Anecdotally, if your cravings were the same with subsequent pregnancies were the babies the same sex?

[ShutUpAlex]

My mum is convinced I’m having another girl as I’m having all the same cravings as I did with my daughter.
However, I don’t see much scientific basis for this!

So thought I’d get a small poll.

Yabu for no
Yanbu for yes

Oh I'm going to watch with interest

My first pregnancy I had no sickness or nausea and had a girl. This time I really struggled for the first 8/9 weeks, curious if it'll be a boy this time (not bothered either way.)

No, different cravings, same aex

Completely different symptoms, same sex.

My first pregnancy (which I lost) was again completely different.

Opposite genders, very similar pregnancies.

Same sex both times, totally opposite pregnancies in every single way.

No, I've craved sugar in all my pregnancy's and have both girls and boys.

2 girls, bad morning sickness with both but worse the second time. Once sickness had gone I had massive fruit cravings with the first one and certain Chinese takeaway dishes with the second.

@MidSummersNightmare haha with my first I craved Chinese chicken curry even though I had never had it before!

same sex all 3 times - totally different cravings (coffee and peanuts/watermelon and ice/ fruit juice and cheese pizza)

Boys and girls here. My cravings were the same with each pregnancy, but they were stronger each time.

The way I felt OTOH, the nausea, for example, and what I refused to eat, were different between the girls and the boys.

I craved fizzy orange and orange squash with both babies (I hate orange squash normally) one boy and one girl.

What was different was the sickness and how I carried.

Boy - felt sick but wasn't ever sick. I carried very wide and my rib cage expanded loads

Girl - felt sick a lot and was sick a few times. I carried all in front. I didn't look pregnant from the back at all

Same cravings but different sex! I could only ever eat sugary things. I'm currently pregnant with 3rd and once again I'm trying to stop myself from only eating cereal and ice cream all day 🙈

My cravings were for junk food with both pregnancies - basically all I wanted to eat was McDonalds. I had a boy and a girl.

I had bad sickness and nausea with both - with my son this stopped at 20 weeks, but with my daughter I was still throwing up in the third trimester.

I craved tomato and feta salad for DC1 and 2. I had a boy and a girl.
For my 3rd pregnancy I craved tinned peaches and pork pie. It was a girl.
No cravings for DC4 (girl).

Pork pies are the only thing I can eat this time round without feeling sick. I do hope it’s another girl but have a few more weeks to wait and see!

Salt and vinegar cravings with both boy and girl.

Different cravings, same sex x

First one I was convinced was a boy, couldn't stop eating salty foods, had the stomach line and all the old wives tales. I was right. Second pregnancy, suffered too much with morning sickness for any cravings. Thoughts that meant a girl but I was wrong. Third one, had a huge aversion to salty tastes, carrying high, no stomach line, no sickness. Another boy .

All old wives tales/sex predictors/gender woowoo is just that, just a bit of fun/nonsense! I think cravings are far more about what your body feels it's lacking in a pregnancy, rather than the sex of the child.

Same sort of cravings (white spirit/rubber smells), same sex

No cravings first time. Oranges second time. Both boys. I didn’t know they were thought to be sex-related just that it’s what your body needs, so I was presumably fine first time and vitamin c deficient second time!

Went off chocolate and craved savoury, anchovies, olives etc with my son and could eat chocolate and craved strawberry milkshake with my daughter.

When I say crave it was more a general preference than a 'must have'!

Same sex, 2 very different pregnancies and cravings here!

No cravings or sickness either time, different sexes. Symptoms tell you absolutely nothing about the baby's sex.

Craved fruit and went off red meat and game both times, different sex.

Same sex, slightly more sickness second time but strong cravings for milk and dairy products both times. I used to eat whole tubs of clotted cream with a spoon 🤢