZERO correlation between just plain morning sickness and baby's gender. and even with the HG, it is only a 3% difference so many people are getting HG with boys or girls.

Sheer speculation alert, I suspect that back in the days when people didn't have as many food choices and had little/no medical treatment for morning sickness, it is very likely that any woman with severe, or even not that severe MS, who couldn't eat enough, were probably more likely to lose an XY early on in pregnancy due to malnutrition (because XY need more nutrients from moment of conception onward) and so it might have appeared that MS = girls but it was just a weird kind of coincidence.

I joined an online support group during my first bout of HG, it got me through the darker days and we all had great fun speculating what genders we would have. Of the 13 women due within 3 months either side of my delivery there were 7 girls, 6 boys including my little man and one delivery of B/G twins so just slightly more girls than boys.

My friend had her second baby late last year, she had a girl first and breezed through pregnancy. The second time she had slight MS and became so sure she was having a boy because the sickness was something she associated with my pregnancies. I did try to tell her not to get her hopes up as I remembered the feeling after having DS1. She had another little girl. Just shows that no two pregnancies are the same just as no two children are the same either.

[atomic sagebrush]

So does MS seem to worsen as we get older? Everything else worsens as we get older, especially my energy and metabolism (or lack thereof)

No, didn't for me! I had the worst MS with my first pg and then the least with my second, and then my last pg I had the least MS of all.

I had a pretty easy pg and birth with my last pg despite being as old as Methuselah with that one.

[atomic sagebrush]

I can tell you that this time I fit the OWT of girl problem skin and hair when I didnt have those issues with my DS. But I am a different weight, more health problems, and of course jacked up hormones from already one pregnancy plus being older. So many factors too hard to prove! Granted a few old wives tales have been researched into a semi-theory like heartburn and hair. The tale goes if you have massive HB your baby will be born with a full head of hair I think the stats on it are 80% when a study was actually done. It held true for me the first time but it hasnt been bad this time around.

I keep meaning to look into that as I've had wicked heartburn and bald babies, but I did hear there had been a study done. I suspect it's probably hormones = hair growth and also = heartburn and not hairgrowth = heartburn.