Please tell me all about your gorgeous boy babies!

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Hoping not to get flamed as this is mainly lighthearted!

So we found out yesterday we're having a baby boy! We already have two girls and a boy (joint DD and two lovely DSC).

I remember once reading that boy babies are often harder to settle than girl babies due to increased testosterone and reduced seretonin levels compared to girl babies. I wouldn't usually buy in to this kind of stereotyping and I know every baby is different but on reflection in considering our own personal experiences, as well as those of friends and family, it seems that boy babies are often a little more whiny and fussy than the girls.

I'm abit anxious as I loved the baby phase with DD and coped well in spite of various health problems, but I'm thinking would I have enjoyed/coped as well with a very difficult to settle baby like some of my friends have experience, and as DP experienced with DSS!

I'm so excited and we have already been looking at clothes, nursery ideas, and names, so as the icing on the cake I'd love to hear some reassuring experiences from mummies of lovely chilled happy non colicky boy babies to add to my excitement and shush some of my anxieties! ❤️🥰😂😍 xx

I was lucky and had easy babies but I had my DD first and I would have thought she was hard work if I'd had my ds first. He was ridiculously easy (although he hated being jiggled etc when he was tired - he just wanted to be put down so it took us a few days of more crying to realise that).
Of my friends I would say that only two babies were really really hard work and one of those was a boy and one a girl.

Should have rtft! Congratulations on your lovely boy

My niece is having a baby boy today (planned c-section) I can’t even begin to say how excited I am… I had two boys and they were wonderful (although maybe I’m slightly biased?!) They we’re both different, and I wouldn’t say easier than the girls my friends had, but they were delightful little people, and I’d love to go back and have another day with them as babies 🥰 so I’m going to love having another baby boy in the family!

Baby boys are deffo winning on this thread although I guess the title invites it 😂 x

Thanks to everyone for sharing their experiences of their wonderful baby boys x

I have one boy who was the most chilled out baby ever (a bit of an exaggeration,he had his moments but on the whole) and one who was very hard work, fussy, wanted to be held 24/7, screamed in my face for much of the day (and night!). Opposite ends of the spectrum. I also know a fair few girl babies that were hard work too. So I don't think sex has much to do with it. It's totally personality. Ds1 (my chilled out baby) is still generally quite chilled out and Ds2 (my screamer) still screams and shouts and tantrums about everything.

This was not my experience at all! My DD was a screaming, non-sleeping, nonputdownable nightmare, my DS was a dream - just so easy.

My baby boy sleeps really well.. as long as he's in our bed. Didn't plan to co-sleep but he decided.

Mine was a little angel. He was a pretty crap sleeper, I’ll admit. But he was incredibly affectionate, cheerful and smiley from very early on. Barely cried, and if he did it was easy enough to fix (pick him up, basically).

My firstborn DS was hard work as a baby, fidgety a poor sleeper, wanted to be held all the time, constantly hungry, but then I had no clue as to what I was doing. He's 18 now, a very competitive person, still somewhat highly strung or tightly wound but he's a delight - and I wouldn't swap him for the world. Middle child DD was a dream baby, absolutely gorgeous and super easy, but is now going through teenage angst and struggling (hard work rn) and No 3 child DS was chilled as a baby, very easy going and whilst we haven't hit puberty yet he is still extremely easy going and good natured. By far the most resilient.

I'm not sure what is determined by nature, what is determined by place in the family and what is nurture but I think fundamentally it has very little to do with their sex and more to do with their individual personalities and how they respond to their environment / expectations put upon them and how we've parented slightly differently due to their birth order.

(Not on purpose obviously but it would be silly to think we have been identical as people / parents or that circumstances haven't dictated a slightly different experience for them - DD loves to make a big deal out of being the neglected middle - completely not neglected and has always had tons of attention, but it suits her narrative to bring this idea into play!! At this point in time she is absolutely the centre of attention and younger DS is having to adapt around her needs more than the other way around.)

Till my little boy (just turned one) joined nursery he was super relaxed and easY going. Much more so than DD. He's also super cuddly and affectionate ..loves cuddles and kisses and will cuddle up to anyone familiar like a little kitten and he loves putting his cheek against our cheeks.

Congratulations 🎉

My youngest DS has been the most angelic, textbook “easy” baby you could imagine. I honestly couldn’t fault him. He slept well, he fed well, was a smiley joyful soul from the start.

My eldest DS had his moments in fractiousness but was generally easy to settle.

My DD was my trickiest baby, high needs, never slept, needed a lot of effort for smiles.

they are all different, enjoy your babe!

My biggest baby boy will be 20 soon. He’s the most loving, kind and thoughtful boy who has been an absolute dream. Mind you he’s also a bit moody, very messy and has no concept of tidying up after himself. But he’s amazing and we have the most wonderful relationship,

I’ve got a DD. I adore her but I couldn’t manage 2 of them.

My little boy is 6 months old and is a little dream. He rarely cries as long as he’s fed and has lots of cuddles. When he smiles his whole face lights up he’s just amazing.

I have a 4 month old who is literally the most laid back, but also alert, kid I've ever met. It's the first time I've heard him properly cry this week as he's been poorly since having his jabs. He's a hungry boy and wants regular feeding and will shout for you to change his wet nappy as he's a bit of a prince, but overall he is a lovely smiling cheerful little soul who's not bothered by very much at all, we adore him!