Pregnancy - Boys vs Girls

taggiesgirl

:rotfl: My 7 yr old son is a nightmare too!!!, he thinks he knows best and that he doesnt NEED to go to bed!
He does everything he can to get out of going to bed now including
'faking' injurys! lol!.:rotfl:

Snaggles

I had a bit of queasiness with my first pregnancy (a boy), but full-on 'can't move my head or I'll vomit' morning sickness with my second (expecting a girl according to scan). It went on for almost 6 months and was just horrible.

Not sure if it's because it's a girl this time, or if it's just a coincidence.

gooismeid

Someone once told me that clever children need less sleep. Not much of a consolation at 3am but there you are. I had the opposite to you becles - first one was a boy, I had pre-eclampsia, HELLP syndrome, morning sickness, anaemia, water retention, heartburn, the works. I spent 3 weeks in hospital! Second was a girl, no pregnancy problems except a mild obsession with strong Cheddar on dry crackers, and I was up and active the day she was born! Strangely enough I put on exactly the same amount of weight with both of them, which I'm still trying to get rid of. No. 1 son was 8 yesterday....

amazamum

taggiesgirl wrote: »

HIYA,

I had 2 boys (now 7 and 3 ) both had ok pregnancys, had morning sickness!, Then fell pregnant with a girl (now 8 months) and had no morning sickness but a crap pregnancy had vv down below,legs were covered in them. But thankfully they disapeared as soon as id had her!!.:rolleyes:

One thing no one did tell me was how loud little girls are she chats all day to herself and doesnt shut up!!:rotfl: my boys were never like this!! (ahh but wouldnt change her for the world):j

Also why dont little girls sleep??? both boys slept through night a 8 weeks, 8 months on dd still wont!!:rotfl:

good luck luv with the birth xx

I have a girl(7) sailed through when pregnant with her,had ms until 16 weeks,but nothing major and was actually going to work until 38 weeks preg,but she came along at 34 weeks so I was due at work the morning I had her,but she was all healthly,just small and there is no stopping her now,she is like a dynamo.She slept through from 8 weeks although I think that was due to her being"trained" while still in hospital for the first 3 weeks of her life.
My DS(nearly 3) on the other had I had MS until 20 weeks and bleeds at 10,18 & 28 weeks,the last of which the doc signed me on the sick until I had him at 37 weeks.
He was a nightmare for sleeping and up until about 4 months ago was still waking twice a night(did last night as he's been poorly).

It wouldn't stop me from having more children but at the moment that doesn't look like it's happening.

But I wouldn't swap them for the world they are lovely and even if I do say so myself are gorgeous.

good luck with the birth I hope all goes well

Spendless

taggiesgirl wrote: »

:rotfl: My 7 yr old son is a nightmare too!!!, he thinks he knows best and that he doesnt NEED to go to bed!
He does everything he can to get out of going to bed now including
'faking' injurys! lol!.:rotfl:

well we haven't got to faking injuries yet, thanks for that one I'll look out for it.:D A couple of hours after he'd gone to bed last night, we could still hear him and told him to go to sleep. Then this morning when I woke him , he said is it morning already that's come quick.:rolleyes:

Becles

Spendless wrote: »

I can't help wondering Becles if you are going to get a handful child or a doddle one.:D

The two boys are like chalk and cheese.

The eldest drove me up the wall wanting to know things. Everything had to be questioned and a full explanation given. Even things little children shouldn't notice, like wanting to know why the tide goes in and out at the beach while everyone else was happy building sandcastles!

The youngest was happy in his own little world. Give him a box of cars or a farm set or similar, and he was happy sitting on the floor playing for hours all by himself.

Now they are in junior school, the eldest is very intelligent with academic subjects like science, while the youngest is better at more creative things. Some of his stories are bizarre and I've no idea where he gets his thoughts from!

The youngest is more risky, starting from climbing out of his cot before he was a year old, and always favouing huge climbing frames in the park, while the eldest was quite scared of big climbing frames and prefered more sedate things like those animals on a big spring.

The eldest has always needed much less sleep than the youngest too.

missjennipenni

I had 2 girls, but both pregnancies were totally different! Had weird pains with the first, but no ravings or sickness (just a litlle faint at times0

the second, i couldnt eat enough oranges, felt sick all the time and couldnt stand the smell of clean washing! lol

Snaggles

I can relate to the clean washing - I couldn't bear the smell of certain soaps, shampoos, shower gels, bubble baths, washing up liquids etc etc.......ended up with unscented everything, and still hate the smell of most of them now (almost 9 months pregnant as we speak)

funky-footprints

with my son I threw up for 9 months, with my 1st daughter i threw up for 9 months. I had to take iron tablets for both.

with my 2nd daughter I had a pretty fab pregnancy (no iron tablets whoo hoo!) everthing was fine apart from the carpal tunnel.
x

black-saturn

I had 2 girls. With DD1 I had no morning sickness at all but had a really bad constant backache from about 3 months onwards and terrible heartburn constantly from about 6 months onwards.

With DD2 I had really bad morning sickness from the start to about 5 months but no backache or heartburn. But my feet and legs swelled up from about 7 months onwards and I ended up on the observation ward for the last 2 weeks because of it.

Because they were so different I was convinced the second must be a boy.

Maybe it's because your older this time Becles? It can't be easy being pregnant as you get older.