s/o How many of all one gender have YOU heard of?

[MamaBearTeacher]

my great-grandmother had 5 boys and then 5 girls in this order:

 

BBBBBGGGGG

 

isn't that funny?

[Murphy101]

My mother's mom had 12, only the last two were boys.

 

Saw some couple on tv a few years ago that had 10 sons and no girls.

[KatieH]

We have friends with 6 boys. They each had one boy from their first marriages, and then 4 boys together.

 

I have a friend from my homeschool co-op who had 6 girls, and then a boy.

 

When I was a kid, my elementary school's janitor was one of 13 boys.

[cin]

I know a family who has 8 boys and a family who has 9 kids; the first was a boy, the rest are ALL Girls.

[DawnM]

My dad is one of 5 boys. No girls.

[Farrar]

I just wanted to reiterate the idea that someone else said that your odds of having a boy or a girl each time do not change (I know there's now some evidence that suggests that things like pH levels and so forth can effect the outcome as well, but other than that...). So it *seems* like after a certain number of one gender, you should get another gender, but it's actually not any different than your chances the first time. I read an article awhile back about how our natural inability to understand this type of statistical problem (even statisticians get this sort of thing wrong on first glance a lot!) is one of the things that may have helped us when we were first evolving and fighting for survival, but probably hinders us in making decisions in the modern world. So weird.

[Desert Rat]

My dad is one of 6 boys. However, I think my grandmother did give birth to 2 stillborn girls, one between the eldest 2 and one between the 2nd and 3rd. She died when my dad was 10 (in childbirth), so the details are a bit sketchy.

[mommaduck]

I knew a family where the first 10 were boys, 11th was a girl, 12th-14th were boys.

[Liz CA]

MIL had 5 boys and quit trying after that. She also had a miscarriage somewhere between the 3rd and the 4th boy - it was a girl.

 

[Stacie]

My mother is one of nine girls, no boys. Only one of those girls had children of mixed genders. One had no children, and the others had either all boys or all girls.

 

My husband is one of five boys, no girls. I have four boys. Only one of my hubby's brothers has a girl. All other offspring are boys.

 

My high risk specialist who took me through my last two pregnancies explained that as a general rule the odds are 50/50. However, some families have a strong predisposition to one gender or another. He smiled and told me to have more if I wish, but I probably shouldn't buy pink!

Edited December 19, 2010 by Stacie

[k2bdeutmeyer]

My MIL is one of 10 children. 9 girls, 1 boy.

[rafiki]

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[gingersmom]

I know of a family with 5 girls.

 

One of those daughters had a family with 6 boys and one daughter had a family with 4 girls plus one granddaughter.

[CarrieF]

After having 3 boys I felt very similar to what you are feeling just two short years ago. I don't know where you stand or what your beliefs are, but for my husband and me it was a matter of trusting God to know our hearts and to give us what was in His will for our family. I was so very honest with Him about my desire to have a daughter and I confessed that I DID do the research on how to increase chances of conceiving a girl, but the bottomline was did I trust the Lord? I recognized that no matter what we did (ha! ha!) to try to have a girl, God COULD give us a boy, but I am humbled and joyful to report that He blessed us with a girl. Entrust your heart to Him and know that He never gives more than we can bear and He loves us and WANTS to give us our hearts' desires. Praying for you to be blessed! : )

[Aubrey]

I've read that male/female sperm behave differently. The males swim faster but die faster; females swim slower & live longer. So, theoretically, if you were to wait until the end of your fertile cycle to conceive, you'd have higher odds of having a boy. Earlier in the cycle, by the time you ovulate, the boys would have died, & the girls would be all that's left.

 

Fwiw, neither of my boys were planned. My girls were, & the above would be a reasonable explanation of why we had ea gender when we did. I don't know how conclusive all of this is, but interesting food for thought, esp if you're looking at #6 of one gender. ;)

[Susan in TX]

My parents had 5 boys and then me. My Mom's best friend had 10 boys. We have 8 girls and 1 boy. Our boy is right in the middle with 4 older sisters and 4 younger.

 

Susan in TX

[Alphabetika]

There used to be a family in our local homeschool music program that had nine boys and two girls.

[snipsnsnailsx5]

my great-grandmother had 5 boys and then 5 girls in this order:

 

BBBBBGGGGG

 

isn't that funny?

 

That is interesting!

