What was the gender of your 3rd child?

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I have heard according to recent research if you have two boys or two girls, if you were to have a 3rd the chances are it would be the same gender?

Just curious to hear those who had two kids same gender and went to have a 3rd, what was the gender?

I only have one child, my sister has two girls and she plans to have one more. We were discussing this today and I find it quite interesting as does seem to ring true with people I know. Not that it matters!

2 girls then a boy.

2 girls then boy

Girl
Boy
Girl
Girl

I have 4 boys

2 boys then a girl for me. My brother had 2 girls and now expecting a boy 🙂

Girl
boy
boy
girl

Girl, girl, girl!

Boy boy boy

Girl, Boy, Girl, Girl

2 boys then a girl

Boy
boy
girl

sibling had
boy
boy
girl

I am one of three
girl
boy
boy

I'm sure I read recently the chances stay at 50/50 for sex of the baby, so even if you have two of the same sex, the third is still a 50/50 chance (this could be wrong though...I'll try find what I was reading)

I have two boys. Not sure about the third yet lol.

But my friends with 3 kids have
girl girl boy,
boy boy girl,
girl girl boy,
boy boy boy.

Two boys, then another boy.

I remember the sonographer telling me that as I had two boys already, the chance of a third boy was about 75%.

Aaarghhh.

Your babies have either XX chromosomes or XY, making them either female or male. That is not gender, it is biological sex.

You/they can decide on the social construct that is gender later on.

Younger full siblings are slightly more likely to be girls as the chance of a girl very slightly increases with paternal age (because older men produce fewer strong/ healthy Y chromosome carrying sperm and sperm carrying the X chromosome is more resilient). It's not enough of a difference to predict anything for an individual couple though.

Some individual men produce more healthy sperm carrying X and some Y (even though across the population it's 50/50) so some are more likely to father all boys or all girls - it's not actually a 50/50 chance every pregnancy, but very few men/ couples have had extensive testing unless they are carriers of a genetic syndrome which only effects one sex, or have had investigation for fertility treatment, so most people don't have any way of knowing!