Different experiences = diff genders?
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Topic: Different experiences = diff genders?
Posted By: emz
Subject: Different experiences = diff genders?
Date Posted: 21 January 2009 at 1:47pm
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Just wondering if you found this with your 2nd and subsequent pregnancies?
With #1 I had MS but as long as I ate constantly, I was OK and didn't vomit. I gained about 4kg in the first trimester, and 30kg all up (15-20 of that was fluid thank god). With this one, I have worse MS and migraines (could have something to do with a horrible teething child lol) but I have vomitted and I can't eat anything. I've lost 5kg in the last 4-5 weeks and am constantly feeling faint etc. So I was just wondering, if you had different experiences and ended up with different genders, or was it just every pregnancy being unique? Everyone keeps telling me I'm having a girl because of how different it is this time around. |
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Posted By: MrsMojo
Date Posted: 21 January 2009 at 1:52pm
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I think every pregnancy is just unique. My older sister had an easy preg with #1 and was violently sick with #'s 2 & 3 and she has 3 boys. -------------  
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Posted By: fattartsrock
Date Posted: 21 January 2009 at 2:04pm
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I had vastly different expereinces with both mine, however the one constant was the all day sickness, however, it had gone by week 20 with Jake but went the whole 42 weeks with charlotte. I lost weight both times and it was definately worse with char, although things felt worse in general becasue I caught every bug going and was very generally worn out and run down, so it may have been that rather than pregnancy per se. With a toddler it's hard to get the rest you need, and my dad was in his end stages of life and I was working too, so it was pretty stressfull.
I didn't carry any differently, tho. The OB GYN told me she thought I was probably having a girl as the chronic m/s is often a sign of a girl from all the extra oestrogen, I also had ante natal depression, which the extra oestrogen can aggrivate as well (although life was fairly stressfull for me anyway, so it may not have been girl baby related) I had had a scan at the hospice the day before and had found out it was a girl, so she was right. That said tho, every pregancy is a different baby and should be treated as so and everyone has different expereinces with their second and subsquent pregnancies. Mine was different, and maybe the girl hormones played a part in the extra bad m/s, ante natal depression and tiredness, but alot of that was probably stress too. What a ramble! Good luck, tho and I hope you feel better soon. ------------- The Honest Un PC Parent of 2, usually stuck in the naughty corner! :P |
Posted By: jack_&_charli
Date Posted: 21 January 2009 at 4:48pm
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i was sicker with charli than i was with jack.......but i had an office 'sit on your bum' job while carrying jack and didn't have another toddler to look after.
also, i wore seabands with jack and not charli, so that's what i put it down too. i can't really compare my 2 pregnancies though...i felt different all the way along (despite my belly looking exactly the same) but that's probably because jack was always breech and charli wasn't. ------------- http://www.alternatickers.com"> 
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Posted By: tamrib
Date Posted: 21 January 2009 at 8:24pm
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I was way sicker with my singleton girl than I am with my identical twiin girls.
Definitely different pregnancies, but all babies are same gender. FWIW, two of my close friends had awful pregnancies with terrible sickness. One had a girl and one had a boy. I think it's just the pregnancy and has nothing to do with gender. |
Posted By: pomikiwi
Date Posted: 21 January 2009 at 9:36pm
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I dont know what this bub is yet, and the only real difference is that I was sicker with this one. I'm carrying slightly bigger this time, but that could be because its a 2nd baby? Who knows.
My friend was real sick with her 2nd and lost heaps of weight as she vomited alot. She had 2 boys! ------------- http://lilypie.com">  
DD-Carys Amelia 17.03.06 |
Posted By: Rachael21
Date Posted: 21 January 2009 at 11:38pm
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Yeah I was sicker with Caprece but as others have said its possibly more to do with the fact I had a toddler to look after and didn't really eat too well.
Both my pregnancies were quite different overall but who knows if that was because of their sexes or not. |
Posted By: Shezamumof3
Date Posted: 22 January 2009 at 8:22am
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Emz, I wondering the same thing.
With Caden I was sick as, vomited a few times, gagged and dry retched A LOT and I craved salty and sour things. I didnt have sore boobs and I had bad headaches. With this one, Ive had very mild MS, Im craving sweet things and drinking chocolate milk like its going to go out of stock forever, Ive had no headaches and Ive got sore boobs lol Polar oppersites!!! Im thinking this one is PINK, well i hope its pink, but if we have another boy we will be happy aswell. But I would like one of each, cos we dont really want anymore...at this stage. ------------- |
Posted By: Nikki
Date Posted: 22 January 2009 at 8:41am
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I was wondering the same thing! Or more - if the pregnancies are quite similar, have you ended up with the opposite gender??
My pregnancy has been pretty similar to the first in terms of sickness and tiredness ... I've put on slightly less weight, but started off slightly heavier so I'm basically the same weight at this stage as I was with Jake. The only real difference is my boobs didn't start to grow til later this time (my doc put that down to already having BF'd). Really hoping its a girl this time, but i don't know if it feels "different" enough?!? ------------- DS (5yrs) and DD (3yrs) |
Posted By: jack_&_charli
Date Posted: 22 January 2009 at 1:56pm
you never know until they pop out........mine 2 felt the same. i did gain more weight with jack, but i was smaller to start with. after i had charli, i actually lost 10kgs  ------------- http://www.alternatickers.com">
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Nikki wrote:Posted By: queenbean
Date Posted: 22 January 2009 at 3:30pm
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My two pregnancies also felt exactly the same, horrible morning sickness with both until about 18 weeks, and one was a girl and the other a boy. Think its just random!!
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Posted By: rachelsea
Date Posted: 23 January 2009 at 9:11am
My friend had no morning sickness whatsoever with her first pregnancy. With her 2nd pregnancy she was vomiting from week 8 to week 18. Both are boys  ------------- DD 4yrs DS 2yrs http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: lilfatty
Date Posted: 23 January 2009 at 11:02am
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I seem to be having different pregnancies .. but I dont know if it has something to do with womble being a boy.
My placenta is in the front this time though ... so I blame alot of the "differences" on that. ------------- Mummy to Issy (3) and Elias (18 months) I did it .. 41 kgs gone! From flab to fab in under a year  http://www.femininefitness.co.nz/category/blog - LFs weight blog
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