Were you sicker with a boy or girl?

[Mars]

I know I know, everyone is different but I am starting to think there maybe something in this.

My first two pregnancies I had nausea throughout the 1st trimester but never vomited. Most symptoms went away by 13 weeks.
This pregnancy I didn't get any symptoms until 8 weeks then I got nausea and vomited twice. Symptoms seemed to have disappeared until this week at 13.5weeks were I have vomited twice in two days, both times straight after tea. It is so different to my first two pregnancies which makes me wonder if some girl hormones are floating around in there.

So were you sicker with boys or girls?

[XXforhubby]

I don't know what I'm having yet, but I am definitely sicker this time around! It set in at 4 weeks and is all day sickness where eating actually makes it worse! I joke that this baby doesn't like anything I choose to eat! I dry heave every time I brush my teeth and have vomited due to smells either good or bad. I had to get medication to be able to eat and feel human again!

With DS1 it set in at 8 weeks. I threw up a lot until I realized eating smaller meals can help. It went away by 13 weeks. DS2 I had the dizzy type of nausea and needed medication to be able to function. It lasted from 6weeks until 20weeks!


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[XXforhubby]

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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[WantALittleBlue]

I have 2 girls and i am currently 29 weeks pregnant with boy#2, i had g,b,g,b and for me my girl pregnancies were much worse than the boy ones especially my first. I only threw up with my girls not the boys. For me there was a difference between the boys and girls in terms of nausea and morning sickness but i know quite a few people with same gender babies and completely opposite symptoms, so you never know.

[Ugee]

I felt generally more ill in this pregnancy at the start with constant nausea and flu like symptoms. With DS2 I was sick every day for 17 weeks tho and with DS1 I felt rough in the morning and then evening. So no pattern with any of mine.

[tweedledeedum]

Super sick with my girl and felt great with my boys.

[bunnywabbit]

My sister was very nauseous and sick with DD1 but had no issue with DD2 whatsoever.

[The Anchor]

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.

[sisterplease]

I've had 5 boys and 1 girl. My daughter is number 5. With first 4 boys I got progressively more ill. I suffered with more symptoms each pregnancy and the sickness lasted longer than the previous. With my daughter, I waited anxiously for the symptoms to start...and they never did. Flew through that pregnancy blissfully. Then number 6 came along and I knew within the first couple of weeks that he was a boy! That pregnancy was the worst of all!! I'm currently pregnant with number 7 and this baby has been just as kind as my daughter was. 15 weeks now and it's hard to believe how well I've been again. Don't know gender yet but I'm very interested!! :-)

[Mars]

How interesting! It seems to be split. I thought that as I'm not working this time and can relax and eat when I want etc I would feel great as the last two pregnancies I felt crap as soon as I woke up. Nausea until around 10am. This pregnancy mornings have been fine but nights around dinner time is when j nausea and now vomitting!