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?

My sister has a son, and she has had two subsequent micarriages (don't know why the hospital said 'it's one of those things'). She's now expecting a baby in September and apart from an initial scare she's fine..... The article made me think though.

It was mentioned in that "Life before birth" programme that a woman who had previously had a son has an increased change of miscarriage, but never tried to explain why, which I thought was a bit off, especially as there could've been lot of newly pregnant mums of sons watching.

Does anyone know if these are early miscarriages?

I had a mc after ds1 but happily went on to have ds2, ds3 and ds4.

DS1
M/C
DS2
M/C
M/C
Etopic

No plans to try again!

LTofTT were your m/c early ones?

DS1
DD1
DD2
MC
DS2
So it doens't apply to me. But the 3 women I know with secondary infertility all have boys.

When I had the mc they asked me the sex of my other children as they said there is sometimes a link

PanicPants - they were all before 8 weeks.

Tamba.

Agree with beansprout that a load of people who had boys and then other kids isn't really shedding much light on this. The article says secondary recurrent mc only happens to about 1 in 300 women.

I imagine an immunologically-caused mc would happen pretty early in the pg?

my sisters m/c were also at eight weeks.....

Blimey.... they could've said! I went on to have 4 more. Still, I've never been one for following the herd lol

I had first born son & went onto have second born son, both conceived while using contraception!

total crap! i fell pregnant with ds2 when ds1 was four months old!

I fell pregnant (not planned) with dts after ds