Have 2 boys and wanting a girl, how likely is it?

[Boymum98]

Me and my partner have a boy together and I have a boy from a previous relationship and he has 2 daughters. We would like to have another baby but we are both hoping for a girl. How likely would it be? I love my boys and his daughters but I’ve always really wanted a girl of my own.

It’s 50:50

I followed this method after having one boy and had a girl but you’ll get lots of replies saying it’s just a 50/50 chance…😊
http://www.luisazissman.co.uk/?p=647

50:50.

why do you want a girl?

How many decimal places are you looking for? 50% is near enough for most purposes

This method is called the shettles method and has been completely discredited.

Also, an egg can only be fertilised for 24 hours after ovulation, so it’s completely wrong to say that you can conceive a boy from sex 2-3 days after ovulation.

I think it’s 51:49 in most populations, but experience of war/famine and other adverse events can shift the ratio somewhat.

Don’t have a baby to have a girl.

The odds are anybody’s guess.

I have 3 boys and won’t lie, I always hoped to have a girl, but our plan was always for 3 kids regardless and they are all happy and healthy.

I did go through a period of grieving for the girl I never had, especially after I miscarried in between my middle and youngest, but I’m so lucky and grateful for what I have.

The 50/50 thing intrigued me, I read an article that basically said how can every single man produce that ratio of sperm and that they believe in some cases that some men produce a higher ratio of one or the other.

I’m no scientist but it kind of makes sense if you think about it. Although I’m sure someone with more knowledge will come along and discount it.

I'm not having a baby just for a girl, I want 3 children which is my max regardless of what the gender of the third baby will be. I would be happy with a third boy but there’s always been a part of me that’s hoped for a girl. If it doesn’t happen, it doesn’t happen I won’t be having anymore and I won’t feel any different towards the third child, they’ll be loved just the same as the other children.

This, with chance of having a boy being 51% and having a girl 49%.
Basically 50/50.

According to research the chance of having a girl after 2 boys is 48% https://www.kidspot.com.au/conception/hoping-for-a-particular-gender-read-this/news-story/158a32617d95f9a2e525ca3c44c3b6c8#:~:text=The%20chance%20of%20having%20a,have%20two%20of%20the%20same.

It’s not 50/50 but genetic factors can make some couples more likely to have children of one sex over the other, it’s thought that some men have a higher number of X orY chromosome sperm. That’s why you get some families who have more children of a particular sex than 50/50 odds would usually produce. It’s not really possible to say whether your husband has more Y sperm based on only having 2 children so far though.

Go to Cyprus and do gender selection IVF

When I had my first child it did look as if my kids would be the only grandchildren on both sides of the family. [My brother never having kids, my husband's brother and wife experiencing infertility]
I only wanted two kids and certainly would not have continued to try for the opposite sex.
I did apply every 'method' and 'old wives tale' I could find and to my delight my second child is the opposite sex to the first. Who knows why, but Job Done.
So I'd say: go for it, but only if you don't care TOO much.

All of the large population studies show that the percentage remains almost 50/50 to within a couple of percentage points.

As a pp said, ignore anybody recommending Shettles as not only is it discredited, the scientist who came up with the (nonsense) theory, mixed up what he was seeing and thought x sperm were y sperm and vice versa.

I would say, if a man has had only boys before, there's a much stronger chance of having a boy with him. But because he's had two girls (with another woman) and 1 boy (with you,) I reckon the odds are weighted in the next one you two have being a girl. The fact YOU have a boy (with another man) is irrelevant because that other man's sperm dictated the gender, not your egg.

I reckon you've got about a 65% chance of having a girl. That is just my opinion though, based on pure anecdata. Good luck. Girls are absolutely fucking brilliant. Boys are too, of course, And it's nice to have a mix.

Ignore the people demanding to know why you want a girl @Boymum98 None of their business. And many MANY women want a girl. I always wanted a girl. Wouldn't have cared if I had 3, 4, or 5 boys, as long as I had at least ONE girl. My first was a girl, so whatever I had after that - I didn't mind.

I’ve read that the environment of the woman’s womb can play a role in the sex of the infant. For example some wombs are more hospital to X sperm and others are more hospitable to Y sperm.

It was based around studies of women who had at least four children, all of which were of the same sex and it was basically trying to discredit the 50/50 idea as it would be highly unlikely for a woman to have lots of children (4+) and for them all be the same sex.

Apparently some womb environments are fatal to X sperm and in those cases the woman would only be ever be able to have a male child regardless of who she was having sex with and what the sexes are of other children he’s had with other women.

It was about 12 years ago that I read it and although it’s most likely been de-bunked now it was incredibly fascinating.

@DoneAdulting please tell me you’re joking 🙄🤬

You can get an NIPT at 10 weeks which will tell you the sex with 99% accuracy.

Have you joined the ingender page online? There’s another one too but I can’t remember the name. I didn’t use the stuff personally as I had one of each in very quick succession 🫣 but a very close friend did and she got her girls (twins) 😆 Anyway, it wasn’t Shettles, although some people still swear by that, but stuff around the PH of you and your partner. So she changed her and her husband’s diet. I can’t remember what she ate but whatever it was it helped. Or maybe we it didn’t! 🤷🏻‍♀️ It’s called a sway I think. But have a look. Good luck.

It’s not highly unlikely to have 4 the same sex. It’s one in 8 if you have four children. So for every 16 families with four kids you would expect the following:
one family with four girls
four families with three girls and a boy
six families with two boys two girls
four families with a girl and three boys
one family with four boys.

Im not making that claim myself.

And the requirement for the study was a minimum of four children, some of the women had up to 7-8 children, all of them being same sex. The study wasn’t done on a small scale either. The research was looking at what external factors may contribute to the sex of an infant rather than claim it will 50/50 based on nothing but the solely biological probability of either an X or Y sperm fertilising the egg. It focused on the women’s lifestyles, their health and involved them having samples taken from their womb linings etc.

Im not saying it was anything reliable or came to any legitimate conclusions, I was simply talking about something I’d read.

How old are you both op? Older men are more likely to have girls (on average). I believe after 40 that ratio is sigbificant. Over 60% female to 40% male.

We used Shettles method and it worked.

How can you know? How were you able to determine what you would have had without the method?