to think that it seems if you have a DS first, most often the second is a boy?

[tryingtobemarypoppins]

However if you have a girl first it seems far more evenly spread that the second is either a boy or girl?!!!

Just an observation but it does seem that way!

I had a DS1, Dd1, Dd2 and then a Ds2

ds then dd

I had

Boy (was a M/C)
Girl
Girl
Boy (another M/C)
Boy

My great grandparents had:

ggggggggbb !

So even if you do have a long run of one gender you can still have some of the other.

tobytortoise I agree, I feel very blessed to have my two boys.

If I get asked again if I'm trying for a girl...grrr

Out of my friends:

BB (me)
GGG
BB
GB
BB
BG
BG
GB

So pretty mixed

Ive had ds, dd, ds! Xx

Am thinking about all the people I know

GG
BBG
GB
GG
BG
BB
GG
BG
GGB
BG
GB
GB
BG
GG
GB
BG
BB
BB
GG

snorkle 10 children! Aaaghh!
8 girls followe by 2 boys, wow!

Is there a pattern?
I had DS then DD as did 3 of my friends and all 3 SILs. My sister and mum all had girls, apart from my brother who came after 3 girls. ime it's the opposite but don't think there's any pattern, except maybe within families, e.g my DH and his family all seem to have a DS then DD, whereas my family are mainly girls

I did find a chinese chart in a mag once, blue and pink squares, you cross reference your age when you concieved and your due date and it predicted babies gender. It really worked for everyone I knew. Think it was in mother & baby or something

Myself; two sisters; two brothers; three cousins and two neices all had DD1; DD2; DS - so perhaps patterns just run in families.

arggh indeed blametheparents, though I guess big families were more common then. I always imagine how surprised the mum must have been when child number 9 turned out to be a boy.

i was GBB

some other people i know are;

GBGB
BBGG
BBBGB
GGG
BB
BBBBG
GBGB
BGG
GGG
GBGG
GBGBB
GGB
GBG
BGB

Here's a link to a Chinese conception chart. Spookily, it is right for both mine. Though I guess it had a 50% chance of being right each time, s nt that spooky. Will have to go and work out if it's right for other people I know now...

im

ds
ds
dd
ds

I look after 2 girls.

Friends kids:
BBG
GB
GGG
BG
BG
GG
GGB
BGB
GG
BGB
GB
BB

ds first
then dd for me too
my grandparents had bgbggggbbbbbg

I'm pg with no.2 and don't know the sex. We already have DS. Yesterday at a child's birthday party a friend of a friend just couldn't get her head around the fact that I don't mind either way what we have, will just feel blessed to have two children... 'But wouldn't you be glad if you had a daughter?' 'er, yes, and also if I had another son'. Stupid woman.

My friends with two are GG, BB, BG, GB, GB.

So there doesn't seem to be a hard and fast rule IMO.

Thinking of the people I know:

BB
BG
BG
BGG
GG
BG (twins)
BB
GBB
GB
BGB
BBBB
BBBB
GG
BG
GGG
GGG
BGB

I think on the whole there tend to be more boys...which is odd because everything I've ever read says the gender balance will always be at least 51/49 in favour of girls since they carry on the world...