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Probabilitiy of gender for third child...

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minicommandant · 15/11/2006 22:12

Didn't really know where to put this, but hope someone can shed some light. A friend's midwife is telling her that because she already has 2 boys, there is a 75% chance that her 3rd baby will also be a boy. As I also have 2 boys and am planning a 3rd, I would be really interested to know if there is a proven statistical basis to this! It wouldn't affect the decision, just interested to know the odds!

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Babymad2DS · 17/11/2006 08:16

My DS#1 7yrs old, is in a class of 30 and in that class 20 girl's!

notagrannyyet · 17/11/2006 16:43

DS 3 is 21 now but in his class at primary school there were 21 girls and 7 boys.

daisydog · 17/11/2006 17:38

Really want to know if anyone has tried any of the choose the sex of your baby books - do they work???

Lucy1977 · 17/11/2006 22:45

Babymad2DS - that's interesting about more girls born than boys except in Scotland. I am in Scotland and in our baby group there are only 2 boys and 10 girls!

I am no 6 child of 8 in total. My parents had girl, boy, boy, boy, girl, girl, boy, girl, so 4 of each in total. My DH is no 3 of 4 in total and his parents had girl, boy, boy, girl.

So, do you think if we have 2 we'll get a girl and a boy?! (already have 9 month old DD)

Lucy

Babymad2DS · 18/11/2006 10:58

My mother tried every trick in the book, BDing on odd or even days, full moon, Wooden spoon with pink ribbon under pillow, BDing 3 days before OV and never on the day of OV, Chinese gender chart, douching, diet, all sorts of things and still had boy after boy after boy, then someone said to her that it takes 4 yrs for a baby to get out of your system, so she waited for that and got her girl!

kittywits · 18/11/2006 11:23

I don't know about all this, I had 2 boys, followed by three girls and now I am expecting my third boy, this is all within 8 years. I guess no one really knows how of if things can be influenced, Still, you might have fun trying

Also, it depends how many children you have, if you have loads you are more likely to get a mix, although I have a friend who had 1 girl and then went on to have 5 boys, poor woman

kittywits · 18/11/2006 11:23

I don't know about all this, I had 2 boys, followed by three girls and now I am expecting my third boy, this is all within 8 years. I guess no one really knows how of if things can be influenced, Still, you might have fun trying

kittywits · 18/11/2006 11:24

stupid internet, drives me mad, doesn't post then posts twice

Babymad2DS · 19/11/2006 11:23

kittywits My mother had a girl(ME) then 8 boys in a row and then waited over 4 years before trying again and then had a girl!

kittywits · 19/11/2006 20:44

The woman deserves a medal and a very large drink

Chamomile · 19/11/2006 20:52

2 boys then a girl here! Dont know the stats but worth a try. ( Though 3 boys are pretty splendid ,too, of course)

Twohootsunderthemistletoe · 19/11/2006 20:56

Interesting about more girls than boys being born recently. My HV has said the trend in the East Midlands has been the reverse for the last 3 years. My DD is 18 mth and we only know little boys her age - no little girls. She was the only girl at a first time mum's group I used to take her to when she was little (10 other boys!!).

I have also been told that some women just cannot carry a particular sex - the embryo just doesn't survive or they miscarry. That happened to my aunty (she had a boy, then miscarried, then had another boy, then miscarried), they told her that the miscarriages were probably girls and she could not carry them for some reason??? Seems a bit dodgy to me but I guess she'll always wonder...

Chamomile · 19/11/2006 20:59

I remember reading something that in time of warfare etc. more girls are born and the hypothesis was that the ova were the determining factor , not the sperm. Under certain cicumstances the egg is primed to receive either X or Y sperm so it's a bit more complicated than 50/50.

Babymad2DS · 19/11/2006 21:33

She is a very stupid woman, she treated all my bothers like dirty because they wasn't want she wanted. When a baby was born, and it's was a boy she would turn round and say "oh a boy oh better luck next time". I was the one left with the baby after that, bottle's, night feed's, crying and nappy changes, there was one point in my life I didn't go out for 6 months because my mother left me with the children day in day out(I was 15 at that time). It started when I was 11 but got a whole lot worse at 13. At that time in my life I was left with 6 children, one of them being a baby, 1 being a toddler and 2 having HADD! I missed 3 years of school because of that woman, My mother would cry and cry saying she couldn't cope with the children on her own, and how she need's me to stay at home to help her look after the children. She would take 4 of the children to school and not come back till 3:30 and I would have to remind her about picking the children up from school, when she got back she then had the nerve to ask me what I was doing for tea and then go to bed and ask me to keep the children quite! THEN the dam woman would go to Bingo between 7 and 11 and expected the house to be clean and tidy, children all in bed, baby's bottle sterilized and made by the time she got back! I was woken up in the night to do all the night feed's, this was a typical day and I was only 13 yrs+. life carried on pretty much the same right up till I ran away from home at (8 children at this time I had to look after) 16 years because I just couldn't cope anymore and also at this point I had tried to kill my self 3 time's! Sorry for getting on my ban wagon! But that woman deserves nothing not even the love my brothers show her! I never really had a childhood, my childhood ended when I was only 11 years old, and I will never forgive her for that. I'm sorry but you don't have children just for your other children to bring them up and that was exactly what she did!!

Really sorry but I needed to get that off my chest! Just ignore me!

EmmyLou · 19/11/2006 21:46

I was told by brother in law (geneticist - sp?) that because we had 2 girls our third was 70% chance of being the same - and she was.

EmmyLou · 19/11/2006 21:50

Babymad - not suprised you're .

Peridot30 · 19/11/2006 23:10

Oh babymad sending you ((((hugs))). not being horrible but your childhood sounds crap. im sure you are a much better mummy than your's ever was.x

kittywits · 20/11/2006 07:19

Poor you babymad, it's no wonder youre so angry, sending you big (((hugs)))

Twohootsunderthemistletoe · 20/11/2006 10:23

BM - sorry to hear your story - your childhood (if you can call it that) sounds awful. Unfortunatley I know someone else similar - has a little boy a little younger than my DD (she told everyone who would listen that she cried her eyes out after her 20 wk scan when she found out it was a boy as she wanted a girl ffs) and now has 2 girls and the little boy basically gets ignored. We don't see each other now and I am pleased - just can't understand people like that! But I feel very sorry for the little boy. Makes me .

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