To ask which is "easier" - girl babies or boy babies, or are they both the same?

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Just that really. I've heard people saying that babies of one sex cry less than the other. Do you think there's any truth in this?

Of course not.

My boy baby is much easier than my girl baby was, but I'm also much more relaxed!

Girls aren’t all the same. Neither are boys.

Bloody hell! They're all individual.

I have two boys so am not at all placed to say anything beyond that they are both insanely energetic and a real handful. The only couple that we know who have both sexes swear blind that boys are much harder than girls (their daughters do seem quite pliant but I would imagine that not all girls are like that).

Good lord what a load of bollocks. Some cry lots. Some don’t. Male/female no difference.

I have a very energetic boy who has what we like to call 'big feelings' (ie he knows how to pitch a tantrum!)

Our friends have a boy a month older who is very calm, pliant and chilled.

I have two boys. One was a doddle as a baby (not so much now he’s a preschooler ), but the other was a nightmare - colicky, constantly wanted to be held, didn’t sleep. Those people you’ve been listening to are full of shit

Absolutely not. Babies are all different but it's nothing to do with their sex.

I’ve got two girls. One absolute dream of a baby, one only happy when she was attached to my breast.
Why would their anatomy have any bearing on how much they do/don’t cry?

Nope , depends on the baby’s character, not sex. One of my boys was a placid , happy little thing, but liked to be glued to me, other son cried more, slept terribly, but not clingy at all. Their characters are still chalk and cheese.

To be honest, from birth we treat boys and girls quite differently so in some ways they will respond differently

This has been seen when women are handed a 'boy' or a 'girl' and their reaction differ (even when it ends up being the same baby) can't remember the research sorry

What a load of rubbish! All of mine were similar as babies - 2 boys and a girl. Any stereotyping based on the sex of the baby is based on purely anecdotal evidence (I could say that boys are more active in utero, because mine were, but there will be plenty of people who would say the opposite based on their experiences).

Plus the whole "they are different people with different personalities' thing

That's interesting Katymac, that we treat them differently from birth - so maybe they do act differently.

I have a boy and a girl. My ds was a much more relaxed, easier baby than my DD.

I have b/g twins so have my own little in house experiment going on. They are 7 this year.
It's down to personality. Nothing to do with boy or girl.

My friends with one of each all say the boy was easier by far and pity me with two girls . This is only anecdotal though. Sample size not big enough to be conclusive. My girls were both hard work as babies. They were both very energetic toddlers but both calmed down a lot. I wonder if they have felt an expectation to conform to expected female behaviour over time.

Unbelievable that people believe this crap

It's utter nonsense to claim one is adier than the other.

DD couldn't be put down til she was about 3 months old - she'd be happy as anything in my or anyone's arms but scream til she was purple if put down, so I didn't sleep much for 3 months. Then she gradually improved, but was quite high maintenance throughout her babyhood.

Ds1 was an angelic, perfect baby who slept 4 hours, fed well, slept another 4, never cried without a reason which could be easily sorted really.

So boys are easier. Waaay easier. Piece of cake compared to girls.

But

Then I had DC3 who almost broke me...

A boy...

So second babies are easier?
Or third ones are harder than first and second put together?
Or the first boy is the easiest baby?
Or autumn babies are easiest...
Or perhaps it depends which way the wind was blowing when they were born?

It's all bollocks, you can't know based on genitals or birth order how easy your baby will be.

I think as babies while they are all different as individuals then there is no difference between boys and girls. I think there is a point when there starts to be some small differences between boys and girls, maybe around 3 or 4 years old.

Well my son weed on me a lot more during nappy changes than my daughter had until I got the hang of it
Apart from that no i dont think you can generalise