Cravings and gender of baby

[MommyD]

I am DETERMINED not to find out the sex of this, my third baby. dh wanted to know with both of our first two and as this is our last I want to know what it feels like to have a surprise and also to try and guess which I'm having.

Anyone get particular cravings with a particular sex of child? I am craving fresh pineapple and cream cheese (not together) and unlike my first two pregnancies have completely gone off coffee - I used to allow myself one big latte a day with the other two and I can't stomach it with this one.

[lunavix]

I have no practical advice to offer, just when I was pregnant with ds, all I ate was fruit, I hated coffee and alcohol (not that I was drinking much ;) and well.. he's a ds!

[wild]

branston pickle = BOY

[MommyD]

grapefruit juice = boy (both my last two pregnancies, couldn't get enough of the stuff!) ?

[Potty1]

Oranges - boy
Full fat milk - big boy
Cream cakes (especially fresh cream horns with strawberry jam and chocolate on the top) - big girl

[LydiaN]

MommyD - I've been eating tons of pineapple and cream cheese, and coffee was the first thing to make me sick! (It was like the exorcist- not pretty)
Anyway, sonographer at 20 week scan said she was as positive as can be that I'm having a baby girl. (We saw her bits and would agree!)
Have also had a sweet tooth for first time in my life, and also been eating a braeburn apple a day (has to be braeburn!)

[misdee]

Well i have cravings the smell of things that cant be eaten. car exhaust fumes, candles that have been extinguised, and burning paper. someone had a bonfire the other night and i thought it smelt heavenly. usually all of the above make me feeel really sick.

is that just odd?

[twiglett]

sex = girl

come within 2 foot of me and I'll shriek = boy

[milge]

Sweet cravings/tooth=girl
savoury cravings/tooth=boy

[blueteddy]

I craved sweet things during my last pregnancy & had a boy!

[KateandtheGirls]

Twiglett, both of mine were girls, and your theory was true in my case!

[MommyD]

I could not touch curry for 9 months with both my boys. Love stuffing myself with sag aloo this time round and can even manage a simple chicken tikka.

[Flossam]

I loved strawberries and brauburn apples and fruit and vegatables. Went right off coffed and also had a strange idea that marmite and chicken and ham paste would be the best combination in a sandwich! I had a boy (also another old wives tale is that DP/DH will put weight on along side you if it is a boy, lets just say I shouldnt be the only one on a diet this january!)

[smileyragdoll]

Went completely OFF coffee, v extreme nausea
Craved Porridge, still cant face it now after nearly six months.

= Boy

[cupcakes]

Boy - cravings for savoury, in particular salt and vinegar hula hoops. Also satsumas and hot cross buns!
Girl - sweets, chocolate. Also diet coke with lemon!

[Petall]

Chips, mashed potato during first trimester and then fruit salad, completely off coffee, but lots of tea = Girl
Craved coffee and sweeter foods = Boy

[PotPourri]

I had all the signs of a boy - all up front bump, savory cravings, all the mad things like how a wedding ring swung when held above the bump, a 'feeling' that it was a boy. Lo and behold, 3 weeks ago to the day our little girl popped out. On returning home one of my first tasks was to remove all the boys clothes from her bedroom unit, LOL! My sister has 4 and the fourth is a boy, but her pregnancies were all exactly as above.

So, I think the only way to tell is to see it for yourself...

[walliamsbabysmum]

Crunchy fruit and veg all the time with ds (still put 3.5 stone onto my 8 stone frame ) and stodgy cakes and pastries with dd.

[Gem13]

Roast beef (not keen normally), pickled onion Monster Munch, chocolate milkshakes, shortbread and cream cakes both times.

1 = DS
2 = DD!

but DS was more roast beef and DD was more cream cakes.

[blueteddy]

Ice cream = ds1
Haribo jelly sweets = ds2

[mardynow]

cheese, yoghurt, full fat sterilised milk- 2 litres a DAY - pork scratchings and liver (don't normally like it) = boy

[singsong]

Had gallons of parsley sauce over everything.
Went off coffee and cheese (which I usually love).
Had a boy.

[NewbarnsleygirlWalliams]

Apples. I ate about 4 or 5 a day and I drank gallons of Appletise and ate tons of Asda's apple flavoured laces! = Girl

[bolekilolek]

sour stuff :pickles, sauercraut, lemons, sour orintal food = BOY sweets = GIRL !!!! Old saying says: girl: you look lika a big whale I did !! ( she takes all beauty from mother in pregnancy) ... boy: mum to be looks beautifull and well - compact .. in pregnancy GOOD LUCK !!!

[lilsmum]

my cravings were mars bars (too sickly normally!!) and had a serious thing for pork pies (yuk!!!) and i had a girl

[pinkmagic1]

Craved anything with cheese in it, cheese on toast, macaroni cheese, coliflower cheese etc. Went completely off meat, especially chicken. I couldn't even look at it without feeling sick! I also took to having milk in my coffee which is something I have never done and don't now. I had a boy.