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When's the best time to get pregnant? Use our interactive ovulation calculator to work out when you're most fertile and most likely to conceive.

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chances of having all the same gender?

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1dilemma · 31/12/2007 02:19

Let me start by saying that I absolutely 100% don't care what gender my dcs are.
But I know there are several people with lots of boys on here and a couple coming along behind with all girls (waves you know who you are) and I read that if you have 2 boys you have something like an 80% chance of having a third boy. What exactly is the figure? Is it the same for girls? If you have 3 ds or 3 dd what are the chances? if you have 4....

Thanks

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Katherine4babas · 26/01/2021 11:53

Had my scan last week boy or girl what do u all think

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hatrick · 31/12/2007 22:59

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Bubble99 · 31/12/2007 22:56

That makes sense!

If my DH was any more laid back, he'd fall over.

(five boys)

blueshoes · 31/12/2007 22:53

Read a study that if men are stressed (eg stressful jobs), they tend to sire girls.

Holly78 · 31/12/2007 22:34

wow peachy!! i wish i was as fertile as my nan lol...

PeachyHasAFiggyPudInTheOven · 31/12/2007 22:30

Ah holly- your Nan's a lightweight, mine had 16 LOL - 8 of each.

I've read that as men age their sprerm get 'weaker' and that as female sprem are stronger (but not so fast) they are indeed more likely to father girls, ditto men with low sperm counts. No idea if research backs this up mind.

yurt1 · 31/12/2007 22:30

My dad (an ex submariner) reckons submariners only ever produced girls.....

Holly78 · 31/12/2007 22:26

Hi can i just add i think when men get older they tend to produce girls (please dont all jump on me and whack me!!) just in my experience thats all... my best friend has 4 boys then skip 13yrs they have a girl...another friend 3 boys..skip 9yrs..and a girl.. another friend has 4 girls left her hubby for 20something guy had a boy 1 an half and is due in march with her second boy!!!

But then again my mum is 1 of 15 YES 15 children she has 7 brothers and 7 sisters her being the 8th sister of course... 5 of the brothers are the youngest!!

I think its 50/50 LOL....hapy new year all x

pinkbubble · 31/12/2007 22:26

DS has 1 boy
DB has 1 boy 3 daughters

SIL has 3boys

PeachyHasAFiggyPudInTheOven · 31/12/2007 22:24

(and the same ggoes for me as with yurt- we tried the before ovulation bit for ages no dice, once on date of ovulation (my birthday and drunk lol) and bang on another boy! pmsl)

PeachyHasAFiggyPudInTheOven · 31/12/2007 22:23

I'm expecting my 4th boy and both my sisters have only boys, so I do have some faith in the predisposition notion....

Each individual pregnancy is more likely (on average) to be a boy as more boys are born due to long term survival rates... might be easier to look at it that way?

yurt1 · 31/12/2007 22:22

Oh I have 3 boys btw.

yurt1 · 31/12/2007 22:22

I think I'm unfriendly to sperm. If I have sex when I am ovulating I will get pregnant. Always with boys (Y sperm swim faster). If I have sex just missing ovulation I won't get pregnant (presumably slower X sperm have no chance as they're all killed off before reaching the egg). DH has had the snip btw so all theoretical now.

took ages to conceive ds1 as I had my cycle wrong!

hatrick · 31/12/2007 22:19

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pinkbubble · 31/12/2007 22:19

I have 3 DDs and very a very proud Mummy, although saying that I would be a very pround Mummy what ever the case was!

Bubble99 · 31/12/2007 22:17

syskywalker. Yes, there are books. The couples I know had them memorised.

Though if the theory that a womans 'chemistry' is naturally hostile to sperm of a certain gender at any time, is correct - then timing doesn't count for much?

syskywalker · 31/12/2007 22:15

if you go in ivillage.co.uk and go on the message boards section and its trying to conceive or something like that, the ladies there have made a science of it, how to conceive all the little tricks etc. i could not believe some ppl knew all this stuff.

syskywalker · 31/12/2007 22:14

i mean, even if your cycle is very regular that one month it might be all over the place and you could ovulate very early or very late, for no apparent reason or if you had some stress, etc.

syskywalker · 31/12/2007 22:12

and it depends on your families as well, if your mum had more boys or girls or a nice mixed bunch you are more likely to follow. if both sides of the family had more of the one gender, well its more likely you will too.

my nan had boy, girl, boy, girl, boy and my mother had girl, girl, boy, boy, girl, boy.

i got a girl and a little boy.

Bubble99 · 31/12/2007 22:12

'Out?'

What is this 'out' of which you speak?

syskywalker · 31/12/2007 22:09

its not exact science as you can be out the one month for one reason or another, but if you do the charting and use ovulation test and i mean not every other day but you need to use them i think at least the week before and after expected ovulation as just charting you might as well not bother as the temp changes after its already happened.

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1dilemma · 31/12/2007 22:08

Just to make it clear I'm not trying to choose the gender of my dcs (healthy is all I care about) but I too had heard the stuff about male and female sperm and the bit about 80% if 2ds and wondered if it was higher if 3 then thought of all those people in the papers who have 11 sons and wondered if actually they had zero chance of having a dd but noone had told them !!
Hi Bauble99 you were one of the infamous ones with the boys I referred to. Not out dancing then....

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Bauble99 · 31/12/2007 22:04

Thing is though, I know 2 couples who have timed conception like a military campaign and they have still ended up with all of the same gender.

I wasn't organised enough to do this and I've had five boys. I firmly believe that if I had ten children they would all be boys.

syskywalker · 31/12/2007 21:59

so if you try to conceive a specific gender you have a good chance with charting and ovulation test, obviously need to do it a few month before you know when but you will need ovulation tests as they will tell you when it happens or a persona. there are actually books on this.

hazygirl · 31/12/2007 21:57

i have 1 brother there are four of us girls ,i had 2 dd and 1 son dd has 3 girls had a son but he passed away so not many males in our famiyx