DD is surrounded by Boys (sorrry a bit PFB) is this the case with anyone else?

[peachygirl]

my DD is 21 months and pretty much has only one friend who is a girl.

In my antenatal group everyone else had boys,thats four she knows.
The child minder has two boys and all their friends who she meeets are also all boys.
We had a run of pregnancies at work and again they all had boys, as did my friend from school.

Know I know this is a bit PFB and I know it won't affect her in later life (although she is quite boistrous) but just wondered if it was common or if anyone has any good ideas as to how to aquire female friends for her (and for me)

I had been getting to know a lady at swimming but it looks like they are moving away .. sigh.

I wouldn't worry about it. When she starts nursery she will have both sexes to mix with. I was concerned when DS1 was small that he was surrounded by boys and wanted him to have girl friends. He is now at school and has plenty of friends of both sexes.

Also, I wouldn't necessarily put her boisterousness down to being around boys, you may just have a boisterous girl

she's only 21 months! It doesn;t matter at all what sex her friends are. It won't matter until school and there'll be some girls around then

Agree with Pointydog

They just enjoy being around other kids this age, really

Ds (20mths) loves girls and rarely plays with little boys. He even went over and hugged and kissed a little baby girl the other day and then "read" her a story. I'm not at all bothered - I agree with pointydog that it doesn't matter what sex their friends are.

ds had a good mix but in an odd way! At one group we went to it was ALL boys at another it wasall girls and he was the only boy. I think you very rarely find an even balance in one place. Don't know why though.

I wouldn't worry - DS was the same but the other way round. His absolute best friend is a girl and it's due to a natural click, not what sex they are. He now mixes with more boys and girls at nursery. What matters more is whether your DD genuinely enjoys spending time with her peers etc.

I have 2 ds and in all the groups etc we go to there are always way more boys. At nursery and school it seems to balance out a bit more (don't knwo where all the boys go? Maybe the girls stay at home more when they are younger??) and they will naturally cluster together at 4/5 anyway, whatever your feelings on gender stereotyping. I wouldn't worry about it - try and keep things unisex as long as possible I would say as every reception class I have been in seems to be full of girls in the home corner type place saying boys are smelly and cant come in which I think is a bit sad.

Thanks everyone I'm not worried and DD has lots of different toys. it's just something I'm aware of IYSWIM.

I have been told that her birth year is a big 'boy' year and I will be very interested to see what the class ratios will be when she gets to school.

I find it also a little bit sad though as all my friends are going through the same thing with their boys so maybe have a more of a natural affinity with each other. For example with toilet training etc and I don't really have lots of people to chat to about stuff like this.