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If you have a boy and a girl, how different were your pregnancies?

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Heatherbell1978 · 06/10/2016 07:37

I'm 19 wks pregnant and have my 20w scan next week. We're going to find out the sex and have no preference but we're both playing a bit of a game of guessing at the moment! DS1 is 2 and my pregnancy felt different. Mainly in terms of sickness which was every morning without fail and then stopped overnight at around 13w. This time round it's a lot more random and unpredictable (so less I reckon) but still here at 19w. So I'm guessing a girl. Of course I know it could easily be a boy but just wondering what your experiences were with the pregnancies!

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thatsn0tmyname · 08/10/2016 22:46

Very similar, slightly sicker with the second one (girl). It's harder second time round with a toddler in tow.

Mirandawest · 08/10/2016 22:50

I have DS and DD. Pregnancies pretty much the same. Was sick with both, bumps were similar.

Cuppaand2biscuits · 08/10/2016 22:51

With my daughter I felt sick but never actually was sick. With my son I was physically sick but didn't last for as many weeks as the nausea with my dd.
With my second pregnancy which was my son I had a huge sex drive, was so horny all the time. I didn't know I was having a boy until he was born but I thought I must be because I felt that way

marriednotdead · 08/10/2016 23:08

Very similar, just horrendous heartburn for most of pregnancy with DS. Oh, and hellish backache (turned out to be spine to spine).
Went off the same things, had similar cravings.

GlitterGlassEye · 09/10/2016 00:43

First dc was a boy, had a pot belly at full term & snapped back into a size 8 the day after. I was kind of fussy about a lot of foods before expecting but craved stuff I hadn't even tried before like prawns. Didn't even know I pregnant til I was 20 weeks gone (on the pill so slight bleeds every month). Straight forward, drug free labour. He was small at 5lb 9oz.

Dd1, I was still small but my face and boobs blew up (put 2 stones on by the end, fell off after a year) so I had an idea early on plus a lot of nausea. Another straight forward, drug free labour. She was 6lbs exactly.

Dd2, again massive veiny boobs and nausea but bled a lot (2 stones on again, still fighting it 2 years later) Thought there would be no baby at my first scan and there she was! Induced 2 weeks early due to small measurements. Straight forward, drug free labour. She was 5lb 4oz.

My babies were all small but ds is 13 now & same size as me (5ft 7) with size 9 feet so I know Im lucky for my easy (still massively painful, contractions the worst) deliveries. I asked screamed for drugs throughout each but got denied due to "being too soon", "oh too late" and apparently (the last birth) "aw you never complain".

Yes, yes I fucking did.

MamaMoose1 · 09/10/2016 09:25

With my two son's I was very spotty, craved iron-enriched foods and had awful heart burn, boobs were a lot bigger too, also had some nausea, but no sickness. With my daughter I was sick every morning for 12 weeks, but had no spots, my boobs stayed the same size too.

Hamsternaut · 09/10/2016 10:51

Definitely more spotty with the boys. With dd massively more sickness- I was throwing up before I'd even missed a period.

Zeitgei5t · 09/10/2016 20:55

First pregnancy morning sickness for a couple of hours each day for first trimester apart from that was one of those lucky ones that glowed.

Second pregnancy all day morning sickness that merged into bad reflux later on, horrible fatigue, SPD, the works.

Both girls

Callipygian · 09/10/2016 21:14

Acne and no nausea with my boy, no acne and lots of nausea with my girl.

Heatherbell1978 · 13/10/2016 07:22

Well thanks for all your replies. Goes to show there's no logical way of determining sex based on pregnancies!! But my intuition was right and it's a girl!

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