Not Science, But…
Posted by Arwen Mosher in Family on Thursday, October 28, 2010 6:28 PM
As of Monday I was six weeks pregnant. It’ll be months until we find out the sex of our baby but I’ve already predicted the sex: girl.
This is not at all scientific, but here’s my “evidence.” During my pregnancy with Camilla, I got hit with all-consuming nausea at 6 weeks and didn’t feel much better until about 18. With Blaise, I didn’t even figure out I was pregnant until 7 weeks, the nausea was mild, and I was doing better by 14 weeks.
As far as I know there’s no physiological reason why pregnancy symptoms should be more or less severe depending on the sex of the baby, but I’m not the only one who’s experienced it. I know a mother of eight - four boys, four girls - who swears all of her girl pregnancies were much “worse” than her boy ones. She says by the time she had her later babies, she could predict their sex quite early based only on her symptoms.
With my current pregnancy, it makes me laugh to imagine I could possibly miss the fact that I was pregnant while feeling this way. But I was still unaware of tiny Blaise at this point in my pregnancy with him! At the time I guessed that having a toddler to distract me helped me ignore the nausea more effectively, but this time I’ve got a preschooler AND a toddler to provide distraction and it doesn’t seem to be moving me to some blissful mind-over-matter state.
Of course it’s entirely possible that there are any number of other factors making the difference, and if February’s ultrasound shows that we’re having a boy, my theory will be proved wrong. But as of right now, this pregnancy is so much like my first that I’m sticking to my “girl” prediction. I know it’s not scientific, but it seems right to me.
For those of you who’ve been through multiple pregnancies, I’m curious - have your symptoms varied by pregnancy? Has it correlated with the sex of the baby or with any other factors? I’d love some more anecdotal “evidence” for or against my theory!
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