sex of the baby

[irishmummy27]

i am currently pregnant with my 3rd and although i have been blessed with 2 wonderful boys i long for a little girl , i believe that my pregnancy is different this time around compared to my last 2 , and i have gained a lot more weight round my hips , even tho my bump is quite low , i read thes tatistics about having 2 boys u are likey to have a 3rd but i dont know if any of that is so... desperately seeking comfort from a mum of 2 boys then a little girl , to reassure me that there is hope :)

But it seems to be people asking seriously medical questions to loads of mums who aren't qualified to be giving out medical advice!

:) I don't think asking about the sex of your baby and for anecdotal evidence about people who have had 2 boys and 1 girl is a 'serious medical question'.

I suggest that if this thread has wound you up, and you insist on pointing out every tiny detail wrong about the responses then you go and find some other way to spend your time.

And that's fine marie. It is a good website to talk to people about birth etc. If you don't want opinions then don't ask a question. I've found out a hell of a lot of things on here which have not come from medical sources but have been very accurate.

But that wasn't my issue, not what I said. I said that you had been unneccessarily personal and ott when addressing meditrina. And you still are. She's not 'trying to be clever' or undermine your source. She's not out to get you, you know! If the source is wrong and she's pointing that out then why on earth would she not? In fact she's done what you want everyone else to do: 'i'm showing my source so people can judge for themselves how credible it is' but perhaps it's your reaction you need to be looking at not her.

After all, if you will only accept approval and agreement then I think you'll find mnet an uncomfortable place. And being so aggressive is not agreat idea either.

So, I meant what I said - chill! Life is too short.

captainbarnacle i wasn't talking about this question in particular, I was just using how certain people had responded to point out how people reply on here and with their 'facts' and worry others when they don't actually know what they're talking about. you can't just say 'statistically' and not actually say what these statistics are/where you got them from!

meditrina I don't actually know what your point is? i'm halfway though my degree and am perfectly capable of understanding what you were saying about percentages so i don't know why you're repeating, the same statistic for about the third time? i think you should concentrate on reading rather than year 6 percentages and see that I replied to that in my last post. And the fact there was a small difference (the 6%-9% you've mentioned 50 times) I accounted for in my original post anyway.

buttonmoon she didn't even answer anything to do with the question when she first replied. She picked up on the fact that I had replied to you when i said you should just say statistically and then just keeps going on about it, when clearly the poster of the question just wants people saying, i've got 3 boys, or i've got 2 boys and had a girl!

If you think i'm being overly personal that I'm sure you're much older than me but you clearly have some learning about the world to do!!!!! I never said I didn't want opinions, all i said was i'm sick of reading all this rubbish people who don't know what they're talking about keep going on about!

you can't just say 'statistically' and not actually say what these statistics are/where you got them from!

You can, actually. This forum is like people talking down a pub - it's not forming an academic study. People around a table in a pub wouldn't whip out copies of statistical studies to back up what they are saying, and neither should they feel policed that way on a forum. You are being waaaaaay too dogmatic and militant. It's not really appropriate to put your point across in this manner.

Marie: yes, I'm spearing it again. You said there "2% - 6% rise". This is not accurate. The increase is in that number of percentage points. But it means a 50% rise.

It's the same thing that politicians do when they try to present an increase in, say NI, as a 1% rise when it is going up from 10% to 11%. It isn't - the increase is one percentage point. If your bill was £100 and you had a 1% rise, the new bill would be £101. It isn't, though, the new bill is £110. The rise is 10%.

So if you expected 6% for 4 boy families, and increase was 6%, the new percentage of boys would be 6.36%. It isn't.

I came on the thread to agree with you, and the data underlying the link you posted. You will see that I've been agreeing with your main point - that it is overwhelmingly 50/50 odds, and that the variation found in this survey, though suggestive, isn't statistically significant (though it may bear further study - buttonmoon78's link suggested that there are scientists working in this area).

Oh, and irishmummy: two boys followed by a girl.

@ meditrina

Marie ok, so we're both fed up. You've explained what you're fed up of. I'm fed up of posters who state something and then when someone challenges that, they become all defensive and personal. This is an open forum and if I'm older than you, might I suggest that rather than advising me to learn about the world, you might want to grow up a little so you are able to have an informed debate or uninformed conversation without feeling that every time someone disagrees with you they are out to make you feel stupid. Otherwise people will start asking if you'd like salt and vinegar to go with your chip.

Part way through your degree or otherwise you may be, you disagreed with the facts and meditrina was helping you understand that - that's why she's posted the same thing again (although to my mind she was enlarging upon previous info rather than repeating).

Now, shall we stick to the OP's question. After all, if it offends you so much that others haven't answered it, then surely that makes it a teeny bit hypocritical to continue to bang on about stats and other posters trying to make themselves look clever, dearie (I can say that being older, you know )

thanx to everyone for ur opinions we find out the sex 7th july watch this space :D

Watching with interest irish. I hope, whatever the outcome sex-wise, that you have a lovely healthy baby in there!

Good luck x

Just to add , my mum is a girl after 2 boys, so am I, and my 2 bf's have had 2 boys followed by a girl.

Good luck at the scan!

statistics like this are based on surveys.
they don't mean that if you have 2 boys, you'll have another boy- it says that based on evidence that has been observed, people with 2 boys end up more often with another boy than a girl.

It's one of those scientific things where the statstics available show a pattern, but they don't necessarily mean that that's a rule that will follow every time.
like you say, with the whole independent variable thing.
Statistics are useful in this way to draw a comparison - it's the whole thing about not being able to trust statistics because there are too many conclusions that you can draw that don't actually mean anything.

Wait and see, find out the sex at the earliest so you can get use to the idea of a ds3 or dd1.

It isn't statisically more likely that you'll have 3 of the same. I was explained this by a scienctist. Don't make me try and explain it though!

I was totally convinced I was having a third ds, went into the scan pretty much at peace with the fact it was a boy, took my 2 gorgeous boys too to meet their new brother and it was a girl!

I'm 30 weeks and all I can say is you do quickly get a bit bored with the outfits.

Personally It's all about the personality... Having 3 of the same doesn't equal 3 of the same Iyswim? I'm a little nervous to be honest about how a girl will fit in however I do sympathise with you. Before I knew dc3 was a girl I had such a longing that I thought wouldn't go away but now I realise that that's a bit silly really because we can't hope that our children will fulfil us.

Bit of a ramble, sorry. Oh and as for bump shape I'm the same as before but I was a lot more sick in the early days and have had really dry skin on my body!

And one last thing, I think you have to be a pretty cool mum to have 3 boys :)

Iv got 2 boys and currently 28 weeks although the sonographer couldnt be sure if i was having another boy or a girl! will find out on monday for sure when i have another scan and im not bothered either way. A little girl would be nice but another boy just as good and would love them the same either way:)
i actually think its a girl totally different pregnancy from last 2 but you never know i could be wrong lol x

I have 2 lovely boys and am expecting a girl. Its chance at the end of the day.

On a different note, its really annoying when people hijack a thread gettting the hump with another poster and turns it into a silly spat. Gets right on my tits! buttonmoon is right - chill the hell out!