"Tough girls tend to give birth to boys" - article in the Times

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See \link{http://women.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,17909-2070169,00.html\here}

Well I've got one of each so I must have been soft to start with and then toughened up.

I have one of each maybe I was tough before then softened!!??

I don't know anyone who knows me who would describe me as soft.

I have two daughters.

I have 2 of each.Im the opposite must of started tough then gone soft!

how interesting!

i guess that means i'm under confident and a push over then since i have 2 girls!

I have 2 boys and will freely admit to being a total wuss. :o

Don't mess with me: three boys and counting!

this ones interesting too:

Boffins breed boys. A London School of Economics study found that engineers, actuaries and others with “systematising” brains tended to have sons

i'm an engineer!

Er, am I being a div, but I thought the sex of the offspring had rather more to do with whether or not the sperm had an x or a y chromosome than the personality of the mother...

Yes but the article is suggesting there's more to it than that 2happy.

I don't have an opinion on whether it's true. I have two girls and I'm definitely not a "tough girl" lol.

Sorry, only read the first paragraph...

Errr... Has someone disproved the theory (fact?) that the child's gender is determined by the sperm? Or do manly women attract men with more male sperm?

I think the pH of the fluid inside can disproprotionately affect sperm of a given sex - so that some women may have conditions that favour male sperm , and others female sperm - and so are more likely to have children of a given sex.

However, genealogy research tells me that it is very rare for a large family to not be a roughly equal mixture of the sexes - so I guess any pH influence can change over time as well

I read sometime like this when I was pregnant. It suggested that more assertive women had boys as they had a higher level of testosterone (sp). I didn't know the sex of my baby so assumed I was having a boy as I'm very assertive. Lo and behold, out pops... a girl!

Well I am far from tough - I am the biggest wuss going & I have 2 boys!

when I look back I would actually say that I was a bit tougher after my dd - my personality had changed as I had been a soft touch and then became quite bitter and decided that I was not going to be a soft touch anymore, this was round about the october I started feeling this way - dh and I decided in the Jan to start ttc and I was preg by the Feb - I had my ds. Would just like to say that I am currently back to being a soft touch - hopefully not for long - lol!!

I thought that the levels of testosterone in the mother's blood stream made the difference over what side of the brain the child was going to be...Ie, right side/left side....literal/lateral....sensitive/tough etc etc.

Which is why you get girly boys and tomboy girls as well as stereotypes blue boys and pink girls

i LOVED this article

I'm by no means confident, tough or pushy and I have 2 dss and 1 dd

Rubbish isn't it? I'm no shrinking violet, dominant personality, and have two girls. Dh is a "boffin" (chemistry professor). So their theories are wrong on both counts!

So I was a softy first & must have become one tough ol' bi*ch. Now I'm a gibbering wreck!

huzzah, always knew I was hard as blinkin nails

there was an essentially similar research done a while ago which related to jobs, but amounted to the same thing ..does that make it more likely to be true?

It was a thread in archives, I will find it..

no I won't sorry