What do you think of the news that women with firstborn sons will have a lower chance of having a 2nd child?

[PanicPants]

In the news this week.

Do you really think thats true?

How many of you have a firstborn son, and gone on to have other children?

Load of rubbish i think, I had my son 1st & went on to have a dd.

what a load of bolleaux!

i have 1st born ds and went on to have ds think its a load of rubbish

I posted this in the mscarriage section - I have a ds who is 4 and had a m/c in April. Quite e few others on that thread too.

Makes you think.

Me for a start and only 18 months between the two and number two is also son

I don't think that a whole list of MNer who have more than one child is really going to prove much!!

I've got a ds, and want more but it's made me think.

But I also know quite a few people who have 3 or 4 sons!

What are they basing the claim on?

I have the 2nd child its the bloody 3rd one that proving impossible

fit, something to do with a womans immune response to having a boy - not sure of the science behind it.

I read about it in the mn newsletter.

responded but lost it in the ether

was true for me

conceived DS (first child) within 2 months

secondary infertility .. two years of trying PLUS clomid resulted in DD (was ovulating fine but too late in cycle)

Consultant said when pregnant your hormones get thrown up in the air and after you give birth they land any which way .. so its probably down to luck

My first born was a son and I went on to have 3 other children. How can that be true? Surely statistically, half of all first time mothers have a son?

It doesn't surprise me. I knew a woman with 3 girls and a 4th, a boy, who said to a friend and I, both of whom only had 1 boy each,
'if I'd have had him first I'd only have had one.' She found him a huge shock after 3 girls. I had a boy first and had I stayed with ex dh I prob wouldn't have had any more: I had dd partly so dh2 would have a child of his own (not that I regret her, not AT ALL). But I have no way of knowing whether finding it hard first time was the shock of a firstborn or not. And I found dd a lot easier but it may well have been down to her being a second child, not that she's a girl. I have friends with both who think boys are harder work. And my boy is def harder work than my girl but it could be down to a lot of things.

Just realised I totally mis read this, ignore me. I didn't realise it was about statistical fertility!

Thanks panicpants.
Guardian article on this

Well, I've got 3 boys and got pregnant with all of them on the first attempt. So doesn't apply to me anyway!

was the case for me. Healthy lovely 4 year old boy, followed by 2 stillbirths (the first of which was a boy) Probably nothing in it...but they still seem to know so little in this particular field.

Thanks for the link - it exlained it in more detail.

Might have to convince dp to start trying now for a second child in that case. (ds is 10 months!)

Firstborn ds, second dd, both conceived at first attempt. No immunological issues there!

And the same for my mum: boy then girl, no issues conceiving either.

1st born ds then had ds2,dd1 and dd2.Fell preg straight away each time.

dhw, I'm so sorry, I've been following your story and hope this hasn't brought it all up again for you.

There not saying that every woman who has a male first born experiences this, just some women.

It's true for me, and scarily, quite a few other women I know.

BBC piece on this from THREE YEARS AGO - it says

Where is the simple injection then, hey?

I wonder how long it took them to sort out the Rhesus problem?