To think it's more difficult/less common to conceive a girl?

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I just found out today my second baby is a boy. Still over the moon of course, but have that feeling that one of each would have been lovely.

Lots of couples I know have boys and more than one at that. And they have gone on to try for another just to have a girl. There's not many people I know who have DD's. My DH is also 1 of 3 boys.

AIBU to think girls are in the minority?

I have four sons, no daughters. DH has a brother and sister. I have a brother. DH's brother has two sons. His cousin has three sons. My cousin has two sons.

No baby girls in the family. Anywhere.

Among our family and friends, the younger the mother, the more likely they have girls, the older the mother, the more likely they have boys.

I have two circles of friends where boys heavily outweigh girls. I have a number of friends who have circles of friends where boys heavily outweigh girls. DH is one of six cousins, but there's only one girl.

The flip to that is DS is one of five cousins. He's the only boy. BIL seems to have circles of friends who only had girls.

Overall it evens up.

Ive got lots of friends who have all girls or several girls and one boy. Its a roll of the dice op - as Forrest Gump says "Life is like a box of Chocolates - you never know which one you gonna get"

I have 3 girls no boys, mainly girls my side of the family. You just happen to be surrounded by boys I'm surrounded by girls don't think it means anything about harder/ easier to conceive

The gender ratio in the UK is 97 males to every 100 females, presumably because women have a slightly higher life expectancy and therefore the elderly population skews the ratio a little. Even if slightly more male babies than female babies are born, the difference is so negligibly tiny that you can't reasonably say it's more difficult to conceive a girl.

One of my male friends has four sisters. All his sisters have two or three girls and no boys. He also has three girls and no boys. One of his nieces has children which are also both girls. Maybe they've been allocated all the girls that your friends didn't have!

It's actually 49/51 with female being slightly higher globally.

But that's just one class... I have 3 DC, at primary school they were all in classes where girls outnumbered boys 2:1. But this was still just 3 classes and so not in any way representative of the population as a whole.

Midwife here. It does seem to go on phases but ultimately the ratio is pretty even.

Anecdotally I have two girls and a boy. There are always more female offspring in our family then males.

I work in a nursery, preschool is overrun by boys, by a long way. Baby room is the opposite with way more girls than boys.

I come from a family of mostly girls, my DDs year six class was pretty much all girls (5/6 boys in 30ish) and DP is the only male in his family.

@TrixieFatell ohhh reminds me of the ward my sister was in, she had a DD, and so did the other 6 women in the ward. Midwife said there's been a girl phase lately :)

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