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Why is absolutely everyone I know having baby boys!

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Needsomeadvice33 · 26/11/2022 21:51

I'm at that age where absolutely everyone I know is having kids. A large number are now on their 2nd kid. So me and my husband have no kids (happily childfree have 4 nephews no nieces) but we are so fascinated by the fact that absolutely nobody we know is having girls.
Literally in the last few years we are talking at least 30 boys and only 2 girls (one of which my friend told me she gender swayed for a girl and it took her like 10 months to get pregnant as she was actively avoiding ovulation).
It's became a joke that me and my husband say to eachother as soon as we hear of another pregnancy announcement "another boy then 😂".
Anyway I've been reading about the returning soldier effect where after World wars there's always far more boys born. There's a recent study regarding this.
Wonder if the pandemic has made men produce more y sperm 🤣.
Or is it perhaps because I'm at an age where women are actively tracking ovulation and with the popularity of ovulation sticks they are all having sex right at ovulation so more likely to produce boys. 🤔
Wonder what others make of this and are you all seeing the same.
Also seen there's a US nurse talking about it on tiktok.
nypost.com/2022/03/29/im-a-baby-nurse-heres-why-more-people-are-having-boys/

I think they should do a study to see if men produce more y sperm after having covid.

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Squirrelsnut · 27/11/2022 01:58

Around the time I had DS, my brother and two close friends had two girls each, ie 6 girls.

DuchessDandelion · 27/11/2022 01:54

Disclaimer: I am not Water Troll

DuchessDandelion · 27/11/2022 01:54

Something in the water, op.

Cakewineorgin · 27/11/2022 01:29

I think it is luck of the draw, but that being said I moved house to try to get a DS after having my DD. I noticed that there were only girls being born on our street and after talking to our neighbours, no boys had been born there during the 20 years they had lived there. We moved and I later had DS.

We bumped into our old neighbours 14 years later and this came up in conversation. There still had been no boy babies born since we moved. I know this is really just down to coincidence, but it certainly made me wonder. 🤷‍♀️

rickandmorts · 27/11/2022 00:57

Anecdotally I know of a lot more people having boys than girls at the minute! I'm due next week with a surprise but I'm 99.9% sure it's a boy 😁

AngeloMysterioso · 27/11/2022 00:48

Of the dozen or so women who were pregnant at the same time I was pregnant with DS2, I was the only one to have a boy. (Was kind of gutting at the time as I’d really been hoping for a daughter.)

Shoreditchintheafternoon · 27/11/2022 00:36

Me and my friends were having this conversation recently. Three boys in a row in our group in the last year. At work there is one woman who had a girl, the rest have been boys. In my family there's been no baby girls in years. It could just be coincidence of course and confirmation bias, but it's certainly interesting these different theories!

wombat1a · 27/11/2022 00:14

Dreamsoffreedomjoyandpeace · 26/11/2022 22:53

Male sperm are stronger so if there are X and Y sperm present the Y will be successful. Female sperm live longer so if you wait until a few days after ovulation, there are likely to only be X sperms present.

Neurodivergent women tend to have more boys. I don’t think that’s scientifically proven - just an observation.

That makes no sense whatsoever to me. If you wait a few days after then there will be only X present??? Wouldn't it make more sense to do it a few days before hand so there would only be X present later on?

MissDollyMix · 26/11/2022 23:06

It’s funny how these things always seem to go in runs. In one year at my DC’s primary school there are 60 kids split into 40 boys and 20 girls. Conversely in my NCT group of the 8 of us I was the only one to have a boy. Felt like everyone was having girls that summer! I very rarely met another mum with a boy. That’s played through to DS’s class- he was the only boy with a summer birthday.

Needsomeadvice33 · 26/11/2022 23:00

Hmm maybe it's weirdly just my circle then. It seems to strange thats its massively skewed towards boys. I know there's always more boys born than girls but surely not this much! It will be interesting to see the stats of this over the next few years.
At every gender reveal I always say boy and I always correct lol
I agree with the person upthread though! Hope it's not a bad omen!

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Tangled123 · 26/11/2022 22:53

I know of 9 local babies born since January last year, 5 have been girls and 4 have been boys. I know two women who are currently pregnant too. If both of those are boys, it’s a pretty even split, but going in favour of girls otherwise.

Dreamsoffreedomjoyandpeace · 26/11/2022 22:53

Folks · 26/11/2022 22:33

What does ovulation have to do with it?

I’m pretty sure the sperm dictates the sex?

Male sperm are stronger so if there are X and Y sperm present the Y will be successful. Female sperm live longer so if you wait until a few days after ovulation, there are likely to only be X sperms present.

Neurodivergent women tend to have more boys. I don’t think that’s scientifically proven - just an observation.

MargaretThursday · 26/11/2022 22:53

I think there's an aspect of coincidence and confirmation bias.

When dd1 was born they commented she was the only girl born that week at the hospital. Her infant school was 2:1 boy:girl. So I did wonder.
However when she got to juniors it evened out.
The juniors mostly came from 2 feeder infants.
So then I was talking to someone from the other infants and they commented that they'd been 2:1 the other way, and someone else said that there had been a rumour going round that one of the infants was better for girls, and the other was better for boys. So people had chosen accordingly. (low birth year so genuinely a choice)

Fleur405 · 26/11/2022 22:38

It’s coincidence. I have a 9 month old and go to various baby groups - it’s around a 50:50 mix of girls and boys in all of them. I’m sure it’s possible to see data on the number of girls and boys whose births were registered in 2020 and 2021. I’m willing to bet it’s 50:50

CryCeratops · 26/11/2022 22:36

It’s probably coincidence.

Folks · 26/11/2022 22:33

What does ovulation have to do with it?

I’m pretty sure the sperm dictates the sex?

TheGoogleMum · 26/11/2022 22:31

I'm currently pregnant with a boy, but the Facebook due date group I'm in has a good mix of boys and girls

Eek3under3 · 26/11/2022 22:31

I had a baby in August. Of 8 friends that had babies from June-Aug, one had a girl!

Namechanger965 · 26/11/2022 22:28

It’s probably just the people you know. Out of the 10 babies of our close family and friends born in the last 5 years there’s been only 1 boy (mine!), he’s very much outnumbered by girls around us.

In the wider family/people we know of it’s about even, lots of people with one of each and a few with 2 girls, only 1 couple with 2 boys.

PinkPlantCase · 26/11/2022 22:28

I don’t think the when you have sex in your cycle is an actual method of having a boy or girl.

I don’t know if there is an overall trend at the moment or any other factors but I’m fairly sure that timing of sex and ovulation isn’t one of them.

WhiteFire · 26/11/2022 22:27

Seems to be lots of baby girls at work.

Problemorno · 26/11/2022 22:26

I had DS in June and, out of 7 babies on the post natal ward, he was the only boy.

Comedycook · 26/11/2022 22:26

Posted too soon.

More boys than girls. In my dds primary class there were 21 boys and 9 girls.

justanotherlaura · 26/11/2022 22:25

I'm one of 4 friends to have babies this year, we've had 2 boys and 2 girls between us

Luredbyapomegranate · 26/11/2022 22:25

It’s just coincidence OP.

If there was a significant national tilt to boys I think we’d have heard about it.

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