Were you sicker with a boy or girl?

[True Blue]

I suffered with terrible nausea during my pregnancy with my girls. Actually I'm really not looking forward to that part again !!

I'm holding onto the hope that every pregnancy is different and I may not suffer again or as bad

[atomic sagebrush]

THey have done studies and found NO differnce in morning sickness rates in most pregnancies. With a very rare form of extremely severe morning sickness called hyperemesis gravidarium there was a 3% greater chance it was a girl. That's ALL. Measly 3% and ONLY in the most severe type of morning sickness.

DO NOT read anything into this whatsoever, I have seen so many people have their hearts broken believing this one.

I had the worst morning sickness with 3 of my boys, and then barely any with one boy and my girl.

[atomic sagebrush]

I would guess that with the more pregnancies you have it could either keep getting worse or get better. I know some people where it got better with more pregnancies and some like us where it progressively gets worse.


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For me there seemed to be no rhyme or reason:

DS 1 - very bad, threw up every day
DS 2- barely any
DS 3 - terrible but never threw up
DS 4 terrible and also had diarrhea 6-8 times a day for most of first tri
DD barely any

[atomic sagebrush]

I think there is actually some science behind it:

Women who are pregnant with girls may indeed experience more nausea. … Several large investigations have found that women afflicted with severe morning sickness, called hyperemesis gravidarum, in the first trimester are more likely to be carrying a female fetus. Doctors, concluded one study, “can say with confidence to a woman who has hyperemesis gravidarum that she has a 55.7 percent chance of delivering a girl.” The sicker she is, the more likely this is to be true: a 2004 study by epidemiologists at the University of Washington found that women who were extremely ill (hospitalized for three days or more) had odds of having a girl that were 80 percent higher than those of women who did not experience severe nausea. A hormone called human chorionic gonadotropin may be to blame: female fetuses produce more of it than males.

But that is ONLY in the very most severe type of morning sickness. Studies have shown no difference in rates of sickness for people who do not have HG.

[atomic sagebrush]

I know of at least 3 other gals on the site who had worse sickness with their boys than their girls!

[True Blue]

I shouldn't read this thread the memories are awful

[Georgia_Peach]

I have had 2 boys and just had my baby girl. I was mildly nauseous with the boys but SICK as a dog with her. I couldn't even keep water down first the first trimester. I had to get a prescription. So I'm a believer in this old wives tale.. might not be true for all but me it was.

[atomic sagebrush]

I shouldn't read this thread the memories are awful

I was thinking that exact same thing as I was writing about this. Wondering how I ever managed to do it 3 times being so sick like that. :/

[PrimalMamma]

Pregnancies can differ vastly regardless of what gender you're carrying. I place NO baring on symptoms & I'm
quite vocal about this as you might have seen in other threads!! I am 3 weeks off having Boy#3 & all of my pregnancies have been vastly different. I had about a week of feeling "off" in the mornings with DS1, 9 days of miserable sickness morning to afternoon with DS2 & a whole 12 weeks of pretty much 24 hour sickness including some vomiting with DS3. I also had varying amounts of swelling in each pregnancy, I had cystic acne in the first 2 pregnancies & have the clearest, most glowing skin of my entire life in this one. I had greasy hair he the first 2 times & unbelievably dry hair this time... There are lots of other symptoms that have been totally, TOTALLY different including very hormonally related things like the amount of vaginal discharge. The per cent of women getting girls when they suffer with Hyperemesis is only a tiny, tiny majority. In fact a friend of mine had Hyperemesis with her first 2 pregnancies all the way through - she was still vomiting in labour. Those 2 were boy then girl. Her 3rd pregnancy she didn't have it at all, & had another girl. Sorry not trying to rain on anyone's parade but I see & hear women getting their hopes up ALL the time about symptoms & they have no baring on gender. That's not to say you won't get your desired gender, but if you do whatever symptoms you have has nothing to do with predicting it.


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[atomic sagebrush]

^^^ this times a million!

Exactly the point - it's not that anyone wants to spoil anyone's fun or anything like that, it's that people are devastated by these guessing games either false hopes that are later dashed, or false despair where they spend months obsessing over whether they like mustard or not, only to get their DG anyway.

Even if it works 15% of the time for someone, THAT MEANS IT DOESN'T WORK. Because for our purposes, if it isn't 100% accurate, all it does is tie people up in knots for something that is not a guarantee anyway.