When you were pregnant with your boy vs when you were pregnant with your girl - how did your pregnancies differ? Could you tell a difference and think it was gender related? :-)
First and second pregnancies were totally different. Baby's positioning was different, weight gain and where the weight was gained was different. Everyone knew baby #2 was a boy because of the way I carried. Nope was another girl.
All my pregnancies were so different and i carried each one different, and I had three boys! So I would say I don't think it's a real thing that boy/girl pregnancies are different!
4 pregnancies, all boys, most were different from one another.
I would have answered emphatically YES!, until my last pregnancy, when, after 3 boys and 1 girl, I was SURE this pregnancy was so different and JUST like my girl pregnancy...alas, another little boy to join our family :)
So, no pattern here.
I was convinced my second was a girl because the pregnancy was so different. Nope, another boy!
According to my Aunt (she has 8 including one set of twin girls), there's no telling from how you feel during pregnancy if you'll have a boy or a girl.
The only pregnancy that was significantly different for her was the twins but that was because things were so much more crowded with growing 2 at once.
2 boys and 2 girls. Each pregnancy was different. No gender patterns.
My first boy was different from my girls and from my second boy, or to put it another way all four of my pregnancies were different so I do not feel there is any gender correlation.
I was sick as a dog with my son, with my girls, just constantly nauseous, without all the vomit. I carried them all the same.
I have boy,boy,girl, boy......NO DIFFERENCE .except I craved pickles with my boys :)
My third pregnancy and my fifth pregnancy were nearly identical. My third was my one and only daughter; the fifth was another boy. So, no, I don't think it's gender related. I was huge with my first and third (boy and girl), small with the other three (all boys). I had moderate morning sickness with one, two, and three, various cravings with 1-4, no morning sickness with five and no cravings with five. I carried the same with all of them.
No difference for me.
I had a girl, then a boy.
BOTH of which I had BAD morning sickness and migraines and with both, I carried outward and HUGE.
People tried to predict what gender I had by the shape of my tummy.
And they were wrong.
They were all the same from beginning to end-miserable.
I know some friends can tell, or maybe it's mothers intuition, but I wasn't one of those woman.
Both of mine were the same in that if the baby was allergic to a food then I couldn't eat it while pregnant. I could count on both hands the days I didn't throw up between the two pregnancies. I was never hospitalized, mostly because my doctor said that it was all a normal part of pregnancy.
The biggest differences I noticed were that I could eat white cheeses but no dairy with my daughter and no cheese or dairy at all with my son. I could eat a few raw veggies with my son, but not my daughter.
The way I knew it was probably a boy the second time was that I craved jalapeno poppers all the time. I don't eat spicy food, I mean bbq sauce is often too spicy for me! I ate so many poppers my husband loved it! But, now I only eat spicy food a little bit, but it is more than I used to.
I carried the same both times, but the second was bigger so I gained more weight in the last 3 weeks, which was when I gained weight the first time as well.
So, to answer your question, yes, they were different, but not significantly so. I still threw up multiple times a day and had sciatica, and waddled from about 4 or 5 months on. So worth each one!
Very sick, very huge with all three no matter the sex.
I've been pregnant 4 times and have 3 children with one miscarriage at 8 weeks. First 2 kids are boys, my third is a girl.
All 4 pregnancies were completely different. The one I felt the least pregnant was the one I miscarried, that's probably why of course. My second kids was the easiest pregnancy of all of them. There were time where if it weren't for the belly I wouldn't think I was pregnant. It was also the one I recovered from the fastest.
My first child was the next "easiest". But his had some pretty good discomforts.
My third child. Oh man. I had to remind myself was going to get a beautiful child out of it and it wasn't going to last forever and I could make it to the end every single day of that pregnancy practically. I was sick as a dog. It was so hard to do anything. My recovery was the most different after she was born too. But yet, I was the most stubborn during and after her pregnancy. We had a number of extremely stressful things happening at the same time which I don't think helped.
I don't know if it had anything to do with which genders so much as what was going on in my life, what shape I was in etc though.
With my boys :
VERY sick had hyperemisis gravidarum and was in the hospital many times for severe morning sickness.
I craved milk, cheese, eggs, and meat---all of which are things I don't normally like.
With my girl :
VERY sick with the HG again and in hospital but cravings were :
dark spinich, fruits and veggies and NO sweet stuff.
Hope this helps! Also I carried really low with boys and my girl was much higher -
My pregnancies were all different, and I have two girls and 1 boy. I don't think there was a correlation at all.
I have a girl and two boys. I felt pretty much the same each time.
I have a friend that was sicker than a dog with her two boys, and only moderately sick with her two girls. She knew her 4th was the second boy she hoped for just by the way she was feeling!
I have a boy and a girl. The pregnancies were very similar, both the way I carried and the way I felt.
In my experience, and in observation of other friends and family: when pregnant with a boy, you tend to have a big ball in your front (looks like you swallowed a basketball/or beachball) and when you are pregnant with a girl, the belly and weight seems to be more spreadout. Obviously someone that is already bigger or has excess weight, it may be harder to tell which way they are "carrying" but this has been our experiences.
We even had a neighbor who was told "girl" after her ultrasound. Her family said she looked like she was carrying a girl even before and after that. They bought all pink stuff. We told her that we thought she was having a boy because she was all to the front and looked like a ball was in there. She delivered a healthy baby boy...she now says she will never doubt us again.
I was fortunate that I had no morning sickness with either pregancy so that couldn't be based on "gender". I did have back labor with my son (because of how he was laying) and I know that my two cousins had back labor with their boys (not sure how they layed though). I also had an easier pregnancy with my son (all around felt better, no GD, no extra trips to the hospital only to be sent home, no epidural) but then again I was 19 when I had him and was 34 when I had my daughter (epidural didn't work and I felt worse than without it with my son). Again, I don't think that was gender related though.
Two very different pregnancies, and two very different boys. :)
