I HAVE 5 GIRLS AND THE 6TH ONE IS...........drum roll

[Fitter]

Congrats!

[yellowitchgrl]

6 pregnancies, 6 boys so I'm right there with you in the 3%

[UVASahm]

Originally Posted by NotLad congratulations Funny story to make feel better.... Friend of mine had four girls and her husband begged her to have one more just to see if they would have a boy. This went on for a year until she gave in. So she's pregnant .... Surprise! It's spontaneous triplets! Surprise again! All three are girls

This is the scariest thing I have heard in awhile...her doctor must be flipping his/her s***.

[Palooka]

Originally Posted by NotLad congratulations Funny story to make feel better.... Friend of mine had four girls and her husband begged her to have one more just to see if they would have a boy. This went on for a year until she gave in. So she's pregnant .... Surprise! It's spontaneous triplets! Surprise again! All three are girls

If this were on a TV show I would accuse it of jumping the shark. Crazy! My friend wanted 3 kids and her husband wanted just two, so he kept saying that after she gets pregnant with #2 he would go get snipped. She ended up getting pregnant with twins. Guess you can't stop a determined woman!

And the way you get to 3% is assuming that every time you get pregnant there is a 50/50 chance for either sex, like a coin toss. But I don't think that's necessarily the case, since some men produce more of one kind of sperm than another, and the woman's body can influence which sperm make it to fertilize the egg. So I'm with a PP who said you might be more likely to have more of a certain sex if you already have many, because it might indicate biological factors helping to select for that sex. KWIM?

Congratulations on another beautiful daughter OP!

[ummsmiley]

Thanks everyone! That triplet story made me choke on my cream soda! Lol..... That's bananas!

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[khbordelon]

Originally Posted by Fishie Kisses I had hear the opposite...that the more you have if a certain gender the higher the chance to have another. I like your stats better. I have 3 boys and we are only having one more baby...I really love a girl!

I have heard that too. Like if you have 2 boys, you are more likely to have a third boy than a girl. That is why my sis is not having a third kid. She has 2 boys and is convinced she'll have a third if they try!

[mom2jirms]

My mom had 6 girls. Congrats!

[KiltedKingdom]

DH and I had 6 boys in a row before we got a girl.

DH's mom had 2 boys then 8 girls in a row before getting another boy. We used to tell everyone that because he had so many girls, we had to have boys to even things out.

[lizgrace07]

Originally Posted by AtLeast Aw, way to shake up the stats! We have some friends with 6 girls, it provides a good comeback to the "dontcha know how that happens?" comment. She'll say, "well, we sure know how to do it for a girl, but if you could tell me how to do it for a boy, that'd be great.".

Lol! Nobody has ever made the "don't you know how that happens" comment to me, but now I sort of hope they do so I can use that response! We have three boys and a fourth boy coming in May/June.

[FernHollow]

Congrats mama! I always thought I would have girls, but ended up having 1 girl followed by 4 boys! We are hoping for one more baby to complete our family and have just assumed it would be another boy. I would be so shocked if we actually got another girl. We joke that our dd was probably dh's one and only X swimmer