to think that morning sickness effects both women carrying girls and boys equally as bad?

[tryingtobemarypoppins]

Read an article saying that bad morning sickess is more likely if your carrying a girl.......

www.guardian.co.uk/uk/1999/dec/10/2

[bigchris]

definitely worse when I was carrying dd as opposed to ds

[ramalama]

It's bollocks

I have 2 dds and 1 ds

sickness with ds was by far the worst

[Worzsel]

I was so sick with DD.

Not much atall with Ds

[purepurple]

no, I had it bad with DS and then DD.Both times were hell on earth.

[Hormonesnomore]

I have 2 dds & 1 ds. I was never actually sick, but the nausea & hungover feeling was pretty bad. I definitely found it worse with ds & it lasted longer, about 20 weeks iirc - about 12 weeks with dds.

[feedthegoat]

I lost a stone in the first 3 months of pregnancy with horrible morning sickness. I had ds.

[bigchris]

I had morning sickness with ds for 3 months

but with dd I had morning sickness all the way through

[Reginamygina]

I had bearable morning sickness with my first 2 DDs. This time (I'm 9 weeks pregnant) is awful. It's all-day nausea, horrid.

Will let you know in about 3 months if it's a he or a she in there!

[traceybath]

Well with my 2 DS's no real morning sickness.

However felt sick and was sick this pregnancy until about 17 weeks and according to the scan its a girl.

So for me it may hold true.

[bruffin]

Definitely worse with DD compared to DS

[LaTrucha]

We've had a lot of polls like this on the hyperemesis webstie. We've never found it to be true.

[TigerFeet]

I'm currently pg with a dd and have been very sick all the way through.

With my first dd I was hardly sick at all.

It's bollocks imvho. It will be true for some but not for all. About 50:50 I'd say

[MillyR]

I was worse with DD than DS.

[MrsMattie]

Hmmm. I had what I thought was bad morning sickness with DS. Then had hyperemesis with DD. God, that was hideous.

[Mintyyflavourcondom]

I had a dd and a ds. Lots of all-day sickness with both. Although with dd, I really could not eat (and lost a lot of weight) but with ds the sickness was alleviated by eating.

[Kiwinyc]

What rubbish. I had dreadful morning sickness first time around, and none at all second time around. I have two girls.

[nellynaemates]

Can I just point out that that article is 10 years old, anyone looked for anything more up to date?

[mum23monkeys]

ds1 - no morning sickness
ds2 - god-awful morning sickness
dd - no morning sickness

It's twaddle and an old wives tale.

[PeppermintPatty]

But if you read the article - with bad morning sickness you're only a bit more likely to have a girl.

The male-female ratio was 44.3 to 55.7. This is statisitcally significant but obviously loads of people having boys still have bad morning sickness and loads of people having girls don't.

A straw poll amongst you and your mates or on a thread like will prove very little as the sample size isn't large enough.

[Baisey]

Yes its exactly like saying if you suffer from heartburn/indigestion you are going to have a hairy baby.
With DS I wasnt sick at all, this time round im as sick as a dog, but have no idea what im having, so we'll soon see!!

[psychomum5]

I do think there is a lot to be said with having different morning sickness with opposite genders tho.

mine was bad with the girls

truely fucking awful with my boys, to the point of losing a stone during pregnancy, and the sonographer stating that scanning a concave belly was most bizarre!

[troutpout]

I had it both times...slightly worse with dd

[Tidey]

I have a DD and a DS, I felt sick occasionally in both pgs but never actually threw up at all, for which I'm very grateful as some of you sound like you've been through hellish times.

[Linnet]

My mum had a boy and a girl and didn't get morning sickness with either.

I have two girls and didn't get morning sickness with either of them.

My cousin had a boy and a girl and had the most awful morning sickness imagineable.

so I would say it depends on the person rather than the sex of the baby.