 

So we have five boys, as I said. But Dh's brother has four girls. So MIL has 9 grandchildren but all her boy grandkids are from one son and all her girl grandkids are from the other. lol

[JVA]

We know two families nearby with 6 kids:

 

One family has 6 girls

 

The other has 6 boys.

[snipsnsnailsx5]

After having 3 boys I felt very similar to what you are feeling just two short years ago. I don't know where you stand or what your beliefs are, but for my husband and me it was a matter of trusting God to know our hearts and to give us what was in His will for our family. I was so very honest with Him about my desire to have a daughter and I confessed that I DID do the research on how to increase chances of conceiving a girl, but the bottomline was did I trust the Lord? I recognized that no matter what we did (ha! ha!) to try to have a girl, God COULD give us a boy, but I am humbled and joyful to report that He blessed us with a girl. Entrust your heart to Him and know that He never gives more than we can bear and He loves us and WANTS to give us our hearts' desires. Praying for you to be blessed! : )

 

That's a great way to think. Thank's for your post! :) And congrats on your little girl. :) Congrats on ALL the children you were blessed with. :)

[angela in ohio]

I know a family with 2 boys, then 7 girls, then another boy.

[KidsHappen]

My hubby has six dds. I have one boy and five dds.

[Hannah C.]

I'm the oldest of nine, and I have one brother. He's the middle child. :D

 

The Osmonds had ten kids (including Donny and Marie), nine of whom were boys. I was on IMDB one day and decided to look and see if the Osmond boys had more boys than girls, too, and from what I recall they did.

[Caitilin]

I just wanted to reiterate the idea that someone else said that your odds of having a boy or a girl each time do not change (I know there's now some evidence that suggests that things like pH levels and so forth can effect the outcome as well, but other than that...). So it *seems* like after a certain number of one gender, you should get another gender, but it's actually not any different than your chances the first time. I read an article awhile back about how our natural inability to understand this type of statistical problem (even statisticians get this sort of thing wrong on first glance a lot!) is one of the things that may have helped us when we were first evolving and fighting for survival, but probably hinders us in making decisions in the modern world. So weird.

 

Minor hijack:

My sister told me about this--she read about it in one of her stats classes in grad school. Apparently, RATS are better at this than people:glare:...isn't that strange? :lol:

[C_l_e_0..Q_c]

My FIL is one of 9 children -- all boys.

His father was one of 12 -- all boys.

His father's father was one of 22 -- all boys.

 

 

Ok, that beats us.

 

DH is one of 5 boys, no girls. But he's also from a family where all cousins are boys. His dad only had brothers, and so did his grampa. We don't know any further back.

 

So for at least 3 generations, no girls were born into DH's family. Not a single one.

 

Our first born is a boy, we were so not surprised. And then DH's brother got a girl! Soon followed by our second child, also a girl! We don't know what got into the water for us to have two girls so close together!

[indigomama]

A friend was trying to heal a UTI and was taking baths with vinegar. She very unexpectedly got pregnant, 5th child 1st girl.

 

Well, I had a UTI and used the vinegar in baths too, very unexpected pregnancy 4th child 1st girl.

 

Could be coincidence but my friend swears it was the vinegar that checged the PH.

[yellowperch]

Reading this thread is making me want to have another baby. Actually, everything these days makes me want another baby.

 

I thought I'd link to this old NYTimes Lives column by an old friend of mine. Some of you might get a kick out of it.

 

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C05E7D81131F931A35752C1A9659C8B63&scp=1&sq=sperm%20spinning%20basketball&st=cse

[AndyJoy]

A man at my church is the youngest in his family with 7 older sisters.

 

I read the blog of a family with 11 children. The first 8 are girls, then they had a boy, a girl, and a 2nd boy (so far!).

[SABE]

A friend of mine has ten children. The first two are boys, then eight girls in a row.

[snipsnsnailsx5]

A friend was trying to heal a UTI and was taking baths with vinegar. She very unexpectedly got pregnant, 5th child 1st girl.

 

Well, I had a UTI and used the vinegar in baths too, very unexpected pregnancy 4th child 1st girl.

 

Could be coincidence but my friend swears it was the vinegar that checged the PH.

 

WHen I was doing gender "swaying" research, one of the methods to "sway" is using vinegar. So there is some merit to it, maybe!

[HLDoll]

My son's cardiologist (easily in his late 60s) said he grew up near a family that had 12 girls. They kept trying for a boy, but it never happened. Can you imagine?????